What Is a Warehouse Management System?
It is a software program that is designed to optimize the warehouse management function and streamline its procedures. In simple words, a warehouse management system (WMS) makes sure that goods and materials move along efficiently and cost-effectively.
With effective warehouse management comes transparency, real-time inventory updates (in-facility or in-transit). However, the functions of WMS are not limited to this.
Our efficient WMS helps in understanding and monitoring warehouse design, and keeping an eye on activities such as labour management, picking and packing goods, inventory tracking, receiving and storing, shipping, yard and dock management, and others.
Not every warehouse is well organized. Many warehouses face issues like an inefficient use of space and lengthy pick-and-pack processes. This warehouse management feature ensures effective workflow and picking logic to facilitate a well-defined warehouse and an optimized inventory allocation. You can manage storage space as per the inventory needs.
Get ready to track inventory data from barcode readers and RFID tags. This will update data in the software’s dashboard so you can have the updated data available to use anytime you want. Anyone can access the information with permission. Your staff will find inventory easily whenever they need to be moved.
Be it zone picking, wave picking, or batch picking, all can be optimized with warehouse management. It offers lot-zoning and task interleaving functions to help workers with their pick-and-pack process efficiently.
Enjoy faster inventory put-away and retrieval process through pick-to-light (PTL) or pick-to-voice (PTV) technology.
This feature lets you send bills of lading (B/L) in advance of the shipment, create packing lists and invoices, and more.
Monitor the worker’s performance by using key performance indicators (KPIs) and know who is performing as per the work standards and who needs motivation or training.
You can assist truck drivers arriving at a warehouse, and guide them to the right loading docks. Additional logistics features like cross-docking are available.
This ERP feature generates automatic reports so that your managers can analyze the warehouse operations, employees, and others. This way, the manager can anticipate potential issues and work on the areas for improvement.
Optimize the internal operation of the warehouse and supply chain. You can streamline an end to end warehouse process, right from receipts to delivery. This leads to improved efficiency and reduced costs. Warehouse workers and managers can achieve accurate and paced shipment by cancelling or reducing non-productive activities or processes. This consequently means your partners (internal and external) can perform their jobs better
Enjoy access to real-time and accurate inventory levels. Estimate supply and reduce or eliminate backorders. All of this will ultimately lead to satisfied customers.
Make use of methods like scanning, or RFID, to ensure visibility at the location and get rid of issues like forgotten, lost, or misplaced goods within the warehouse.
Tracing inventory material is easy with warehouse management systems. The feature lets you trace a lot, batch, and serial numbering to know the group in which the specific item was made. You can match a particular lot or batch with incoming receipts and outgoing shipments to enjoy complete traceability. Tracing material helps to lower redundancy, facilitates accurate planning and allocation of inventory and offers updated information for future traceability, service maintenance, and more.
Optimize the internal operation of the warehouse and supply chain. You can streamline an end to end warehouse process, right from receipts to delivery. This leads to improved efficiency and reduced costs. Warehouse workers and managers can achieve accurate and paced shipment by cancelling or reducing non-productive activities or processes. This consequently means your partners (internal and external) can perform their jobs better
Enjoy access to real-time and accurate inventory levels. Estimate supply and reduce or eliminate backorders. All of this will ultimately lead to satisfied customers.
Make use of methods like scanning, or RFID, to ensure visibility at the location and get rid of issues like forgotten, lost, or misplaced goods within the warehouse.
Tracing inventory material is easy with warehouse management systems. The feature lets you trace a lot, batch, and serial numbering to know the group in which the specific item was made. You can match a particular lot or batch with incoming receipts and outgoing shipments to enjoy complete traceability. Tracing material helps to lower redundancy, facilitates accurate planning and allocation of inventory and offers updated information for future traceability, service maintenance, and more.
Optimize the internal operation of the warehouse and supply chain. You can streamline an end to end warehouse process, right from receipts to delivery. This leads to improved efficiency and reduced costs. Warehouse workers and managers can achieve accurate and paced shipment by cancelling or reducing non-productive activities or processes. This consequently means your partners (internal and external) can perform their jobs better
Make the most use of the floor space according to the task and material characteristics. StackFX uses space and floor plan analysis to decide how space should be utilized and reduce space waste. This also saves your business from the potential cost of excessive material movement and retrieval.
By choosing the right location to store products, materials or equipment, you can reduce its operating expenses too.
Shipment planning (inbound and outbound can be done efficiently with a warehouse system. Once your staff knows that an inventory is scheduled to arrive, your staff can optimize the exact time and day depending upon the present labor force and equipment. StackFX ERP also lets you plan the receiving docks and outbound shipping docks.
