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Paperless Warehousing & Distribution Software
Substantial Benefits from Automated Warehousing
Most distribution centres represent a golden opportunity for slashing labour and facility costs, and for improving inventory record accuracy and customer service. In our experience, most clients receive a quick payback on investment - many in under 12 months. What makes this possible is the increased pick rates and better space utilisation that our package provides, with features such as:-
- random location control to maximise space utilisation,
- batch, lot and serial control,
- various expiry, quit-by, use-by dates and shelf life options,
- FIFO stock rotation management,
- capacity and handling profiles for all locations and products,
- optimised picking, put-away, and replenishment to reduce labour costs,
- cross docking facilities,
- picking can be driven by transport schedules,
- effective block stacking control,
- discrete or batch picking with sortation,
- warehouse zoning for optimum control and increased efficiency,
- consignment note preparation and integration to transport costing and management systems,
- ease of integration to host systems,
- labour performance, warehouse utilisation and customer service reporting,
- cyclical and zero count stock takes, and
- RF, barcoding and paperless techniques.
Our package has RF and barcoding extensions for paperless warehousing, which provides superior results over conventional paper-based warehousing systems.
Paperless Warehousing, Bar Coding & RF
Paperless warehousing techniques such as radio frequency (RF) terminals provide real time information to all warehouse personnel to control, measure and manage all warehouse activities. Paperless techniques are more flexible than batch, paper systems and, when coupled with barcode scanning, offer vastly increased accuracy. Our versatile Paperless Warehousing package has many advanced features, including:-
- date/time stamped transactions to provide labour efficiency reports,
- integration to bar code scanning, automatic sortation, pick to light and other equipment,
- each stock handling device has its own preferred walk path,
- warehouse activities can be defined as a series of job routings to automatically link one activity to another,
- stock tracing option to track discrete stock items, and
- packing and consolidation transactions.
Our Paperless Warehousing software is written in our 4GL, and is therefore totally integrated to our other packages. And for maximum flexibility our RF software is not tied to any particular RF equipment.
Better Customer Service & Higher Sales Productivity
Many of our clients also opt for our fully integrated warehousing, distribution and financial solutions with advanced features such as EDI, inventory visibility, vendor scheduling and DRP. These are proven techniques for increasing profitability through reduced inventory holdings and leadtimes, improved customer service and lower order processing costs. These packages are rich in functionality with features such as:-
- inventory visibility over multiple warehouses,
- purchasing with vendor performance analysis and vendor scheduling,
- import costing with multi-currency control,
- sales analysis with multi-period histories and budgeting,
- demand forecasting for better inventory planning,
- DRP for JIT inventory control, purchasing and import ordering, branch replenishments, etc,
- Distribution Requirements Planning (DRP) action messages - a powerful tool for real-time inventory management,
- order processing and invoicing with back order control and full pricing/discounting flexibility,
- EDI links to customers and suppliers,
- fully integrated accounting modules; debtors, creditors, general ledger,
- and 4GL Report/Enquiry Generator.
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