Initially a system to control movement and storage of materials within a warehouse, the role of WMS is expanding to including light manufacturing, transportation management, order management, and complete accounting systems.
Even though WMS continues to gain added functionality, the initial core functionality of a WMS has not really changed. The primary purpose of a WMS is to control the movement and storage of materials within an operation and process the associated transactions. Directed picking, directed replenishment, and directed put-away are the key to WMS.
The basic logic will use a combination of item, location, quantity, unit of measure, and order information to determine where to stock, where to pick, and in what sequence to perform these operations.
Key Benefits
- Reduced manual interactions resulting in reduced errors.
- Ensure effective utilization of resources.
- Enables 24 x 7 automatic tracking and monitoring of items
- On-demand customized reports.
- Enforce business rules e.g. FIFO
- Audit item movement across time and space.
- Eliminates the deliberate /intentional misuse of items.
- Reduction in wastage
- Tackle pilferage and misplacement
- Avoids delayed item fetches.
- Effective utilization of shelf life of perishables.
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