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Benefits
• Faster Turnaround times• Optimize your resources• Reduce Paper work• Seamless integration with transaction (ERP)
systems• Control Inventory
Modules• Receiving • Storage• Wave planning• Picking • Replenishment • Packing • Inventory control• Packing • Cycle Counting
Typical Warehouse Layout
STAGING DOCKING
RECEIVING ZONE
Typical Warehouse Layout
ACTIVE PICK ZONE
CASE PICK
PARTIALRESERVED
RESERVED
DEEPSTORAGE
PICK &DROP
Receiving
• Accelerate receiving process by – Identify inventory and improve tracking – Identify with our without In bound Order
numbers– Associate with ASN– Preassigned Tags or container labels
Advance Shipment Notification
• ASN – Received through EDI, Web service, ERP integration – Details of the shipment to the customer
• PO Numbers• SKUs, Quantity
– Lot Numbers
• Pallet /Container Numbers• Carton Numbers
– Verification of the ASN with actual receipts– Handling Shortages and breakages
License Plate Number
• Unique Identification and locator • Single LPN for a group of Items • Primary identifier to locate the inventory
across the warehouse • Increases receipt throughput and traceability
Inventory Hold
• Inventory “hold” – Special Handling – Seamless integration with QA and QC of ERP
module– Based on the rules defined in the ERP, the material
is under “Hold” for QC or identified for special handling
Put Away Inbound• Put Away
– Move from Staging area to final location– Location is decided based on
• Product Velocity – Fast moving , Slow moving • Storage constraints – Size, Weight, Hazardous, Climatic
control• Other user defined parameters
– System suggest put- away sequence for an optimized travel path
– Put away confirmation by the operator• “To LPN” if drop in another LPN
– Cross docking of materials
Release “Hold”
• “Hold” released after – Required events are fulfilled– Inspection– QC, QA approval
• Material classified as “Active”• Available to Issue
Wave Planning
• Breakdown and pool orders– To manage and optimize– Picking – Packing– Replenishments – Shipping activities
• Create Batch or “Wave” of orders– Optimize quantity to be picked from each zone to
fulfill a “wave”
Wave Planning- Pick and Pack Orders
• Pick Wave created based on– Mode of transportation– Weight, Volume– LTL, FL – Customer Specifications– Shipment time restrictions– Order Prioritization• Pick “from” drop “to” tasks identified
• Fulfillment of order– Full LPN, Partial LPN– Cases– Loose packs in “active” zone
Wave Planning- Pick and Pack Orders
• Pack wave– Subtype of Pick wave– Honor material handling constraints – Create smaller Pack waves to meet material
handling constraints
Wave Planning- Replacement Orders
• Created after processing “pick” material requirement
• Create orders to move goods from “Bulk” to forward pick locations
• Activity can run parallel to pick and pack activity
Wave process
• Create a Wave– Select the criteria for orders to participate in the wave
• Customer, time, shipment etc
• Planning a wave– Check for resources – Items, Labor, material handling equipment
• Releasing a wave– On release the resources are allocated against the
wave.
Cycle Count
• Random Counts– Creation of Random cycle count order– Based on ABC classification and frequency of cycle
Cycle Count
• “Zero” Confirmations– Performed during day- to day operations– Creates cycle count order if “zero” inventory was
recorded – previous day / shift– Process similar to random count