Warehouse Management System (WMS)

Technologies (Operation cycle)

Solvo's WMS is an application suite designed to optimize warehouse operations. Solvo's solutions manage the entire warehouse operation cycle in a real time mode.

The System controls warehouse personnel as well as material handling equipment, and operatively generates tasks for users based on a current situation.

Solvo.WMS is based on automatic identification technologies (such as barcoding and others), the principle of mapping warehouse locations and assigning unique storage locations to inventory and remote personnel management.

Every warehouse operator is equipped with an RF terminal - a mobile computer which can either be handheld or mounted on a forktruck. Tasks are automatically generated in Solvo.WMS and are sent to RF terminal screens as a set of elementary sequential commands. Commands/directions can also be set and sent by the warehouse manager, who may control the task assignment process.

The operator confirms task fulfillment by scanning a label barcode at the processed location. If RFID technology is deployed, task fulfillment is confirmed by scanning RF mark.

Using the Solvo.WMS your warehouse will be functioning as an integrated and well-controlled complex, bringing together all the resources and capable of interaction with other elements of the logistics chain.

Solvo.WMS will be a key component of the complex.

Data base
The system can be integrated with the following DBMS:

• Oracle
• Sybase
• MS SQL
• PostgresSQL
• IBM DB2

Integration with any of the above listed DBMS allows customers the possibility to reduce total ownership costs and use customary DBMS.

Operational System
The system is based on Unix (Linux) platform, while clients applications are run under Windows и Unix.

RF equipment
Solvo Ltd. offers the most reliable up-to-date RF equipment produced by American companies LXE and PSC, who have 30 years experience in solutions development and manufacturing of the devices based on wireless technologies. LXE and PSC equipment deployment enable you to increase performance and improve logistics management.

Barcode technology
A label with a barcode is applied to loads. Depending on the standard, the barcode can encode any information such as product profile, expiration date and others. It is used for unique identification of the loads. A barcode is a series of varying width vertical lines (called bars) and spaces. Barcode technology encompasses the symbologies that encode data to be optically read, the printing technologies that produce machine-readable symbols, the scanners and decoders that capture visual images of the symbologies and convert them to computer-compatible digital data, and the verifiers that validate symbol quality. Coupled with the improvements in data accuracy that accompanies the adoption of bar code technology over keyboard data entry, bar code systems are critical elements in conducting business in today's global economy. Tracking physical assets, inventory, and personnel with automated systems can save money and improve operations.

RFID
RFID systems work very much the same way as barcode systems, except that a clear line-of-sight between the scanner and the tag is not necessary, because product information is read by a wireless reader instead of scanning a label. The information that is transmitted via radio signals is able to travel through most materials. RF tag, RFID scanner and a decoding device (computer) are the attributes of RFID. RFID allow for non-contact reading and are effective in manufacturing and other hostile environments where bar code labels could not survive. The technology is able to track remote and moving objects and to encode more information in comparison to usual bar code label.

Wireless networking and mobile computers are an integral part of a bar code or RFID data collection systems.

Integration
Integration methodology with ERP systems was developed during numerous project implementations. Solvo.WMS successfully integrated with SAP R/3, Axapta, 1C, Monolit, Glaktica and others.