Solvo.WMS Functions

Receiving of materials

• Receiving of a purchase order through the gateway from the HS.
• Creation of a purchase order by manager in WMS without data from HS.
• Launching processing of material receipt upon manager’s command: formation of work for RDT.
• Printing a receiving log.
• Receipt into receiving locations (zone with locations or unlimited capacity zone).
• Receipt in storage locations.
• Receipt of specific category SKUs (defective, damaged, etc.) followed by putting away into separate zones.
• Receipt of materials based on shelf-life time, expiry dates, production dates.
• End of receiving, closing the delivery.
  • Computer-aided printing of the receipt statement, of inconsistencies at the time of receiving.
  • Transfer of data on delivered and received SKUs to the HS via the gateway.
  • Formation of a list of required documents (certificates, certifications passports) based on regulations governing certificate handling.

Putting away

• Search and reservation of locations for putting away during the time of materials receipt with consideration to putting away rules, SKU categories, owners, weight and dimension characteristics of materials.
• Formulation of work assignments for putting away during the receiving or upon the end of the receiving of the entire delivery.
• Putting away work assignment through the RDT system.
• Putting away initiated by the RDT operator.
• Work assignment on paper in the form of on-paper pick lists (depending on the rules of work formation).

Storage

• SKU navigation (pallets, containers, separate boxes).
• Routeing
• Changing of SKU destination
• Mechanism for warehouse balance support
• Checking of shelf life and expiry time of materials
• Screening materials for inadequacy
• Writing off
• Assembly/disassembly of sets (redesigning)

Certification

• Support of various documents (certificates, certifications, passports).
• Monitoring document validity.
• Binding of documents to SKUs, production date, expiry date,manufacturer.
• Development of certificate register at the time of receiving and loading.
• Development of missing certificates for received, loaded SKUs.
• SKU planning for orders with regard to certificates based on planning rules.
• Scanning and storage of electronic certificate copies.
• Selection of certificates for order picking based on data about collected SKUs.
• Printing out electronic certificate copies at the time of order loading.

Orders for loading

• Getting orders from the HS through the gateway.
• Feeding orders directly into the WMS by a manager with respect to SKU owners.
• Order planning: search and reservation of SKUs in the warehouse with regard to owners, shelf life, expiry dates (fefo/lefo), fifo/lifo of deliveries.
• Transfer of an order plan to the HS through the gateway.
• Formulation of work assignments for zone putaway: taking pallets from upper rack locations to the lower (or re-location into another zone) for further picking of cartons into orders, as per special zone putaway rules.
• Launching order picking on manager’s command, formulation of work assignments for SKU picking and delivery into staging zone, as per routeing rules.
• Work assignment to RDT operators with regard to order priority, distances, privilege and vehicle type.
• Possibility of work assignment on paper pick-lists with subsequent confirmation.
• Picking several orders at the same time with optimization of delivery into the staging zone.
• Picking by entire pallets
• Picking parts of SKUs (boxes from pallets and containers).
• Picking by item from storage zones or an identified zone of item picking (forward pick zones).
• Order picking by RDT operators for subsequent putting into temporary storage locations or loading on trucks.
• Printing out loading labels for boxes and pallets.
• Printing an order packing list.
• Transfer the order picking results into the HS via the gateway.
• Launching order loading by manager.
• Loading work assignment using RDTs or on-paper pick-lists.
• Order loading completion with confirmation of load types and places.
• Cancellation of order parts or entire orders at the loading stage.
• Replacement of damaged SKUs by normal ones during the loading stage.
• Order re-planning and replenishment by manager’s command during picking and loading.
• Loading completion on manager’s command.
• Sending the loading data to the HS via the gateway.

Grouping orders by route

• Route identification in the WMS by manager
• Launching a route for assembly by manager: launching a group of orders for the route.
• Route loading
• Printing a loaded route list.

Forward pick zone

• Possibility to organize separate order forward pick zone.
• Computer-aided control of SKU quantity in the forward-pick zone.
• Calculation of needed quantity in the zone based on the picking statistics.
• Replenishment of the zone from storage in case the quantity is insufficient.
• Computer-aided identification of locations in the zone for SKU’s for subsequent picking by item.

Inventory – storage counting

• Fixing planned, periodic counting of a zone, rack, location using different criteria, namely: type of material, manufacturer, owner, expiry date.
• Counting work formulation and assignment without interrupting warehouse work.
• Computer-aided formulation of counting work assignment in case of problems with loads.
• RDT counting, changing material characteristics.
• Recording discrepancies in the course of counting, balance correction.

Manual operations on RDT (if initiated by operator not by the system)

• Loads relocation in the storage
• Loads division into parts
• Re-warehousing
• Counting
• Recording problems with loads and locations
• Request for concrete work (order picking, receiving, putting away, picking, etc.)
• Review of data on materials, loads, locations using the RDT.

Assignment of work to operators

• RDT-aided work assignment

Work with owners

• Monitoring of the load owner for the whole duration of the owner’s warehouse use.
• Recording of transactions by owner
• Daily data summing up based on collected data.
• Revision of total and detailed data by owners.
• Relay of summed up data for requested period into HS through the gateway.

Work with references concerning:

• Materials
• Package types
• Shipments
• Material types
• Storage conditions
• SKU types
• Hazard classes
• Clients (suppliers, buyers)
• Owners
• Manufacturers
• Load categories

Architecture and configuration

• Various rules for flexible change for the system operation mode depending of the warehouse architecture. All rules allow setting load filtration by type of material, storage terms, material form, hazard category, load category, owner and manufacturer.
  • Rules governing accommodation by zones.
  • Routing rules: allow putting away of SKUs via transit locations to be used for different transport types.
  • Compatibility rules allow storage of materials in one location.
  • Zone putaway rules: setting up picking and storage zones, relocation from upper tiers for the purposes of picking or relocation to other zones.
  • Displacement rules: in case a zone is overfilled the software allows computer-aided relocation of loads into other zones or tiers.
  • Certification and document management rules: setting up a demand for checking of certifying documents at the receiving and loading times including all kinds of documents.
  • Planning rules: setting up SKU search for orders by expiry date rotation, shipment shelf life, batch and lot control and stock ownership, planning mode, restrictions for picking zones.
  • Rules for work formulation: allows setting up work type and zone, means for work formulation and assignment (RDT and paper pick-lists).
• Instrument for location grouping into additional zones in the hierarchical order to be subsequently used in the rules.
• Function of expanding and changing of the warehouse geometry: new racks, zone and locations.