Faber Music in CILT Award for Innovation

Faber Music awarded for technical excellence with voice-directed warehouse management system

23 Oct 2009 - The Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport awarded one of the industry's highest accolades, the CILT Excellence Award, to Faber Music for its implementation of a voice direct picking system in its warehouse.

The award was won for clear returns seen by Faber.  Since deploying the solution Faber has increased order accuracy and cut delivery lead-times by 50%. In addition it has improved staff flexibility, productivity by over 35% and reduced errors to virtually zero.  It has also enabled its customer base to reduce their own inventory levels and reduced the time to market for new products. A full return on investment for the project was achieved within 13 months.

The project employed equipment supplied by Zetes Industries and is built on the Warehouse Management System supplied by Solarsoft Business Systems. The two IT suppliers worked together with Faber management to achieve a radical improvement in operations at the north London based distributer of sheet music.

Faber Music prints under its own imprint and also controls the European print rights to Warner Brothers Publications and EMI Music Publishing. Faber Music Distribution stocks in excess of 177,000 titles/SKUs and ships over 45,500 order lines per month to music retailers and wholesalers and to the public through its website www.expressprintmusic.com.