Arrivals

• Unplanned and planned receipts
• Link delivery with purchase orders
• Record unique delivery reference / consignment note numbers
• Receive from end of production line
• Track receipts through pre-put-away stages
• Text note to deliveries
• EDI pre-advice
• Works order pre-advice
• Receive against Purchase Order and Works Order
• Product accuracy and quality check
• Returned goods

Receiving

• Allow blind or sighted checking
• Record receipt (and return) of storage media by (optional) serial number pallets, bins etc)
• Auto quarantine/positive release
• Best before/batch/production date
• Serial number recording
• Individual item attribute recording (e.g. multiple reels on a pallet)
• Proof of receipt/documentation
• Allow receipts without documentation

Storage Rules

• Velocity / ABC
• Environmental (temperature, humidity, hazardous material)
• Product and code mix
• Demand level
• Type of demand (broken case, full case, pallet)
• Dimensions cube and weight
• Batch / lot / serial / control, batch date
• Type of storage device
• Replenishment thresholds
• Different rules for same product depending on quantity
• Stack height, Carton life, Pallet life
• Hanging, Top up, Pick up and deposit (P and D, e.g. narrow aisle) control

Storage Types

• Drive in
• Drive through
• Block
• APR
• Double deep
• Flow through
• Mobile
• Narrow aisle
• Very narrow aisle
• Bins
• Carton glide
• Hanging

Put Away

• System selects best location
• System selects normal location
• Truck driver selects location
• Movement via P and D/feeder
• Auto / priority direct to picking
• Auto / priority direct to out going orders
• Identification via stock code or unique pallet / container ID
• Prevent put away in block stacking area currently being used for picking
• Interleaving of pick, replenishment
• put-away
• Flexible put-away verification
• Flexible performance reporting
• Container types and stocking factors - zones (frozen, chilled, ambient, ABC)
• Bulk/ pick/marshalling areas
• Location access constraints
• Temperature levels
• Pick-faces
• Urgent order handling
• User selected
• Automated storage

Pick Face Replenishment

• Minimum stock balance in location following allocation (allow multiple pallet positions for fast moving product)
• Dynamic picking locations for slow moving product automatically or manually initiate replenishment
• Top up replenishment by case, layer, full pallet dynamic pick face replenishment
  -Product definition (seasonal,cyuclical, normal)
  -Current demands
  -Storage capacity
  -Stock availability
  -User defined rules
  -Handling categories
  -Selectable number of days for historical analysis
  -Selectable number of days storage

Quality Control

• Sampling requirements specification
• Product re-grading
• Q C hold - reasons
• Incubation - curing
• Best before / sell by
• Scrap - reason / history
• Product test
  -Min / max against user defined criteria
  -Pass / fail decision for pallet / batch
• Barcode verification - case, item
• Hold by product, date, location, batch

Full Pallet/ Container Retrieval

• System identifies pallet to be retrieved
• Truck driver identifies pallet to be retrieved
• Retrieved via P and D.
• Tracking to destination
• Interleaved with put away
• Retrieved by oldest / batch / required date / nearest / order number

Item Retrieval/ Picking

• Auto replenishment
• Consolidated picks
• Heavy / large picks first
• Retrieved by oldest / batch / required date / nearest / order number
• Order pooling
• Rationing / back orders
• Product Substitution
• Promotional product differentiation
• Serial number recording
• Analyse order pool and optimise
• Pick activity based on pick rates, available equipment available manpower, available stock
• Pick wave planning
• Orders classified by overdue, due X days
• Order by customer
• Order by delivery zone
• Pick accuracy
• Orders picked per man per hour
• Items picked per man per hour

Despatch Control

• Record actual truck departure
• Record serial numbers if not recorded
• Record catch weights etc
• Record chargeable containers / pallet
• Order staging prior to despatch
• Creation of shipping labels, documents manifest
• Transfer of orders / carriers
• Stage in reverse drop sequence
• Scan onto vehicle
• Generate trailer map
• Generate despatch documentation
  - Total weight, total cube

Returns

• QC hold
• Pre - advice / clearance of returns
• Returns documentation
• Part used returns (e.g. reels, pallets returned for production)
• Re-grade

Stock Check

• Cycle counting
  -By time
  -Movement history
  -Mandatory, counting interval stock
• Blind counts
• More than a defined number of location visits since last count
• More than x months since last count

Stock Hierarchy/ Coding

• Vehicle / load
• Pallet
• Layer
• Case
• Inner
• Single
• Allow for product grade, product configuration, customised products
• Units of measure, e.g. metres, Kg etc

Stock Ownership

• Own stock
• Customers stock
• Suppliers stock
• Quarantined stock

Reports

• Stock by owner
• Stock by sell by date
• Stock movement
• Stock scrapped
• Stock by batch / rotation
• Stock by product code
• Stock by product group
• Low stock, zero stock
• Slow moving stock
• Stock transfer

Traceability

• Lot / batch / serial number / pallet / purchase order / works order

Physical Warehouse

• Multi site
• Multi warehouse
• Multi zone
• Multi location
• Super PI
  -user confiugrable criteria

Material Handling Equipment interface etc.

• PLCs
• ASRs
• Weighscales

Management Reports

• Despatch throughput
• Warehouse stock
• Warehouse utilisation
• Items / orders picked
• Items / orders despatched

Miscellaneous Requirements

• Invoicing for S H and D
• Space occupied
• Movement / handling activity
• Operations charging
• Event handling
• Event scheduler

General Requirements

• Support RDTs, PDTs, peel off labels
• Record variable items on pallets (e.g. reels)
• Record serialised items on pallets
• Provide general bin store control (fifo traceability)
• Provide traceability
• Allow multiple and different units of measure
• Multi client
• Multi warehouse
• Mix of products, owners, batches
• expiry date, lots, stock condition
• Conversion / packaging operations