Inbound management

Receiving processes support for scheduled and blind receipts, pre-receiving, put away and leveraging cross docking opportunities.

Overview

A warehouse management system (WMS) can provide your organization with the flexibility to support all types of receiving processes including receiving scheduled and blind receipts, prereceiving, put away and leveraging cross docking opportunities.

Improve labor planning and utilization Lower inventory carrying costs Maximize operational efficiency

WMS can enable you to adapt your receiving process to specific customer, product and facility requirements. Business process frameworks can enable warehouse staff to tailor receiving processes using a graphical process modeler, without IT involvement. Resource management capabilities allow you to plan and balance the labor resources required for your inbound plan. Some of the benefits can include:

Track received inventory against a PO, ASN, and/or blind receipts Configure putaway execution to be system directed or ad-hoc Leverage cross-docking opportunities Offer complete visibility into your inbound shipments Establish and measure labor standards and performance Provide condition-based processing for returns management

Outbound management
Coordinate the complete order fulfillment process from order-release and shipment routing through the grouping of shipments and wave planning.

Overview

A warehouse management system (WMS) can coordinate and optimize the complete order fulfillment process from order-release and shipment routing through the grouping of shipments and wave planning.

Improve order fulfillment rates Rapidly respond to customer specific shipping requirements Plan and balance labor against actual and forecast demand

WMS system can be deployed for many types of warehouse operations. From full pallet/loose case to high volume piece/pick/pack or automated material handling, these systems allow you to configure outbound fulfillment processes to satisfy your specific operational requirements. Some of the benefits can include:

Plan shipments to meet user-defined and economic shipping parameters Configurable wave planning and release schedule processes Support batch, order, and item pick processes Perform order pick tasks using voice technology Integrated parcel shipping solution with full delivery service and option support for all major carriers

Inventory management
Manages and allocates inventory ownership based on numerous criteria including client, customer, lot, serial number, shelf life and customer-defined attributes.

Overview

A warehouse management system (WMS) can enable you to manage and allocate inventory ownership based on numerous criteria including client, customer, lot, serial number, shelf life and customer-defined attributes.

Reduce inventory costs Optimize order line fulfillment and reduce safety stock Improve customer service and perfect order fulfillment rates

WMS provides you with a single comprehensive view of inventory across all of your warehouse locations. By presenting a view of available inventory and allowing you to manage it across your multiple locations in multiple types of facilities, you can reduce inventory levels without compromising customer service commitments.

Centrally manage your inventory across a network of facilities Track inventory against a PO, ASN, and/or blind receipts Provide rule based intelligence to source and fulfill orders at a line level Maintain your inventory accuracy with cycle and physical count Configure any size and operational style of your facilities

Value added services

Optimize business processes to support customer specific requirements

Overview

A warehouse management system (WMS) can allow you to create work orders so you can manage the quantity of work performed, inventory required and tasks associated with each work order. It provides your operational staff with the ability to rapidly respond to customer specific value-added services requests using the process driven by work orders.

Satisfy customers unique fulfillment requests Improve visibility to your costs associated with value-added services related to work orders Generate revenue from value-added service operations Create and manage work orders across facilities Track pre-pack and work order kits as unique inventory Capture labor and costs associated with work orders Manage light manufacturing operations Manage cross-facility and multi-step processes