SYSPRO Advanced Warehouse Management System
SYDNEY, Australia - January 22nd, 2008
SYSPRO’S Advanced Warehouse Management System
An effective warehouse management system (WMS) allows you to know exactly where in the warehouse any given item or quantity of items is located. For many, the costs associated with moving goods into storage, to the shop floor and back to dispatch stores, are significant. The speed, accuracy and efficiency with which this task is performed can impact directly upon the bottom line.
SYSPRO’s Advanced Warehouse Management System ensures that material is located correctly, delivered to the shop floor just-in-time, stored and then accurately picked for dispatch to the customer.
Powerful rules can be embedded to aid organisations that deliver to their customers on a just-in-time basis and/or have sequencing rules imposed upon the content of any given dispatch. For example in the automotive sector when stillages are delivered to track side several times daily. With real time control over raw materials usage and the associated costs the need for annual stock checks are eliminated.
SYSPRO WMS uses advanced workflow technology to model the warehouse environment and recommend actions based on a number of factors, including the capacity and zone of bin locations, the accessibility, volume and weight constraints of forklifts, and the physical warehouse environments and activity. For example AWM can be set up to perform very simple ‘chaos binning’ or sophisticated priority based zone binning with all levels in between.
Data Capture in a Warehouse Management System
There are a number of options for processing transactions within SYSPRO’s warehouse management system (WMS). As well as via desktop computers with or without touch screens, data can also be entered and queried using Radio Frequency (RF) devices such as hand held or forklift truck mounted devices with bar-code readers. Using RF data is updated instantly and is validated on-line ensuring the correct stock and containers are selected from the instructions.
Some examples of the transactions that can be recorded are:
• Put away from the receiving bay to main storage
• Bin movements within main storage
• Manual stock adjustments
• Confirmation details within the stock take system
• Bulk movement from storage to replenish pick face
• Bulk movements as part as a sales order pick from storage to
marshalling or dispatch
Bar-coding allows the accurate labelling of stock items and records inventory transactions utilising bar-coding validation at source, thereby removing the need for duplication of data capture. Bar-codes can be captured using desktop, touch screen, radio frequency and batch scanners for all transaction types.
By capturing transactions at source, accuracy of stock information is ensured. Operators can pick against a pick list, in conjunction with bar-code scanning, removing the problems typically associated with dispatch errors.
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