Digital transformation has become a new growth engine for the development of manufacturing enterprises. However, in reality, manufacturing companies lack strategic planning for digital transformation, and the value of information technology business is insufficient. Facing the long-term system engineering of digital transformation, it is urgent to find a suitable transformation path and corresponding information system, especially under the current epidemic situation.
In the current environment, the process of an enterprise's digital upgrade is related to the cooperation and symbiosis between the upstream and downstream parties of the supply chain. If you want to open up the relationship between the upstream and downstream of the supply chain and manage it from a global perspective, good warehouse management is the key.
The cloud watch WMS system is based on the supply chain network design and integrates the sophisticated business models of the industry to assist companies in solving various challenges in the warehouse operation process, which can improve inventory accuracy, increase warehouse operation power, and reduce costs.
Highlights of the main functions of the WMS system
1. Basic data: divide and set the warehouse and warehouse area, location group; provide batch processing attribute check, activity cost method classification, data dictionary and other settings.
2. Product management: supply the settings of product categories, products, packaging, and BOM components;
3. Strategic management: including serial number rules, acceptance control, placement strategy, distribution strategy, compensation strategy, etc.
4. Warehousing: support the creation of technology and import the warehousing list ASN, and provide the function of printing the warehousing list and product barcode. Support pallet management, and complete receiving and shelf operations according to the predetermined shelf strategy.
5. Warehouse management: It mainly includes functions such as inventory counting, code conversion, inventory transfer, return application, plate disassembly and assembly. At the same time, an inventory order will be generated after the inventory, which is convenient to view and summarize the inventory products.
6. Outbound management: Waves can be generated, wave plans can be made, and batch picking operations and secondary sorting can be completed according to the set picking strategy. At the same time, the system displays the position of the lower shelf and prioritizes the earlier products.
7. Replenishment management: support temporary storage and delivery operations. According to the configuration and replenishment strategy, replenishment tasks are triggered at multiple points, and efficient picking and stocking can be realized through multiple replenishment methods to meet the needs of fast delivery or assembly operations on the production line.
8. Value-added services: Through corresponding policy settings, operations such as processing, decomposition, and support can be realized.
9. Early warning processing: complete inventory deadline warning, inventory warning, shelf life warning, replenishment warning and other operations.
10. Batch processing: up to 15 product batch attributes, including: packaging, standard, supplier, origin, color, batch, batch, production date, shelf life, etc. It can make up for the ERP system's inability to distinguish the materials and guide operations in detail
11. API handling: It can be seamlessly integrated with SAP ERP, MES, SRM, TMS and other systems to achieve real-time consistency of multi-system data.
It can be seen that improving the level of warehousing management through the WMS system can better open up the upstream and downstream connections of the supply chain and help production companies complete digital transformation faster.