Planning for a warehouse management system
Designing and
implementing a WMS is often complex. Project planning is critical
to the success of any WMS installation. The project requires a
close working relationship between the supplier and the warehouse
management team in order to ensure that the project is delivered
smoothly with minimal interruption to the daily supply chain
processes.
Every warehouse will operate in a different manner and
accommodating these different approaches is a key advantage of
Jatech's WMS over other products. Because the WMS is tailored to
suit your specific company requirements it follows the way you
work, rather than you having to change your working
processes.
The first part of implementation involves mapping the physical
dimensions of your racking and bays into the WMS. Any
specialist rules will then be applied, for example certain
forklifts may not be able to fit down narrow aisles so the system
will ensure that only warehouse staff who are licensed for these
trucks receive picking orders for products in these aisles. All bay
constraints such as size and weight will also apply to all stock
movements such as putting away, picking and moving stock.
User accounts are then created within the system for those staff
requiring access to the data. Handheld scanners logins are created
- staff will then receive picking orders based on their login. This
also ensures that staff can only see scanner menu items that have
been allocated to them. There is also the added benefit that
a scanner is not tied into an individual user - any user can log
into any scanner.
We normally recommend that a trial WMS is run in conjunction
with the existing manual system so the warehouse management team
can assist in the implementation, ensuring that all processes work
correctly.
The Jatech WMS has been designed by, and for our customers from
the ground up, ensuring the system is as easy to operate as
possible, despite the complexity of the software running behind the
scenes.