Casa Viva is a leading home decor retail chain that offers a wide range of products for the home. With more than 60 years of history, they distribute over 4,000 product references through their network of 45 stores across Spain and Andorra.
Casa Viva is part of the Gerplex group, which consists of more than 250 people working to find new products and solutions to meet home-related needs.
For Casa Viva, managing all its products and conducting inventories in its stores and warehouses required a significant investment in time, personnel, and equipment.
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Like all retail companies with stores and warehouses, Casa Viva manages a vast number of products. With App2U’s custom-made app, they now conduct inventories more quickly and cost-effectively, keeping full control over their product references.
Challenge
Casa Viva needed to perform inventories in the shortest possible time and in a much more cost-effective manner.
At that time, as a technology pioneer, Casa Viva had already explored alternatives to the slow manual inventory-taking process. That’s why they were using barcode scanners to carry out inventories in their various locations, including zones, stores, and warehouses.
However, Casa Viva believed their company could still improve its workflow with a technological solution that would further enhance efficiency:
1. Slow inventory-taking process. Employees still had to spend many workdays completing this task.
2. High cost of renting or purchasing barcode scanners. Even though this method sped up manual processes, it significantly increased the inventory budget.
3. Limited stock control. Due to the long and costly inventory-taking process, they conducted inventories infrequently to cut costs, which led to poor stock control.
Realizing that they could improve and streamline their operations, both for the company and its employees, they decided to contact App2U, experts in business applications.
Solution
After analyzing Casa Viva’s needs and requirements, App2U recommended developing and implementing a fully customized app that would allow them to perform inventories quickly.
1. Reducing inventory-taking time from days to seconds. Thanks to two simple steps: fast scanning using a mobile device’s camera and easy input of the product quantities in each location.
2. Implementation of iPod devices. We conducted extensive research to find the most cost-effective mobile device that met the app’s requirements: a built-in camera, speed and mobility, data security, and Wi-Fi connectivity.
3. Comprehensive stock control. The app’s ease of use and speed allow employees to conduct inventories more frequently, leading to much better control over products and references.
The implementation was quick and straightforward. App2U installed the customized application on all Casa Viva’s iPod devices, and in less than two weeks, employees were using it at full capacity. Since the app is easy and intuitive to use, it was seamlessly integrated into their daily workflow.
The application was tailored to the company to streamline the inventory-taking process, leveraging the mobility of iPods and the efficiency of the app itself. As a result, various product distribution companies, especially those in the home decor and furniture sectors, have recognized its potential and decided to implement the same app in their daily operations.
Result
Casa Viva has been using this application for about a year and has seen a significant improvement in its business. Thanks to the inventory management app, the company has achieved the following results:
Time, cost, and task savings by streamlining the inventory-taking process.
Fast product importation to the website. Products are uploaded quickly to the administration portal, where they are detailed for inventory tracking.
Inventories completed in seconds. The time required to perform an inventory has been reduced from days and weeks to just seconds and minutes.
Employees impressed by the scanning speed and ease of use of the app.
Simultaneous inventories in multiple locations. Inventories can be conducted across different zones, stores, and warehouses at the same time.
Permanent access to inventory history. Inventory records can be accessed from the app’s history section or the administration portal, where they can also be exported.
Acquisition of proprietary iPods: Affordable, mobile, and fast devices that meet the company’s needs.
Maximum security for products, inventories, and data with mobile iPods
Comprehensive control of company products. More frequent inventories result in better stock control.
Inventory comparison statistics. The administration portal provides comparative analytics.