WMS

LanSoft Warehouse Management System is a powerful, customizable and flexible real-time system that saves your business time and money through efficient warehouse processes.

• Accurate inventory data.
• Rapid order management processes.
• Faultless orders and customer satisfaction.
• Simultaneous access, share and process of information by sales, purchase and warehouse departments.
• Maximum efficiency of goods receipt and shipment.
• Optimum warehouse space utilization.
• Directed put-away and picking processes.
• Total control of warehouse processes to minimize management costs.

Configuration of Supplied Products / Goods

• Product attributes settings: (storage group, storage unit – pallet, boxes etc.), pattern, receipt unit, sales unit, picking unit / sub-packages, lots, expiry dates etc.)
• Support of many barcode IDs per product.
• Forecast settings.

Purchase Orders Management

Purchasing staff have access to real-time and accurate data so they can maintain optimum stock levels and minimize stock-holding costs.

• Real-time information of sales, returns and stock movement of suppliers’ goods.
• Order forecasting.

Receiving and Put-Away

The merchandise reception takes place on the docks, where the goods are checked against the relative manifests. The system compares actual receipts against purchased orders and reports the differences. Receipts can be held if any differences are found. Barcode scanning significantly improves performance and accuracy in the receiving process. It supports standard formats (e.g. UCC/EAN-128).

• Standard pallets (one product per pallet).
• Mixed pallets (multiple products per pallet).
• New pallets can be built according to warehouse storage specifications.
• Monitor pending receipt tasks per dock or supplier.
• Forklifts are guided automatically by the system to put-away the merchandise to proper storage locations.

Returns

Returns are handled similarly to the standard receipts. However they are related to specific customer order shipments to accelerate identification of returned items. Returns are categorized and processed.

• Healthy Items (can either be stored in the warehouse or returned to supplier)
• Defective Items (elimination of defective items or returned to supplier)

Receiving Returns of Healthy Merchandise and Put-Away

• Authorized users identify the returned goods and, if needed, build new pallets.
• Authorized users transfer quantities directly to picking areas and/or stock locations.
• Forklifts are guided automatically by the system to put-away the merchandize to proper storage locations.

Quality Control and H.A.C.C.P. System

• Ability to block particular lots during merchandise reception and returns.
• Ability to unblock particular lots to make them available.
• Application of HACCP (Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points).
• Tracking of particular lots.

Sales Orders Management

• Support of product catalogs per customer.
• Sales orders entry is done via web or via interfacing to external systems.
• Provide accurate information to customers about stock availability.
• Schedule and prioritize sales orders.
• Forecasts of picking volumes (number of pallets, packages etc.).
• Stock control (automatic identification and allocation of the right stock for every sales order).
• The stock rotation rules can be based on FIFO, FEFO, LIFO etc. standards.

Picking

• Picking can be performed by RFs and/or by printed picking lists.
• Picking list can be assigned to an individual picker or a group of pickers.
• Picking of packages, boxes or pieces is performed at the picking areas.
• Picking of pallets is performed by the forklifts, which are guided automatically by the system to transfer the merchandise from the stock shelves to the docks.
• Forklifts are guided automatically by the system to perform any picking area replenishment.
• Monitoring of pickers and forklifts tasks, in real time, using the Live Picking Module (pending picking, done picking, picking volumes and picking time, per picking wave, picker task, sales order. Real-time picking area control).
• Picking statistics (per year/month, product group, product, picker, and customer).

Picking Areas Replenishment

• Replenishment is based on predefined minimum quantities per product picking area.
• On time replenishment triggered by picking wave (automated by the generation of picking lists).
• On time replenishment triggered by picking process (automated by picking area stock balance).
• On time replenishment triggered by the warehouse staff (to give priority to specific picking areas).
• Off time replenishment (this process is performed independently of picking waves, so during picking no replenishment traffic is required).

Packing, Loading and Shipping

• Split of sales orders to one or more shipments.
• Checking and packing.
• Monitor pending tasks per dock, customer and/or route.
• Loading and shipping.
• Traceability up to delivery point.

Cross Docking

• Received goods can be matched with specific customer orders.
• Merchandise can be purchased from suppliers and allocated to specific customers.

Inventory Management

• Stock transfers to new storage locations.
• Authorized users can modify the inventory (build new pallets, returns etc).
• Transfer quantities from picking areas to stock locations.
• Forklifts are guided automatically by the system to put-away the merchandise to proper storage locations.
• Authorized forklift users can manually transfer merchandise to new storage locations.
• In case of some defective or below quality control inventory, temporary suspension of warehouse movements can be achieved by using storage location or inventory blocking.

Cycle Counting

Perform counting of physical inventory in an efficient way, with minimum disruption to warehouse operations. Counting can be done in a flexible way, using various scenarios.

• Per product.
• Per product picking area.
• Per product group.
• Per storage location.
• Per storage section.
• Real-time monitoring of cycle counting and controlling of inventory discrepancies.
• Stock pallets and picking area counting are performed using RFs.
• History data by product, operator, storage location.

Storage Locations (Stock / Picking Areas) Management

Configure attributes of warehouse space for efficient management.

• Storage systems (back-to-back, drive In, drive through, block stacking, bins etc.).
• Storage locations map (aisle / level / column etc.).
• Product groups.
• Storage sections.
• Storage locations grouped by section.
• Storage sections by product group.
• Product classification that defines at which locations goods can be stored.
• Storage location label printing.

Warehouse Staff and RFs Administration

Control and authorization of resources (human, forklifts, RFs, machines etc).

• Pickers
• Forklift operators
• System managers
• Logistics managers
• Receipts personnel

Warehouse Tasks Control and Tracking

• Schedule jobs per forklift.
• Tracking of inventory movements.
• Tracking of receiving and put-away jobs.
• Tracking and controlling of pending jobs.
• Pallet label printing.
• Warehouse and system events viewer.

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