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How Tammer Brands got real-time visibility across a 20,000-product warehouse

Tammer Brands is a family-owned Finnish wholesaler carrying more than 20,000 products out of a single warehouse. As the catalog grew, the floor was still run on a stack of Excel sheets and disconnected programs, with no real-time view of what was actually happening. On Bitlog WMS, the whole warehouse now lives on one screen, and the picking work plans itself.

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famliy owned since
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brands under one roof
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Tammer Brands' team on trading a stack of Excel sheets for one live view of the warehouse on Bitlog WMS

Tiina Nygård, Chief Supply Chain Officer
Joni Viikki, Logistics Manager

“We had to take all the small orders, make them into one picking list manually.”

Joni Viikki Logistics Manager, Tammer Brands
About Tammer Brands

As Tammer's catalog grew, the manual warehouse ran out of room to see itself

Tammer Brands is a family-owned wholesale company founded in Tampere, Finland, in 1954. Over seven decades it has grown into a Northern European consumer-goods business, carrying more than 50 brands and over 20,000 products, from household essentials to everyday items, out of a single distribution warehouse.

That scale is the whole challenge: thousands of SKUs and a constant stream of orders heading to retailers across the region. The bigger the catalog got, the harder it was for anyone to hold the real state of the warehouse in a spreadsheet, or in their head.

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The challenges

A 20,000-SKU warehouse nobody could see

With the catalog growing and the floor still run by hand, the problem wasn't any single task. It was that no one had a live picture to work from.

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Scattered data

The warehouse ran on multiple Excel sheets and a set of disconnected programs. There was no single source of truth for stock or order status, so people spent their time reconciling systems instead of moving goods.

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No live view of the floor

Nobody could see what was happening in the warehouse in real time. Delays, print queues, and pileups only surfaced once they were already slowing the day down, which left managers reacting instead of steering.

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Day-to-day stitched by hand

Because the systems didn't talk, the work didn't either. Picking lists were built manually, one order at a time, through a separate sorting area. Every extra brand and SKU added more of that hand-work, not less.

The Solution

One system, real-time visibility across the whole floor

Tammer needed one reliable place to see what was happening in the warehouse, with stock, orders, and floor activity in a single real-time view. Bitlog WMS replaced spreadsheets with automated picking workflows and made the same information available wherever the team needed it.

Two things sealed it beyond the feature list:

  1. The interface was modern and easy to use, which matters when the whole team has to live in it every day.

  2. The relationship felt different. Tammer wanted a company that would listen and build, not a vendor that would hand over software and disappear.

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Key features

How Tammer Brand's warehouse runs on Bitlog

The parts that changed the day-to-day all point the same way: one live system that sees the floor and plans the work, instead of several that had to be reconciled by hand.

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Real-time visibility

One live view of stock and order status replaces the old spread of Excel sheets and separate programs, readable at a glance from a smartphone, computer or tablet wherever you are.

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Automated order grouping

The system pulls compatible orders together and plans the pick automatically, so nobody builds batch lists by hand anymore.

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Batch Picking

With the order grouping automated, pickers now clear up to 24 orders in a single pass instead of one at a time.

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Order Consolidation

Grouping orders headed to the same destination cuts the number of separate shipments and brings freight costs down.

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“Before, we could only pick one order at a time. Now, we can pick up to 24 orders.”

Joni Viikki Logistics Manager, Tammer Brands
Bitlog WMS

From reconciling systems to reading the floor

The hard part was never any one task. It was trust. When the real state of a 20,000-SKU warehouse lives across several Excel sheets and a handful of programs that don't talk, no single number can be relied on, so people spend their day cross-checking instead of deciding. The warehouse was busy, but it couldn't see itself.

Bitlog collapsed that into one live system. Stock, orders, and floor status now update in one place as the work happens, which means the picking can be grouped and planned automatically off data everyone trusts, and a manager can read the whole floor from a phone between meetings. The shift wasn't a faster version of the old way. It was going from reconstructing what happened to watching it happen, and steering from there.

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“What I really like is that I can see the status from my phone.”

Tiina Nygård
Tiina Nygård Chief Supply Chain Officer, Tammer Brands
The results

A warehouse run on spreadsheets no one could see. Not anymore.

Two shifts landed together. The warehouse became visible in real time, and the picking that runs on it got far more efficient — up to 24 orders gathered in one pick run, where before it was one order at a time.

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Family-owned since 1954

Tammer has run on trust and long relationships for seventy years. It chose Bitlog partly because the partnership felt the same way, a company that listens and builds, not a vendor that ships and leaves.

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50+ brands under one roof

Every brand adds SKUs, order patterns, and complexity. One real-time system now carries the whole catalog instead of a patchwork of Excel sheets and separate programs.

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20,000+ products on live system

With this many SKUs, a live view of stock and order status is the difference between planning the day and reacting to it. Managers now read the floor at a glance, even from a phone or tablet.

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1 to 24 orders per batch

Because grouping is automated trusted data, a single pass now clears up to 24 orders and consolidates their freight, work that used to be built by hand, one order at a time.

the wins

How did Bitlog WMS improve Tammer Brands' warehouse?

Bitlog WMS gave Tammer Brands something a spreadsheet never could: real-time warehouse visibility across a 20,000-product catalog. Where stock and order status once lived in disconnected Excel sheets that someone had to reconcile, the warehouse management system now holds a single live picture that managers can read from a phone.

That one change ripples outward. With trusted data underneath it, the system groups and plans the picking automatically, so the team clears up to 24 orders in a batch instead of one at a time, and consolidates the shipments that go with them to bring freight costs down.

For a growing B2B wholesaler, the payoff is headroom: Tammer can keep adding brands and products without adding the manual reconciliation that used to grow with them.

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A floor you can actually see

Real-time visibility, readable from a phone, replaced multiple Excel sheets and gave managers one live view of the warehouse to steer from.

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More throughput, no extra hands

Automated grouping and 24-order batch picking removed the manual, one-at-a-time sorting step that used to grow with every new brand.

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Lower freight cost

Consolidating orders bound for the same destination cut the number of separate shipments Tammer pays to send.

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