In Warehouse Management Systems any sort of Advanced Allocation can significant add functionality to sales orders, purchase orders, and better inventory management overall in the warehouse.
Enhanced functionality in warehouse operations can expand to many areas including picking, receiving, stock locator, counting, order allocation, and wave planning enhancements: Some of the various functionality inside Warehouse Management Systems (WMS) with Directed Advanced Allocation could include:
Picking Enhancements:
Ability to enable User-Defined Prompts when sales orders are waved, when users start picking a wave or when users pick an item.
Hazmat Restrictions
- Carton restrictions based on weight, cube or value
- Ability to Capture box size during picking
- Ability to Repack Order, Repack Carton, Relabel Carton, Combine Cartons, Swap Serials
- Ability to create an Incident when pickers indicate bins are not empty
Receiving Enhancements:
- Configurable workflow prompts for bin, carrier, packing slip, receive date, freight status, comments, weight, cube
- Ability to enable User-Defined Prompts when purchase orders are waved, when users start receiving a wave or when users receive an item.
- Validate quantities upon PO Completion
- Ability to send internal email notifications when orders are received
- Ability to check UPC Barcode during Receiving
Stock Locator Enhancements:
- Decimal quantities
- Ability to enter Incidents via the handheld
- Replenishment Letdown by Quantity, Product, Pick Zone
- Restrict Consolidation of Stock with different Expiry or FIFO Dates
- Auto-breakdown of Packsizes in Random Bins during Allocation
Order Allocation Enhancements:
- Infinite Stock
- Background Allocation
- Ability to Define and Schedule Allocation Templates
- Ability to print Packing Slips for Nuked Sales Orders
- Allocation and replenishment based predefined packsizes
- Only ship goods in pre-defined packsizes
- Days to Expiry Allocation
Wave Planning Enhancements:
- Generate Wave labels, Pre-packslip labels, Packing Planner labels,
- Paper Pick tickets
- Pack & Hold, Ship with Other Goods, Order Consolidation at Waving
- Ability to Define and Schedule Wave Planning Templates
- Sort Full-Case (Slapper) Labels
- Set End-of-Line and Carton Type during Waving
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Posted By: iCepts Technology Group, Inc.-An Accellos One Warehouse Management Systems Partner in Pennsylvania
