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Chen Works, LLC is the premium software designer in the Texas liquor distribution industry and serves the largest business customers such as Spec's and Goody Goody Liquor. We provide an enterprise-level, integrated platform for inventory management, picking, fulfillment, routing, and delivery.

We pride ourselves in providing highly-custom software that accommodates the unique requirements from clients' industry practices, data, legacy systems, and legal regulations. Our team of full-stack software engineers have designed virtually any software system demanded by the industry.

We regularly integrate with mainstream software systems such as Samsara (truck fleet management), Paycom (HR), Twilio (communication), and Mailgun (email) and hardware systems such as Rockwell Automation (industrial control), Cognex (machine vision), and Zebra (barcode scanning and mobile printing).

We work with TABC, a Texas agency governing alcohol sales.

We provide 24-hour tech support and have helped our clients achieve hundreds of millions in savings, regulatory compliance, and high levels of automation and digitalization.

We are based in Houston, Texas and has presence in Dallas, Texas and Orlando, Florida.

Product Offerings

Order picking system
- Scheduling, management, and monitoring of order picking
- Mobile-based, multi-order picking with intelligent routing
- Performance monitoring and evaluation
- Simultaneous inventory update such as re-slotting
- Auto-scheduling of employee breaks
- Integrated communication with inventory management staff and general management staff
- Handles manual allocation for specialty product
Order fulfillment system
- High throughput bottle-handling
- High speed product label application
- Machine vision-based product identification and sortation
- Shipping label application
- Scales for both high- and low-volume operations
Routing system
- Window-based business delivery
- Customizable based on customer (special delivery needs), order (size, packaging, etc.), product (size, perishability, temperature, etc.), truck (size, refrigeration, outsourced, etc.), and driver (availability, overtime, etc.)
- Integrated with mainstream map providers
Delivery system (POD)
- Vehicle inspection
- Flexible onsite order modification
- Signature and payment collection
- Anti-fraud feature
- Integrated with customer payment system
- Integrated with accounting
- Integrated communication with regional management staff
- Real-time monitoring of all trucks, drivers, and orders in delivery
Invoice generation and management system
Real-time, full-cycle order monitor system
- Provides ETA's
- Integrated communication with regional sales and management staff
Reporting system
- Full-coverage of all operations
- Provides super-length reports
- Generates critical business intelligence
- Meets legal regulations
Inventory management system
- Real-time tracking, updating, and checking of inventory
- Cycle count
- Transfer
- Purchasing
- Shelving and slotting
Enterprise-level configuration system
- Manages vendor, customer, employee, product, facility, and communication
- Highly flexible, customizable, and effective for managing all major aspects of the business
Asset management system
- Vehicles, containers, electronic devices, printers, etc.
Manager management system
- Schedules and manages daily tasks for managers: Check facility, check inventory, check employee performance, read reports, answer requests, etc.
PLC-based industrial control systems
- Order fulfillment
- Package sortation
- Machine vision
Various specialty software systems such as B2B e-commerce portal, vendor management, customer management, employee management, product management, and EDI (Electronic Data Interchange)
Robotic material-handling systems

Team

Our team consists of software developers, electrical engineers, robotics engineers, and project managers, each with over 10 years of experience from global companies such as Nokia, IBM, Citrix, Vitria, and Bastian and has executed multi-million dollar projects.