April/May 2006






SeayCo Integrators, Inc. has leveraged its experience in the liquor wholesale distribution business to develop Count-IT, a real-time inventory control system. With Count-IT you will have the tools to know your exact inventory, manage it, and conduct paperless inventory audits. Count-IT can help improve operations through increased warehouse efficiency, can improve productivity by increasing and tracking worker efficiency, and can assist with more efficient space utilization with intelligent product slotting and lot tracking. With real-time control, you can achieve first-in/first-out shipping, verify quantities ordered against those received, and track damaged product.



Count-IT, SeayCo's Inventory Control System, enabled Georgia Crown, a wine and spirits distributor in McDonough, Georgia, to replace four of their distribution centers and use their new 400,000 square foot warehouse with greater efficiency.

Prior to consolidation, Georgia Crown carried high amounts of inventory. SeayCo worked with Georgia Crown to provide a complete custom inventory and wave control software solution, integrated tightly with SeayCo PLC controls, scanners, RF network, and IT network. The resulting increases in efficiency and effectiveness have paid off handsomely in reductions in lost inventory and warehouse overheads.

Key benefits Georgia Crown realized from the Count-IT Solution include:

  • Increased efficiency and decrease in paperwork by directing personnel via RF networking.
  • Automated returns, put-aways and slot replenishment.
  • Increased accuracy and reduction in picker errors with slot and SKU positive scanning.
  • Tracking of shortages and overages with reports by location, item, and/or personnel.
  • Reduction in stock overhead.
  • Customized security access levels.
Georgia Crown's choice of Count-IT was complemented by their simultaneous implementation of SeayCo's Load-IT wave building system. According to Julian Vann, Georgia Crown's Vice President of Operations, "with the combination of Count-IT and Load-IT, SeayCo delivers a warehouse solution that really does provide superior receiving to shipping management."