Warehouse management system

With a native WMS program, you gain business-wide traceability, employee accountability and real-time speed and responsiveness. Through scan guns and barcodes, you can move from pen and paper to a digital WMS environment that eliminates re-keying of data and the unavoidable human entry error

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Project Area of Specialization

Computer Science

Project Summary

With a native WMS program, you gain business-wide traceability, employee accountability and real-time speed and responsiveness.

Through scan guns and barcodes, you can move from pen and paper to a digital WMS environment that eliminates re-keying of data and the unavoidable human entry error that accompanies it.

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The benefits of a comprehensive warehouse management system include:

Reduced fulfillment time
Increased inventory accuracy
Improved customer service
Greater space utilization
Increased warehouse productivity
Reduced labor cost

Project Objectives

. Maximum use to space

. Capital cost of space is very high

Effective use of labour and equipment

. Material handling equipment is the second largest capital cost

Need best mix of equipment and labour

. All SKU'S should be easy to find

. Move good efficiency

Project Implementation Method

Once you’ve decided you need a WMS and chosen the right partner to help you implement your WMS, the next step is to plan, resource, and execute your implementation.

This page discusses the most important foundational elements and lessons learnt over the past 20 years. We’ve seen these as essential to ensuring a highly successful WMS outcome.

The implementation of a WMS is often complex. Project planning is critical to the success of any WMS implementation. The project requires warehouse resources to collect data on the physical warehouse, materials, and inventory, as well as defining the strategies required to operate the warehouse.

Benefits of the Project

Benefit 1: Optimized Space and Lower Operating Expenses. ...
Benefit 2: Inventory Visibility. ...
Benefit 3: Effective Labor. ...
Benefit 4: Traceable Materials. ...
Benefit 5: Optimized Supply Chain. ...
Benefit 6: Internal Automation Benefit. ...
Benefit 7: Effective Shipment Management providing better Customer Service

Technical Details of Final Deliverable

Warehouses sit at the center of manufacturing and supply chain operations because they hold all of the material used or produced in those processes, from raw materials to finished goods. The purpose of a WMS is to help ensure that goods and materials move through warehouses in the most efficient and cost-effective way.