B&C Speakers Success Story Video
Watch how B&C Speakers powered their logistics 5.0 innovation with Bossard’s SmartBin Cloud
Success Stories
The Winning Partnership Between Bossard and B&C Speakers
A leader in professional audio since 1946, B&C Speakers is now focusing on automation to ensure continuity and competitiveness. Learn more about our partnership.
Founded in Florence in 1946 as a manufacturer of microphones and megaphones, B&C Speakers has grown to become a world leader in the professional sound market. In the 1990s, the company experienced a real boom, consolidating its position thanks to the quality of its products and its capacity for innovation. But with growth came new challenges: ensuring production continuity and efficiently managing thousands of components.
The Challenge: Complexity and Risks of Manual Management
Before adopting Smart Factory Logistics, managing components was a manual and complex process. Mattia Borghi, head of the loudspeaker department, explains: "We stored fasteners in cardboard boxes with adhesive labels. Often, the stock recorded in the management system did not match the physical stock, which led to long production downtimes."
The problem was not only organizational; each downtime had a huge economic impact. "One of our loudspeakers had an average value of €97 every 30 seconds. A 15-minute downtime could be a significant loss for the company."
The Solution: Automation and Control
The choice of Bossard as a partner proved decisive for the success of the project. Andrea Pratesi, head of purchasing and supply chain at B&C Speakers, says that the introduction of SmartBin Cloud has really made a difference, especially for the purchasing department, which no longer has to manage individual components or manually monitor warehouse stocks. With the arrival of Smart Factory Logistics and the SmartBin system, the process has been completely revolutionized. B&C Speakers now benefits from:
- Labelled and coded scales, each with its own spot
- Automatic stock monitoring
- Automated reordering without manual intervention
Benefits for Purchasing: Efficiency and Peace of Mind
The benefits were immediate and tangible. There are no more stock-outs or machine downtime, inventories have been reduced and overall efficiency has increased. The daily work of the purchasing department has also become much more streamlined. At the beginning, during the first inventory, there was some concern, but Bossard's support made everything easy: it is no longer necessary to place orders for dozens of items, production no longer rushes and management is much smoother.
A Valuable Partnership
After years of collaboration, the verdict is unanimous: the partnership with Bossard has been appreciated even more thanks to the efficiency and security it guarantees. If B&C Speakers had to describe it in three words? Professional, reliable, innovative.
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