WHIZeCargo Warehouse Management System (WMS) is an
industrial-strength warehouse management software that empowers
companies to gain control over customer's service levels,
warehousing costs, order turnaround time, throughput volumes,
and most importantly, profit.
Businesses are often needlessly weighed down by poorly
managed inventory, causing frustration and leading to lost time
and revenue. WHIZeCargo WMS is a powerful execution system that
manages warehouse activities for order-of-magnitude improvements
in warehouse and inventory management.
WHIZeCargo WMS solution offers advanced warehouse management
functionality to manage even the most complex distribution
environments. This powerful WMS helps to ensure fast, accurate
fulfillment through directed, optimized workflow, utilizing the
most advanced wireless and bar code technologies, including
RFID. Containerization, wave planning and slotting drive further
efficiencies.
Features:
- WMS's state-of-the-art barcode or RFID
data collection
system runs on many popular portable data terminals (PDTs)
and PDAs, suitable for use in warehouses. These devices
support bar code and RFID reading, mobile computing and
wireless networking (WiFi)
- Location Master - Location is the place items are stored.
WHIZeCargo WMS provides flexibility to cope with any type of
warehouse and any type of stock. This system ensures
that WMS is able to work with practically any warehouse
configuration and can be tailored further to accommodate an
unusual situation.
- Cycle Counting - Cycle Counting is a necessary action in
inventory management. A cycle count is an inventory
management procedure where a small subset of inventory is
counted on any given day. Cycle counts contrast with
traditional physical inventory in that physical inventory
stops operation at a facility and all items are counted,
audited, and recounted at one time. Cycle counts are less
disruptive to daily operations, provide an ongoing measure
of inventory accuracy and procedure execution, and can be
tailored to focus on items with higher value or higher
movement.
- Inventory Moves & Transfers - With WHIZeCargo WMS, you
have the freedom of transferring items from one location to
another with an easy to use transaction interface. For
example, Receipt of Goods moves inventory from the receiving
dock ( the vendor) to stores. Invoicing (issuing) moves
inventory from your stores (the warehouse) to your customer.
These are the most common transactions. However, if your
company has intermediate locations (e.g., inspection and/or
quarantine, employee locations, vehicle locations, or
alternate locations, such as Warehouse #2), then Inventory
Transfer is used to move inventory to those locations. It
up-counts the transfer's To location and down-counts
inventory in the transfer's From location.
- Multiple Units of Measure - Defines one or many valid
units of measure for an item. Allowing you to track
inventory in any one of the defined units.
- Paperless Picking & Receiving - Receive new orders
into inventory or pick existing orders electronically,
without the use of a printed document.
- Staging - As a pick list is completed, the system directs
the picker to place the completed outbound containers in the
designated staging locations. The picker scans the outbound
container packaging-identifier and station bar code label to
confirm put away. Packing list per container can be
automatically printed at this time. The packing list are in
form of labels or paper.
- Cross Docking - In fast-moving industries such as consumer
goods, food, retail, drug and grocery, and others,
cross-docking is increasingly recognized as an indispensable
way to increase inventory speed and throughput.
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WMS cross-docking capabilities make it possible for
warehousing operations of all sorts to mobilize their
inventory by making sure that incoming loads are quickly
turned around as outbound ones, thus improving customer
service and effecting freight economies. Cross docking avoids
unnecessary holding costs, improves product availability,
helps consolidate freight and increase customer satisfaction.
Flow-thru can be utilized to deconsolidate receipts based on
retail store allocations or consolidate them with previously
picked product in the staging lane, so each store gets the
inventory and quantities it needs in the same shipment.
Trans-shipment capabilities allow companies with
pre-packaged, pre-wrapped pallets to unload pallets and
packages and get them to outbound staging lanes for fast
loading on outbound trucks. Opportunistic capabilities allow
companies to review outbound orders, see where outstanding
ones are, and move product directly to the outbound staging
lane to fill the gap. As a result, freight can be commingled
and consolidated quickly ensuring each outbound delivery
meets customer and service level requirements.
- Cubing (Space Management) - The dimensional weight of an
item is a standard formula (DWH = length (L) x width (W) x
height (H) divided by a dimensional weight conversion
factor, usually 166). These calculations are used to
consider the amount of space a package will take up in
relation to the weight of the package, and is used by most
shipping carriers when billing. When these calculations are
inaccurate due to poor dimensional measuring techniques
everyone suffers. There are several ways to acquire
dimensional measurements, the most typical being ultrasound,
infrared, or some sort of laser technology. The right
dimensioning systems makes it easier to select storage
location, facilitates order picking, repackaging, and
shipment planning. A cubing system helps you to do it right
the first time by applying the correct dimension or
weight-based shipping charge. For carriers, you can easily
and reliably audit the freight you receive from customers.
An integrated digital display and control panel allows for
finger tip control. Innovative software gives you numerical
dimensions and weight and an instantaneous,
three-dimensional graphical representation of the parcel
being measured.
- Slotting and Optimization - Directed Pick & Put away
helps you maximize productivity and minimize travel time
from location to location by determining the most
advantageous arrangement of SKUs within a range of pick
faces or slots. It minimizes disruptions that result from
demand variability by enabling adjustment of product
placement according to seasonality, special promotions,
changes in customer order patterns, and the like reduce pick
times for faster order fulfillment, improve picker
productivity, reduce pick errors, improve ergonomics and
safety, and reduce capital and operating costs. Slotting and
Optimization ensures the placement of items across pick
faces based on a wide selection of user-definable criteria,
including product pick velocity, product family groups, and
product attributes. It helps you minimize travel distances
for selection and put-away, reduce replenishments, balance
workloads among operators, and increase pick rates while
constraining product weight and size, location size,
store-level productivity, location capacity, and family
groupings. Warehouse operational and safety standards, as
well as capital and operating costs, are also considered.
Match slots to demand, weight and
other product characteristics for faster, more accurate
picking resulting in improved productivity. The physical
location of inventory in a warehouse is critical to your
workforce's ability to fill orders quickly, accurately and
safely. Slotting Optimization scientifically determines the
best picking profile for your warehouse, and enables you to
make timely, intelligent decisions as ordering trends
change. Slotting Optimization uses data on each product's
physical characteristics and order frequency to calculate a
relative value for each position its slot might inhabit
within your facility. Then it aggregates these values for
all products, and compares millions of move combinations
against your user-configured strategies to determine the
single optimal layout for your warehouse.
As input data changes, such as seasonal ordering trends
or new or discontinued products, Slotting Optimization can
revise its recommendations incrementally, to keep your
warehouse at maximum efficiency without costly overhauls.
- Kitting
- Pallet Tracking
- Replenishment
- Wave Picking (Batched Orders) - Based on system
parameters, orders are grouped into waves (batches). There
are numerous options, user can set grouping by customer,
delivery route, zip code etc. The pick priority is based on
customer type and delivery methods.
- Shipment Planning - Once stock is allocated, outbound
containers are assigned per line item based on the pick zone
of items. Per zone, you can specify different shippable
containers that should be used and their restrictions such
as dimension and weight. WHIZeCargo WMS boxing algorithm fits
items into the designated type of container based on
dimension of the item or its unit package and weight of
item. System selects the best container for the order line
items with regards to fit. The system also assigns a
packaging-identifier for tracking and "Record of
Shipment" purposes for each container. Depending on the
quantity allocated, weight and size of the item, the system
assigns one or more containers per order line item.
- Yard Management
- Freight Forwarding
- Distribution Management
WHIZeCargo WMS lets you:
- Achieve 99.9% inventory accuracy with leading-edge Radio
Frequency Identification (RFID)/barcode technologies to
track inventory and ensure disciplined inventory rotation,
including expiration date, lot control and serial number
tracking
- Reduce inventory levels, lost stock and carrying
costs with real-time, quality information on inventory
levels by location, throughout the enterprise
- Maximize use of warehouse space with
user-configured computer-directed putaway, replenishment and
inventory allocation algorithms
- Optimize pick labor efficiency and accuracy and improve
customer order fulfillment rates with advanced picking
techniques for pick and pass, batch picking and cluster
picking activities all with RF scan confirmation
- Increase labor productivity with RF/Barcode
technologies, cross-docking, labor productivity reporting
and decision-support systems
- Satisfy customer demand for integrated value-added
services such as kitting, bills and work orders, compliance
labeling and Electronic Data Interchange
(EDI), through WHIZTEC Distribution
Management System
- Eliminate costly, labor-intensive inventory
discrepancies between multiple inventory databases and
batch-oriented systems
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