Consequently, manufacturers in the kitchenware space began to experience a steep increase in demand for cookware. And who can testify this better than Lodge Manufacturing Company—the oldest family-owned cookware company in the U.S.—whose orders shot up by an astounding 663 percent. The company had to ramp up its manufacturing and fulfillment to keep up with the demand. But depleted inventory wasn’t the only problem they faced. The sluggish generation of small parcel shipping labels proved the biggest hindrance to the fulfillment process, delaying shipments to customers. What they needed was smarter fulfillment!

Lodge found the answer with Techdinamics Integrations—a logistics and integrated supply chain management company. The cookware manufacturer switched to techSHIP, a label-generating and rate-shipping solution of Techdinamics. The company collaborated with Lodge’s WMS team to track the pain points and needs, starting from the front-end order integration to the final mile carrier selection process.

Based on the analysis, the two teams jointly developed a ‘proprietary blackbox’ using Techdinamics’ techSHIP solution. The end result was a drastic acceleration of the labeling and fulfillment process. The label generation was no longer an arduous and longwinded manual task. By just scanning a barcode or entering a batch number, the Lodge team was able to automatically process more than 1,000 labels all at once for its products. Not only was Lodge able to catch up with the fulfillment backlogs, but it also doubled the number of web orders. Increasing the label printing speed had been Lodge’s goal, but with techSHIP, it had achieved much more. Techdinamics also saved the company over 30,000 dollars in freight costs apart from reducing up to 93 percent of the label-generating expenses.

What Makes Techdinamics the Go-To Provider for Enhanced Fulfillment?

“Today, there are plenty of large enterprises providing robust technologies, but what mid-sized or even large businesses need is a smarter integration process that can connect the different technologies like WMS, TMS, and other systems, to facilitate a seamless fulfillment workflow,” says Edward Aguiar, CEO and CTO of Techdinamics Integrations. “We are the glue that brings together various technologies with our deep industry knowledge and expertise.”

The roots of Techdinamics can be traced back to 2016, when Aguiar was providing integration services for Fortune 500 companies through his firm, Dynamic Solutions. In the following years, Aguiar shifted his services toward the fulfillment sector, catering to small and medium sized companies. During one of his assignments, when he and his team were implementing a cross-dock system for a client, he met Reg Adams, another service provider working on the same project on the operations side.