Warehouse Management System (WMS)

Functions

Solvo.WMS includes basic as well as additional functionality, depending on the business technologies used in the warehouse and the type of material handling equipment utilized.

Optimization principles
• Automatic identification of loads/identity control
• Warehouse zoning
• Control operations in real time mode
• Workflow optimization
• Remote personnel management
• Authority levels and privileges control
• Labor standards
• Keep record of any event and action
• Material handling equipment control
• Routing optimization and load tracking and tracing
• Order staging by optimal vehicle routs (task interleaving)
• Graphical representation of the warehouse layout
• System configuration
• Report generation
• System of help
• Support of RF and bar code equipment
• Integration with ERP system
• Statistics exchange
• OLAP (online analytical processing)

Inbound management
• Advanced notification
• Receive the nonstandard, unpacked product and returns
• Cross-docking

Operations on product in stock
• Automation and goods stocking and warehouse operations
• Putaway and inventory storage rules
• Inventory allocation priority definition
• Inventory control
• Product age and expiration date control
• Load status control
• Load reallocation
• Sorting
• QC & quarantine
• Inventory management
• Inventory management by FIFO or by expiration date/shelf life
• Inventory by various units of measure
• Warehouse balance management/optimal safety stock level
• Stock inventory
  • Physical counting
  • Cycle counting
• Writing-off scrap and rejects
• Inventory update and elimination of load lost

Order processing
• Order planning
• Goods reservation/backup
• Picking
• Staging
• Reserving for special orders
• Kitting/assembling
• Wave processing
• Shipment
• Direct loading regardless of order continuity
• Prior consolidated orders shipment
  • forward picking and replenishment
  • оrder re-planning
• Order cancellation and processing changes
• Handling exceptional situations
• Screening

Personnel management
• Labor productivity analysis
• Reports on every warehouse operation during certain period of time
• Keep record on every fulfilled task

More available functionality
• Virtual warehouses (stocks) support
• Preparation of the warehouse for putaway
• Receiving extra ware
• Receiving measuring product by parts
• Weight control
• Certification control
• Control during process of manufacturing
  • Random control
  • Single control
• Integration with the product manufacturing processes
• ISM (instock manufacturing)
• Integration with conveyor (interfaces to control conveyor diverts and other MHE requirements)
• Goods compatibility control
• Handling loads of extreme dimensions
• Loads labeling
• Palletizer and Applicator handling
• Vehicle loading optimization
• Re-loading