Warehouse Management System

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SYSPRO's Warehouse Management System (WMS) supports the operations of a warehouse. It streamlines processes to move items faster and store them more efficiently. It helps reduce inventories and associated labor costs and increases accuracy.

It focuses on a number of areas:

  • Management and control of picking and put operations.
  • Tracking movement operations.
  • Warehouse location management.
  • Forward visibility planning.
  • Execution of inbound and outbound logistics.
  • Optimization of physical floor space.

Benefits:

  • Minimized costs associated with inventory transactions and error handling.

  • Improved fulfillment times for sales functions.

  • Standardized receiving, putaway, picking processes.

  • Increased inventory accuracy and visibility.

  • Improved efficiency on material handling based on pre-defined storage and handling rules.

  • Batching of transactions based on locality for improved efficiency to location visits.

  • Reduced cycle time for larger orders using coordinated team picking.

  • Cross-docking potential to demand on receipt.

  • Work-to-lists providing clear visibility as to resource demands by discipline, locality and date / time-based requirements.

  • On-value addition of transactions to normal warehousing functions to facilitate rules based cycle counting rules.

  • Full cycle time logs for all operations for the future determination of effective resourcing.

  • Handling the receipt and returns of stock, both to a supplier and from a customer.

  • Modeling the logical links between a warehouse, warehouse areas bins and stock.

  • Effective tracking of the amount of time products are in stock, to prioritize the positioning of that stock in the warehouse.

  • Optimization of warehouse space using consolidation missions.

  • Providing a link between the velocity Pareto and the bin priority rules to ensure the products are in the right place at the right time.

The Order Picking feature provides picking routines to improve order book fulfillment and the management of the pick processes. It is an extension of the multi-bin functionality that is currently available in SYSPRO.

A mission can be generated from a sales order pick in order to assign picking tasks to the warehouse operation. The picking tasks can be completed using the Espresso Order Picking or Missions & Tasks application. The system is updated real time as the stock is picked and the task completed.

Benefits:

  • Better stock visibility by tracking items and locations.
  • Improved fulfillment times for sales functions.
  • Picking tailored to suit your business based on your requirements for batch, wave, or order picks.
  • Standardized receiving, put-away, and picking processes.
  • Batch transactions based on locality for improved efficiency of location visits.
  • Reduced cycle times for larger orders using coordinated team picking.
  • Work-to-lists provide clear visibility into resource demands by discipline, locality and date/time-based requirements.

This innovation will provide for the implementation of a cycle count methodology. A cycle count is an inventory auditing procedure which falls under inventory management, where a small subset of inventory or specific locations is designated to be counted on a specified cycle.

Cycle counts contrast with traditional physical inventory in that a full physical inventory may stop operation at a facility while all items are counted at one time.

Cycle counts are less disruptive to daily operations, provide an ongoing measure of inventory accuracy and procedure execution, and can be tailored to focus on items with higher value, higher movement volume, or which are critical to business processes.

Benefits:

  • Create a schedule of stock counting policies.
  • Limit the amount of disruption in your warehouse by shortening the time between your counting processes.
  • Increased stock accuracy by continuously assessing your inventory.
  • Better governance through full cycle count audits.
  • Fewer stock write-offs by reducing inventory variances.

The Missions and Tasks feature lets you create a work-to-list for queuing and moving inventory within a warehouse. This gives warehouse managers greater work allocation control and visibility.

A mission can be created for inventory putaway, sales order pick or cycle count transactions. Once missions and tasks are assigned to the employee or team they can be serviced using the Missions & Tasks application in SYSPRO Espresso (where operators can then view their tasks from a mobile device) or the WHM Review Mission Tasks program.

The system is updated in real time as the stock is allocated, physically moved and the task completed. Once all tasks are done, the mission can be completed.

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This functionality is scheduled for later release.

This innovation will allow for the management of the marshaling process associated with packing or preparation prior to the dispatch process.

The marshaling process provides for the validation of the second stage pick into the constituent individual dispatches, the provision of creating and loading pallets and their respective manifests, as well as allowing for the production of customer-specific labeling requirements.

Benefits:

  • Allows a second validation of your picking process through a staged process.
  • Allows the creation of a pallet and driver manifest.
  • Preparation of customer labeling requirements.
This functionality is scheduled for later release.

The Order Shipping API will provide a generic interface for the integration of any external shipping application into SYSPRO's order dispatch process.

Benefits:

  • Streamline operations
  • Optimize processes

This refers to an inventory auditing procedure whereby a small subset of inventory items (or specific locations) are designated to be counted on a specified cycle.

The information derived from the cycle count can be used to determine the accuracy of stock levels within the entire warehouse (e.g. if discrepancies are found between actual and system stock levels, similar variances may be expected in other areas of the warehouse).

A putaway refers to the process of moving inventory between bins and warehouses. The initial putaway would be from the receiving zone to the storage location in a warehouse. Subsequent Putaway transactions include bin and goods in transit warehouse transfers.

A mission can be created for inventory putaway, sales order pick or cycle count transactions. Once missions and tasks are assigned to the employee or team they can be serviced using the Missions & Tasks application in SYSPRO Espresso (where operators can then view their tasks from a mobile device) or the WHM Review Mission Tasks program.

The system is updated in real time as the stock is allocated, physically moved and the task completed. Once all tasks are done, the mission can be completed.

This is the process of finding and extracting products from a warehouse bin to fulfill customer sales orders.