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A warehouse management system (WMS) includes functionality for automation of inventory receiving and putaway, order picking and packing, shipping management, inventory tracking, warehouse navigation for workers, warehouse labor planning, and more. Custom WMS can help manage warehouse operations of any scale, from a single to multiple warehouses spread across the country or worldwide.
WMS integrates with ERP, order management software, product information management software, shipping carriers’, and other systems.
Inventory receiving and putaway
- Item identification and verification against purchase orders with barcode or RFID technology.
- Flagging of items that require inspection by QA specialists.
- Automated generation of identification labels (for goods, pallets, etc.).
- Goods storage recommendations (based on factors relevant to particular items, e.g., size, fragility, expiration date, demand forecasts).
- Support of the cross-docking practice (the system notifies workers when goods have to be taken from a receiving zone directly to a shipping zone).
Order picking and packing
- Order prioritization, grouping and scheduling for fulfillment (e.g., wave planning).
- Setup of picking rules to guide pickers.
- Automated pick and packing list generation.
- Batch order picking (calculating routes to pick multiple orders in a single go).
- Packing recommendations (the system suggests the type and amount of packaging needed for each order).
- Order splitting in several packages (in case its size and weight are too large).
Inventory control and tracking
- Real-time monitoring of inventory levels with barcode or RFID technology.
- Setup of stock rotation rules (e.g., FIFO or FEFO).
- Lot and serial number tracking.
- Expiration dates and shelf life monitoring.
- Inventory transfer requesting and tracking.
- Cycle count planning, scheduling and assignment to personnel.
- Inventory location identification (e.g., to find inventory for carrying out cycle counts or collecting orders).
Shipping management
- Shipments scheduling.
- Shipping time and rates calculation (via integration with shipping carriers’ systems).
- Orders merging into a single shipment (for the same-address shipments).
- Shipments history.
Reverse logistics processing
- Automated inventory return routing (to a fitting warehouse).
- Return order tracking.
- Flagging of returned inventory for further processing (e.g., for a QA check).
Labor management
- Labor planning (calculating resource requirements for order fulfillment at a certain time interval and allocating them accordingly).
- Dynamic task assignment (automated suggestions on the next available task for warehouse workers based on a procurement and shipping schedule).
- Task interleaving.
- Labor performance monitoring against pre-defined KPIs, such as the number of products picked, picking time, etc.
Analytics and reporting
- Configurable dashboards with an overview of warehouse operations for warehouse managers and supervisors.
- Automated report generation for warehouse managers and specialists (inventory on hand reports, labor resource utilization reports, inventory return reports, etc.).
- Inventory demand forecasting.
- Multi-echelon inventory optimization.
- Labor demand forecasting (how many resources will be required for particular dates, warehouse zones and work tasks, based on a procurement and shipping schedule).
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