Warehousing and Stock Control

Warehousing

  • Warehouse Map can show activity by area, detailing ‘Hot Spots’ allowing warehouse managers to profile bin locations
  • Users can drive processes from the selected locations on the map e.g. replenishments, stock takes

Warehouse Map

  • Flexible picking options allow use of several different methods within the same warehouse
  • Picking performance analysis
  • Stock taking cycles by perpetual inventory or by wall-to-wall
  • Optional automatic despatch of sales orders on receipt of goods for supplier directs and cross dock orders
  • Automatic or manual picking bin replenishments
  • Inter Warehouse transfer processes including picking and transit documentation
  • Full flexibility in picking and packaging process, including pick by route, despatch method, due dates, individual order, weight and service levels or any combination of these criteria
  • Delivery routing by postcode and despatch method
  • Comprehensive customer returns and supplier rejections functionality
  • Goods Inwards quality control can be activated to run against particular suppliers and/or product codes for monitoring sub-standard performance
  • Full batch and pallet traceability allowing for the isolation of suspect stock and associated receipts and deliveries
  • Dynamic suspension of bin locations where quality or quantity is suspect with user defined reason codes
  • Some standard interfaces with main parcel carries including automated carrier labels

Excise Duty Warehousing

  • Separation of Duty-Free and Duty-Paid products
  • HMRC Declarations and standard inter bond movement documentation
  • Conversion of Duty-Free to Duty-Paid

Stock Control

  • Shows layered view of stock data by role

Product Enquiry

  • Helps you to keep stock holding to a minimum whilst ensuring that you can meet customer demand for rapid order turnaround
  • Easy search on stock items using all/part of the stock code, description, product group, bin location and other key information including a partial word search on description
  • Full stock movement and costing history with product traceability
  • Out of stock messages routed to stock controller when demand exceeds supply
  • Dynamic re-order triggers and minimum/maximum re-order mechanism
  • Calculation of stock levels and valuations using current/standard/average and FIFO costing
  • Full batch traceability, monitoring of shelf life and slow moving stock
  • Multiple serial number tracking against products

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