Customised warehouse management system

Warehouse Management System

Warehouse Management System interface showing inventory and storage operations

As a trusted name among warehousing companies in India, Impact Logistics Solutions’ Warehouse Management System (WMS) helps businesses efficiently control and administer warehouse operations from the time goods or materials enter until they move out. Operations in a warehouse include inventory management, picking processes, and auditing.

WMS provides visibility into an organization's inventory at any time and location, whether in a facility or distributor. It can also manage supply chain operations from the manufacturer or wholesaler to the warehouse, then to a retailer or distributor.

Impact Logistics Solutions’ WMS is often used alongside or integrated with a Transportation Management System (TMS) and Inventory Management System to deliver end-to-end control and visibility across the supply chain.

WMS Benefits

Although a WMS is complex and expensive to implement and run, customer gain benefits that can justify the complexity and costs. Implementing a WMS can help an organization reduce labour costs, improve inventory accuracy, improve flexibility and responsiveness, decrease errors in picking and shipping goods, and improve customer service.

The customer can handle the most up-to-date information because our WMS operates with real-time data.

Compatibility

WMS has extension module to link with other well known ERPs popular in the industry. Linkages available from both sides to automate task that requires huge manual efforts as well as reconcilliation.

Expertise

As a reputed warehousing company, Ash Logistics has an experienced and skilled workforce capable of handling leading ERPs in the supply chain, including SAP, SAP WMS, Oracle, Baan, JD Edwards, and Tally

Transparency

Integrating Blockchain with WMS ensures real-time, tamper-proof records of inventory and transactions. This builds trust among stakeholders and reduces disputes in the supply chain.

Efficiency

WMS powered with smart contracts on Blockchain can automate repetitive logistics processes, such as verification, approval, and invoicing, significantly reducing operational time and cost.

Traceability

Blockchain-enabled WMS provides end-to-end traceability of goods — from origin to delivery — ensuring better product authenticity, quality control, and regulatory compliance.

Key Points

Key features and benefits of Warehouse Management System (WMS)

Features Of WMS

Warehouse Design

Warehouse design enables organizations to customize workflow and picking logic to make sure that the warehouse is designed for optimized inventory allocation. The WMS establishes bin slotting that maximizes storage space and accounts for variances in seasonal inventory.

Inventory Tracking

Inventory Tracking enables the use of advanced tracking systems, including Radio-Frequency Identification (RFID), Automatic Identification and Data Capture (AIDC) and barcode scanners to make sure that goods can be found easily when they need to move.

Dispatch

Dispatching enables the WMS to send bills-of-lading (B/L) ahead of the shipment, generate packing lists and invoices for the shipment and send advance shipment notifications to recipients.

Labour management

Labour Management helps warehouse managers monitor workers' performance by using key performance indicators (KPIs) that indicate workers who perform above or below standards.

Receiving and put-away

Receiving and put-away allows inventory put-away and retrieval, often with pick-to-light or pick-to-voice technology to help warehouse workers locate goods.

Yard and dock management

Yard and dock management assist truck drivers coming into a warehouse to find the right loading docks. A more complex use of yard and dock management enables cross-docking.

Picking and packing goods

Packing goods including zone picking, wave picking and batch picking. Warehouse workers can also use lot zoning and task interleaving functions to guide the pick-and-pack tasks most efficiently.

Reporting

Reporting is crucial for warehousing companies in India, as it helps managers analyze warehouse performance and identify areas for improvement to optimize efficiency and cost-effectiveness.