Key features and benefits

Key features

• Download or create inbound deliveries and associated records such as orders, and receive inventory into the factory, validating against the order.
• Download or create outbound shipments and associated records such as orders, and pick inventory to fulfill the delivery.
• Raise internal movement requests and pick inventory to fulfill these replenishment orders.
• Integrate with AGVs to automate the delivery of internal movement requests.
• Define and manage warehouses, internal supermarkets, and local storage areas.
• Perform transactions on mobile scanners, mobiles, and tablets.
• Perform warehouse transactions on inventory, such as split, merge, sort, scrap, reclassify, etc.
• Manage transport groups in the factory, allowing for control over the responsibility for picking and delivering materials.
• Use Advanced Shipping Notifications (ASN) to be aware of inbound inventory in advance.
• Relabel incoming inventory if the supplier does not conform to appropriate internal labeling standards.
• Integrate with ERP by downloading inbound and outbound deliveries, and sending back confirmations once actions are completed.

Benefits

• End-to-end traceability, up and down the tree, through all transactions performed against inventory.
• Track received inventory back to the supplier if there is a quality issue.
• Support investigation into customer complaints or recalls.
• Quickly identify inventory that needs to be isolated in the event of a supplier recall or in-production issue.
• Perform transactions on mobile scanners, mobiles, and tablets.
• Eliminate errors by only allowing the correct materials to be picked, moved, and shipped.
• Limit the overall application landscape by avoiding the need for a third-party warehouse management system, which would require an additional purchase, support, infrastructure, interfacing, and ongoing maintenance.
• Increase efficiency through better organization of shipping and internal deliveries.
• Reduce work in progress (WIP) by using material movement requests to move the inventory to production at the right time.
• Easily identify pending inbound deliveries and expected delivery dates when raw material stock is running low.
• Identify planned outbound shipment volumes to help plan production and shipping activities.
• Integrate with an ERP system to download planned delivery details automatically and avoid manual data entry.
• Automatically issue confirmations back to ERP when deliveries are received or shipped to avoid manual data entry and minimize mistakes.
• Align stock levels when actions such as partial scrap of an inventory pack are performed, ensuring the financial impact is accurately reflected in ERP.
• Protect operations from ERP outages, with a responsive and locally available MES application.

Some benefits are only available when combined with functionality in other modules.