Trace™ | H.I. Giørtz

100% Inventory Accuracy with Trace™

Published by Synnøve Kjerstad

H.I. Giørtz is one of Norway’s most customer-oriented wholesale businesses and a key driver in the development of the value chain. The company supplies goods to the grocery and foodservice markets in Møre og Romsdal and Nordfjord. In partnership with ASKO, Norway’s leading wholesaler, H.I. Giørtz ensures secure access to a broad product assortment from both national and regional suppliers. In addition, the company is a significant player in retail, real estate, and technology.

Industry: Wholesale / Grocery and foodservice distribution

Challenges

H.I. Giørtz wanted to modernize its warehouse operations and create a solution that would support long-term scalability and operational resilience. The key objectives were to:

Enable competence development across the organization, reduce dependency on specific individuals, and simplify onboarding and training.
Achieve high inventory accuracy and full traceability throughout the entire value chain – from goods receipt to delivery to the end customer.
Gain system support for consolidation, more efficient and accurate goods receipt, and real-time visibility into inventory levels, production, and staffing needs.
Establish a more robust, efficient, and data-driven warehouse operation with better decision support and improved delivery precision.

Solution

Trace Warehouse Management System (WMS) fully integrated with other logistics software solutions from Solwr Software, enabling consistent data flow across warehouse and logistics processes.
All picking logic is managed in Trace WMS, which coordinates and assigns picking tasks to voice picking operators and a fleet of autonomous picking robots.
Trace WMS provides end‑to‑end warehouse process support, covering goods receipt, picking, consolidation, and outbound flows.

Benefits

Future-ready WMS with real-time insight

H.I. Giørtz modernized its warehouse operations with Trace WMS, an intuitive and future‑ready system that reduces dependency on individuals, simplifies training, and provides real-time operational insight. The result is a more robust, data-driven warehouse operation with full traceability across the value chain.

Reduced dependency through shared responsibility

Trace WMS ensures that warehouse knowledge and responsibility are distributed across multiple resources. This reduces operational vulnerability, strengthens continuity, and enables team leaders to manage daily operations more efficiently.

Full traceability and control across warehouse processes

With transaction-level traceability and integrated support for load optimization, H.I. Giørtz has achieved improved control, higher precision, and increased efficiency throughout the value chain.

More efficient goods receipt and faster onboarding

A more intuitive and transparent WMS significantly improves goods receipt operations, resulting in fewer errors, higher efficiency, and faster onboarding of new warehouse employees.

Optimized consolidation and load utilization

Real‑time visibility into load capacity and structured consolidation processes reduce unnecessary transport, improve vehicle fill rates, and ensure that outbound loads are fully prepared and verified before departure.

Real-time inventory accuracy

100%

Load carriers reduced through consolidation per year

10 000

Traceability across all transactions

100%

"Trace WMS has given us a completely new level of control and insight into our goods flow. Our employees experience greater mastery, and the seamless tracking provides full visibility across the entire warehouse.”