Case study
Thai Summit
Auto Parts
Industry CO.,LTD.
At a glance Thai Summit Auto Parts Industry of the market, as well as fulfilling
Co., Ltd. and group of companies are customer satisfaction and requirements.
Industry: Automobile/parts manufacturing one of the major part manufacturers
Market: in Thailand for the automotive, With its rapidly expanding business, the
motorcycle, electrical appliance and Thai Summit Group needed an impeccable
Application: Finished Goods Barcode agricultural engine industries. tracking system to manage inventory and
and Raw Material Barcode raw materials with complete visibility.
With the leadership of President Pattana After comprehensive research and
Juangroongruangkit, Thai Summit Group evaluation, the Group determined that
grew continuously since its establishment a new barcode system would be ideal in
on March 16, 1977. Today, the group helping to trace, track and collect data from
comprises of 30 companies in parts the large quantities of finished goods and
manufacturing, including press parts, raw materials from its suppliers daily.
assembly parts, plastic injection parts,
plastic blow molding parts, aluminum die- Prior to implementing the Intermec barcode
casting, wiring harness, chassis, stamping system, Thai Summit Group relied on
dies, assembly jigs and tooling. The group its employees to track and collect data
has production facilities in Samutprakarn, manually, as high as 95% of the work.
Laem Chabang, Rayong, Ayudhya, This was due in part to the Group having
Nakornnayok and Malaysia. Total sales of used another competing barcode system
the group exceeds 20,000 Million Baht for which met with much resistance from
2005. Thai Summit Auto Parts Industry has the employees, resulting in its disuse.
sales of 6,000 Million baht for 2005 with a
current staff strength of 4,000 employees. However, after many rounds of reviews
with Intermec barcode system, Thai
Through partnership with its foreign Summit Group felt confident enough to
partners, Thai Summit Group is able to pilot the Intermec barcode system. The trial
increase production capacity to the fullest has turned out to be a wonderful experience
as well as achieving higher quality for for the company and the employees who
its new parts through new technology. put the Intermec barcode system through
Through technical assistance agreements its paces on the shop floor. The Intermec
with its foreign partners, the Thai Summit barcode system has rectified many shop
Group has gained technical knowledge floor problems (e.g. mistakes when entering
expertise, which in turn benefited the data manually) and most importantly,
Group in forging many joint-venture helped employees increase productivity and
businesses to further meet the demands in turn, improved the speed of operations.
Process or Finished Goods is ranked the
highest above all other processes. The
products are stationed at inventory stores
divided into seven areas in accordance to
the product types or OEM customers, such
as Isuzu, Mitsubishi, Toyota, or Nissan.
These stores use the barcode reader
Intermec Mobile Computer model 730 to
handle incoming and outgoing flows of
materials from the inventory. The PDA
Barcode Reader reads barcodes at the
TAG attached to the containers from
the Production Division, and transmits
material data wirelessly via WiFi Access
Points to the Database Server and
updated to the centralized ERP system.
The Group developed and implemented Product cards are installed on users’ reading the barcodes in Barcode Delivery
two Intermec barcode projects, namely computer terminals, and scanned with Sheets,” said Mr. Preecha Phuasuthi ,
the Finished Goods Barcode project the Intermec Scanner Model VT1800. Department Manager, ERP Project, Thai
and the Raw Material Barcode project. Summit Auto Parts Industry Co., Ltd.
Both projects utilize the Intermec The Raw Material Barcode project was “The Intermec barcode readers help us
Mobile Computer model 730 and then subsequently implemented to track minimize human errors, enhance data
Intermec Scanner model VT1800. the incoming raw materials from over integrity and accuracy, while speeding up
300 suppliers. Thai Summit Auto Parts our work processes. In fact, if the data
The barcode projects help keep track of uses Intermec Scanner Model VT1800 to checking program is properly designed, we
every transaction in the factory involving scan barcodes shown in Delivery Barcode can even skip the Visual Check process to
the flow of raw materials which can be Sheets attached to suppliers’ Tax Invoices just scanning by automated programs.”
divided into three parts, including Input for every shipment, to affirm the data in
Process, Work-in Process, and Output populated in previous purchase orders Thai Summit Auto Parts is already
Process. Currently, the Finished Goods submitted by the Group’s procurement planning to expand the barcode system
Barcode project which keeps track of the division. The correlated data is then to 10 companies of Thai Summit Group
Output Process for finished products sent to the backend ERP system. in the near future because the Intermec-
and the Raw Material Barcode project based barcode system in inventory and
which keeps track of the Input Process “We needed the barcode readers to be distribution management has dramatically
for incoming raw materials from over 300 highly durable and resistant to damage, reduced the human errors in data entry
suppliers, have both been successfully that can tolerate our tough factory process while enhancing the working speed
implemented. The Work-in Process environment. For all the competing and the data accuracy. With Intermec as
project is still in the phase of process offerings we have evaluated and a dedicated partner behind Thai Summit
design and defining controlling points. researched, Intermec can fulfill our Auto Parts, it can be envisaged that
demanding requirements with user-friendly Thai Summit Auto Parts will continue
The Finished Goods Barcode project and convenient products. Its Mobile to scale new heights in technical and
was the first phase of development and Computer Model 730 is ideal for non- production excellence, as well as growing
implementation for the Intermec Barcode portable products and urgent shipments, in step with its multitude of highly
System because the value of the Output while its Scanner Model VT1800 is ideal for successful automotive customers.
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