Our approach to the implementation of INFOR WM (EXCEED WMS)
Each implementation project WMS (Warehouse Management System) has its own unique features. Today we want to share with you the peculiarities of the implementation of one of the most interesting projects lately.
- During the project implementation WMS INFOR system for warehouse complexes of one of the Russian 3PL-operators and distributors held a deep analysis of business processes and optimized technology of accounting work with customers and suppliers. This has reduced the time to process documents and reduce the number of errors in the design on the side of the Customer's accounting system at the stage of preparation for implementation. That is effect has been achieved by consulting, due to the reorganization of business processes, without taking into account the effect of the introduction of the WMS-system.
- The project was drawn up full formal list of rules destination warehouse processing strategies based on data from the accounting system. It streamlined the processes of warehouse handling, to bring them to a finite number of standard schemes and to simplify the procedure for the introduction of new assortment positions.
- For clients have been set up individual rules for the selection of goods in the shipment by expiration dates and types of pallets. This has allowed to adapt flexibly to customer requirements, to eliminate the "human factor" and assign the execution and control to the warehouse management system.
- The project involved shipments management functionality. The warehouse management system includes job selection for vehicle delivery and controls the movement of collected pallets shipped to the gate. The system analyzes the type of business (product owner), the type of client (consignee) and on the basis of prescribed formal rules applies the appropriate scheme for the assembly and shipment. Depending on the requirements of system gives job nasborku Orders separately for each client (VIP-clients), separately for each machine with the division of the goods on request (standard circuit) or consolidated selections on the selection once all the goods on the orders of a delivery vehicle (high-turnover goods , beer, etc.).
- Processing returns to the delivery of the goods is an urgent problem for many distributors. Timely processing "is not shipped goods" on consignment delivery, and receive returns from the warehouse freight forwarders in real time consuming significant human resources to non-profit work. When working with the dedicated sales teams from the manufacturer, the problem is significantly aggravated by the absence of effective levers of influence on the quality of the preparation of orders. The project for the customer company has developed and implemented technological process which provides high speed processing of returns, while maintaining the accuracy of the account. When placing the product with the return involved a strategy of accommodation received the goods, characterized by placing the right goods to the supply.
- The project launched functionality provides the ability to inventory without interrupting warehouse in compliance with the formal rules of the inventory. Warehouse personnel can receive property inventory and to engage in analysis of the problem positions without stopping the warehouse. Warehouse staff really begins to answer for the fact of availability of goods in stock, rather than accounting errors. There is a shared responsibility. Store is responsible for the goods. Accounting Staff - for the correctness of accounting. This functionality is exclusive to Logicon. In none WMS it no*.
Explanation:
All WMS systems have a particular functional WMS provides data leading to the facts of the quantity of goods. Typically, this is accomplished through the cell conversion interfaces, product, product group, etc. In some cases (such as INFOR) has even a semblance of inventory. In this case, the results of recalculations not immediately taken into the system, and only after confirmation on their workstation.
BUT! It's not an inventory! This reduction WMS data to the fact! It's just an adjustment balances!
Inventory is:
1) stops the operation of a warehouse or a separate zone.
2) All documents are recorded in the accounting system, and put in order.
3) From the accounting system and print out the Property Survey collation statement.
4) Employees converted warehouse goods. If large differences are found, once again converted. Check the records in the accounting system. Correct the error. Reprinted Property Survey and collation statements, etc. while warehouse workers do not sign the Property Survey and collation statements.
5) And only after that permitted the continuation of the warehouse (!!!)
6) Penalty shortages to materially responsible persons.
Implementation of WMS allows only not to carry out an operation of translation itself, but everything else is saved. That is yet do p.2-4 warehouse in any case it is worth waiting for. And very often it is waiting for analysis of problems based on the documents, and not counting the goods.
- In order to improve the accuracy of conducting a commodity account is set up the exchange of information between the accounting system and INFOR. The warehouse management system informs the accounting system of all goods movements between warehouses logical "storage", "of marriage", "advertising", etc. On the basis of the actual movement of the goods account, the system automatically generates the documents for the internal movement of goods.
- To monitor the functioning of the regular warehouse management systems set up delivery of emergency alerts the responsible users of the system to e-mail and sms-messages.
