APPLICATIONS IN THE WAREHOUSE MANAGEMENT DOMAIN

Applications in the Warehouse Management Domain



Applications in the Warehouse Management Domain

In the globally competitive and dynamic business world of the present era, the companies have set their attention on the enhancement and maintaining of the business and of complicated warehousing and supply chain functions. These modern enterprises tend to obtain and attain lower wages, cost of material, and rental costs in local and international areas of the supply chain functions (Bello et al., 2004). The local and cross-border activities of the supply chain management take place when the costs of the products in one region is lesser than that of another, ultimately making the manufacturers go through a line of processes engaging various complex processes of inspection such as the documentation and examinations of the product (Stank, 1997). The materials connected to the manufacturing of the goods are first gathered in the warehouse of third-party logistics before being operated for delivery across the border in particular. Therefore, we can understand that the complex methods are required to be outsourced to attain the heights of professional service. This paper will discuss the fundamentals of warehouse management systems along with the application in this domain.

Warehouse Management System

Warehouse Management System is a control system that provides automation and optimization of all processes of the warehouse company profile. The concept of Warehouse Management System (WMS) fundamentally refers to the performing of on-the-spot verification of operator data entry in order to guarantee error prevention and in stocking, receiving, shipping, and picking that may become a reason of causing lapses in productivity, loss of revenue and declining quality of customer services (Shima, Warkentina, Courtney, Power, Shard, and Carlsson, 2002). The active real-time communication between WMS and the business system assures swift responses and accuracy with the organization and business activities.

The territory of the warehouse is divided into zones by types of manufacturing operations for the automation of procedures: receiving, loading, storage, processing and shipment of goods, which allows you to organize the work of staff at different sites, and effectively allocate responsibilities. Warehouse management system - a single set of equipment that provides the automation and optimization of all processes of the warehouse for any enterprise. The most frequently used in a professional environment logistics, as well as the WMS. In addition, the storage management processes are more automatic system, for example SCM, primarily provides a reduction in inventory reserves, prices and order processing time, and also has many other advantages (Takakuwa, Takizawa, Ito, and Hiraoka, 2000).

With a properly configured user interface functions, modify, transfer and removal of information, and implements all requests to perform various operations, in particular, to receive reports. Another component - the server, it is generally responsible for maintaining and processing information. There is a third component-specific applications (business logic), or more precisely, it returns the user to the server processed the information, signaling through this interface. The most functional automated warehouse logistics is a WMS warehouse management system , which are based on the ...