Warehouse Management System

Arun SudhakaranRoshan Rajan

Warehouse

• A warehouse is a commercial building for storage of goods. Warehouses are used by manufacturers, importers, exporters, wholesalers, transport businesses, customs, etc. They are usually large plain buildings in industrial areas of cities and towns and villages.

WMS

• A warehouse management system (WMS) is a key part of the supply chain and primarily aims to control the movement and storage of materials within a warehouse and process the associated transactions, including shipping, receiving, put away and picking.

Why WMS ?• Automate and streamline the process.• Overcome the problems of stock visibility and traceability, and

improving picking accuracy, avoiding losses made through non deliveries, mis-deliveries, returns and service level fines.

• Provide visibilities across your operation to clearly identify areas of blockage and wastage, by ensuring all key managers are kept fully up to date with all detailed information as well as KPI’[Key Performance Indicators]s.

• Devote more time to building the business, as we will provide all systems support, continual help and advice, and systems improvement, whenever you need it.

Order Selection

• Two types.• 1) Discrete selection• In Discrete selection, a specific customer order

is selected and prepared for the shipment as a specific work assignment. Often used when the order content and handling selection are critical

Wave selection or Batch Selection

• A wave can be coordinated by an area of the warehouse where in all quantities of all products required to complete all customer order are selected at one time. For this approach employees are assigned the responsibility for a specific region of the warehouse.

• Waves can be planned around a particular shipment destination or a carrier.

• Advantage of the Wave• Fewer selective errors typically resulting from

the wave picking• Employee gets thorough knowledge of the

warehouse selection area on the shipping procedure.

Pallet

A pallet is a flat transport structure that supports goods in a stable fashion while being lifted by a forklift, pallet jack, front loader, work saver, or other jacking device, or a crane. A pallet is the structural foundation of a unit load which allows handling and storage efficiencies. Goods or shipping containers are often placed on a pallet secured with strapping, stretch wrap or shrink wrap and shipped. Since its invention in the twentieth century, its use has dramatically supplanted older forms of crating like the wooden box and the wooden barrel, as it works well with modern packaging like cardboard boxes and Intermodal containers commonly used for bulk shipping.While most pallets are wooden, pallets can also be made of plastic, metal, paper, and recycled materials.

Accuracy and Audits

• A cycle count is an inventory auditing procedure, which falls under inventory management, where a small subset of inventory, in a specific location, is counted on a specified day.

Security

• Datacenter & Server Security Cages• Data centres, server farms, and other

technical areas are all vulnerable security points with a driving need to control access. Companies have millions of dollars of digital assets on servers and often depend on just an inadequate locked room - or nothing at all - to physically secure them.

• Employee Theft - How to Prevent it• When it comes to warehouse thievery,

employees are most often than not the culprit. There are preventative measures you can take to limit or even put an end to your inventory walking out the door.

• Material Handling: How it Affects Security• The way you store and handle inventory is

critical to its security, especially in a warehousing or production operation. The more organized your storage systems are, the more secure your inventory, tools, parts, and equipment.

• Security at the Shipping Docks• Almost any warehouse has something people

want, and will steal. Electronics, tools, footwear, clothing, prescription drugs, computers, jewelry, tobacco, and media especially coveted, but nearly anything can be at risk from industrial components to glassware. The shipping and receiving docks are the weak point in most operations' security. Here's how you can deter theft at the docks.

Pilferage

• Pilferage is the theft of part of the contents of a package. It may also include theft of the contents but leaving the package, perhaps resealed with bogus contents. Small packages can be pilfered from a larger package such as a shipping container.

Damage

• Product deterioration due careless handling should be avoided.

• At all times the standard operation procedures must be followed with proper safety measures and checks.

Safety and Maintenance

• Accident prevention• Corrective actions to eliminate unsafe

condition• Provide clean work area• Periodic preventive maintenance scheduling.