Interfaced to a business system or as a standalone, the WCS is an industry leading warehouse management system.
With barcode scanners and screens optimized for specific business needs, the WCS manages all aspects of material movement into, out of, and inside your warehouses and manufacturing operations.
For batch operations, low volumes, or business with budgetary constraints, we recommend SupplySync as a better alternative.
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ERP/ business system independent - Interfaces to a wide variety of "off the shelf" business software and, through our "Workstation Automation" tool, even homegrown solutions.
Extends business systems (ERP, etc.) that don't support serialization, lots, sublots, catch weights, pallets, containers-in-containers, pallet hold , partial holds, items and pallet status, etc.
Resolves "finger pointing". Operations Technologies has achieved partner status with many ERP and business solution vendors using, when available, certified interfaces. If a problem ever should arise, we assume default responsibility. If the problem is ours, we will fix it. If the problem is elsewhere, we will diagnose it and document the specifics then work with the appropriate people to help to correct it.
Highly configurable - can be easily tailored in over a million possible ways with no code changes.
A flexible systems architecture. Our suite allows for highly centralized or completely decentralized architecture - choosing between a single enterprise server, a local server on each site, or a combination depending on the best fit of service and support requirements.
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Dock Door Scheduling by load type and arrival time
Automates the receiving process and prints bar code labels on demand
Tracks and controls materials in receiving and inspection
Receives against a PO reporting and adjusting as allowed and necessary
Receives against an ASN
Allows miscellaneous receipts
Single step or two step putaway of incoming material
Supports a paperless receiving process
Reuses shipper's pallet ids if desired
Supports cross-reference vendor numbers/lots/sublots and expiration date and create corresponding internal numbers - optional barcode labels
Automatic quarantine if desired
Expedites delivery of material to production
Provides online validation of purchase order details
Tracks receipt of goods by item, container or pallet
Performance and productivity by task
ASN supplier receipts
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Automates picking, put-away and transfer operations
Proposes put away tasks according to your warehouse navigation rules
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Plans and prioritizes stocking based on user defined rules
Schedules and monitors warehouse resources
Real time alerts of potential problems
Prioritizes orders and tracks picking status
Supports inventory management by lot, container, and serial number
Supports sublots, catch weights, etc
Provides paperless processing of physical inventories and cycle counting
Supports task interleaving
Facilitates container and pallet build functions
Manages zone, volume, cube and equipment limitations
FIFO, FEFO, etc, material selection process
Configurable rules for overriding system selected material
Allows electronic quarantine of any defective products or parts
Supports quality hold and release by lot, serial number or container
Supports quality hold and release by sublot
Prevents shipments of defective products
Minimizes quality containment campaigns and product recalls
Provides quick search capability and pinpoints location of defective products
Maintains quality details for FDA, AIAG, GMP and DOD compliance
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Picks against ERP or WCS generated pick tickets
Ad-hoc picking against a WCS generated pick ticket
Facilitates material allocation and shortage control
Forward pick and replenishment
Supports Batch and Wave picking
Schedules automatic inventory replenishment
Prevents issuance of "on hold" goods
Pick and pack
One or two step pick and drop
Kitting
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Supports physical and cycle counting by container and serial numbers
Supports physical and cycle counting by location, lots
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Schedules and delivers "best decision" raw material for production
Records consumption of actual items/lots/sublot/containers
Records production and creates barcode labels
Maintains full chain traceability
Material for multiple production orders to be picked, staged, and delivered at the same time
Simplified issuing of ingredients to batches via barcodes
Supports paperless kanban movements
Real-time analysis of ingredient variances for improved quality
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Supports a complete paperless shipping process
Synchronized replenishment and dispatching in response to customer demand
Manages pick processes, schedules and kitting
Supports packing and weighing processes
Spotlights and tracks high priority customer orders
Facilitates material allocation and shortage control to customer demand
Supports ASN customer shipments and transmits ASNs via EDI or Internet
Optional links to FedEx, UPS and other traffic and routing systems
Prints product and customer labels on demand with shipping documents
Links shipment contents to containers and pallets via a single bar code scan
Supports UPC, HIBC, AIAG and PDG bar code labeling formats
Prints pick and pack slips, pallet labels, manifests, and bills-of-lading
Supports pallet, package and container tracking
Supports quality hold and release by lot, serial number or container
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Records and stores receiving, production, and shipping data for FDA 306 and other traceability requirements.
Typical compliance features include :
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Inventory and Traceability
'---InventoryAtAGlance (Shows item and hold info, location for all pallets)
'---LotTraceability (Complete history – what lot went into and what went into it, when a lot was received, when & who shipped to, who touched it, etc.)
'---InvDet (For each lot, shows location, lot, unit, qty, last cycle)
'---InvList (shows item, unit, lot, qty, last cycle)
'---InvLoc (For location, shows item, unit, lot, qty, last cycle)
'---InvRecCS (Inventory Recon Report By Case)
'---InvRecISP (Inventory Recon Report By Item)
'---InvRecIt (Inventory Recon Report By Item)
'---InvRecLSP (Inventory Recon Report By Item)
'---InvRecSL (Inventory Recon Report By Item)
'---InvSum (By pallet, lot. Shows qty vs. allocated, cycle)
'---IRLEITEM (Inventory Recon Report By Item)
'---IRSLSUM (Inventory Recon Report By Item; adds up sublots)
'---IRWHITEM (Inventory Recon Report By Item)
'---IRWHLOC (Inventory Recon Report by Location, Item)
'---ProdLot NEW WIP (Production Summary by Lot)
'---lotdet (Lot Movement Detail)
'---lotsum (Lot Movement Summarized)
Load Scheduling
'---CarDisp (Shows shipping/receiving traffic)
'---DispStat (Shipping/Receiving traffic)
'---TrkSched (1 page schedule of Inbound/Outbound trucks)
'---AuthSlip (Authorization Slip for Truck Driver Confirmation)
'---AuthSlipInbound
'---ShippingLicences
'---WCS-BOL (Bill of Lading)
Order
'---OrdShip (Shipping Report)
'---OrdConf (Pick Confirm Report)
'---OrdPick (Pick to Ship Report)
'---OrdRecv (Purchase Order Report)
'---OrdStat (Order Status Report)
'---OrdSum (Order Summary Report)
'---OpenOrders (List of Open Orders)
'---ShippedOrders (List of Shipped Orders)
'---ProdPick (Pick for Production)
Transaction History
---logDet (Detail line of each transaction by user or ERP, btp, etc...)
---logGen (Summary line of each transaction by user or ERP, btp, etc...)
'---logPick (Pick History)
'---logPkRecv Shared report:
Pick Issue Report
'---mover (Mover History by User)
'---moverng (Mover History by User)
'---MoverReceipt (Mover History by User)
'---User (User List w/permissions)
'---wadet (Work Assignment Detail Report (production, recv, ship))
Warehouse Optimization
'---ABCMove (Shows what gets moved the most)
'---PartInv (Shows pallets that could be consolidated)
'---ConsolidationByItem (Shows Items that could be consolidated; pallets that can't be consolidated don't show on the report)
'---InventoryOnHold
'---InvForOpenOrders (Shows how much inventory you have available for Open Orders)
'---WhLocCapacity (Shows how much space is available for additional pallets for each location)
'---PartialsForOpenOrders (Instructs workers on how many partials they need to have available for pick-for-ships)
'---InvAgeLoc (Shows Aging Inventory by Location)
'---InvAgeLot (by Lot)
'---InvAgeUnit (by Pallet)
Cycle Counting
'---CycDet (Cycle Counting Detail By Set)
'---CycDetnu (Cycle Counting Detail By Set)