Warehouse Management System for SAGE X3

DATADEC WMS Software Solution for managing warehouse Integrated with SAGE X3

• Manage conventional or chaotic warehouse.
• Get appropriate location. Apply sequentially filters and prioritize results, according to different criteria, to obtain the most suitable storing location:
  • - More than 25 algorithms for input goods.
  • - More than 25 algorithms for output goods.
• Organize the operators´ tasks. The system prioritizes operators work.
• Get the optimal itinerary for getting and leaving goods.
• Integrated with Mecalux, Ulma, Thyssen, Sislog. It is possible to implement new integrations with any other  Systems.
• Internal shipping. Inter-site shipping.
• Cross-docking.
• Radio-Frequency based user interface

DEFINITION OF TASKS

MAIN PARAMETERS TO AUTOMATIZE TASK-OPERATORS PRIORITY Areas of the warehouse in which every operator usually works, type of activity (allocate, picking to complete customer order, serve to plant, counts, load lorry, …).

RF. All the orders are received and reported in RF device, so all data flows in real time. Reduce errors due to the fact that SSCC, locations and finally all movements can be double-check.

PRINT LABELS FROM THE RF DEVICE

COLLECT INFORMATION: all this information is gathered in DATADEC WMS hence it can be analyzed afterwards. There are always points to improve all the procedures. Several KPI can be calculated with this information like average time for issuing, Occupancy Rate, time spent in every activity, lack of activity, …

REPORT OTHER KIND OF ACTIVITIES: Miscellaneous activity is possible to report in RF. Some examples are machine repairing, batteries changing, ...

ANDROID DEVICES ARE BEING INCORPORATED In the roadmap is expected to connect directly to DATADEC WMS and even to develop Android APP, which would work in offline mode, to use instead of RF.

LOCATING AND ISSUING RULES

LOCATION RULES AND ISSUING RULES. These rules allow to set up the way you need all goods are distributed in your Warehouse.

• More than 25 locating rules. ABC, according to product characteristics, half-full of a location, proximity, etc.
• More than 25 issuing rules. Select regarding of height, location which has the least quantity of product and enough for delivering, FEFO, LIFO, FIFO, ETC.

CROSS-DOCKING. If there is someone waiting for the goods, just issue it without allocating. It is also possible to define the behavior of the WMS in case there is less product than what is needed.

OPTIMIZE THE OPERATOR´S ITINERARY, The used algorithm for calculating this are Floyd-Warshall y Traveling Salesman Problem.

DATADEC WMS will create all intermediate points with all locations to pick up sequent goods.

PLAN AND PREPARE THE ISSUING

ORDERS MANAGEMENT: Plan how to deliver all customer orders which come from X3 regarding dates, agencies, customers, routes and prioritize according to a great variety of restrictions such as deadlines, volume, weigh, routes. There is a useful tool to simulate all the customer delivering plan which facilitates to make decisions.

PREPARATION ORDER MANAGEMENT: Group operator´s orders for every preparation process. Follow up in X3 the status (generated, confirmed, preparing, palletizing, pre-load, loading, loaded, delivering note) of the progress of this preparation since DATADEC WMS informs in time to X3.

PICKING EVALUATION: Several orders should be complemented with unpacked articles to meet the whole quantity of the order. Operator´s orders are generated with the optimized process to pick them up. Ways of picking:

• Picking according to the route. The priority is to complete all the picking with the least itinerary.
• Picking to deliver the vast majority of pallets. In this case, the priority is to issue the maximum number of pallets, despite the itinerary might not be the best.

LOAD PALLET. Pallet could be referred to multiple articles. Correspondent labels are printed for the pallet (logistic group). All customer restrictions are ensured to meet in this step of the process.

WORK ORDER ISSUE

ISSUE TO MANUFACTURE (partial or total) all work orders of raw materials, components or half-manufactured products are assigned to operators through RF devices in order to make internal movements.
All the work is perfectly coordinated to serve to the plant in the right time.

ORDERS GENERATION: all operator´s orders are created and delivered to the operators in order to pick up the product and serve it to the plant. When the production process is finished, operators receive the appropriate orders in RF to allocate the product according to a set of rules or to cross-dock. All the process is really optimized.

ALLOCATING FROM THE PLANT: There are several rules for allocating goods from the plant. This material may be labelled or not. Several orders to the operators are distributed to allocate the good by the optimized route or just cross-dock since there are customer orders awaiting.
All the work is reported through the RF and DATADEC WMS is collecting the information and delivering new tasks.

COUNTS

COUNTS AND DOCUMENTATION by different ways such as warehouse, areas, range of references, product families, … Before making the counting, DATADEC WMS reads from X3 the cost of every product and make the report with the gaps in units and costs. Automatically, this information is sent to X3 and make the miscellaneous receipts or issues.

REPORT COUNTS may be done manually with a list or reading bar codes with RF. This count is done specifically for every location with RF device, reading the location, the pallet and the detail of what it contains.

UPDATE COUNTS make regularizations movements in DATADEC WMS and X3 in order to reflect the real situation of the inventory.

COUNT IMMEDIATELY when an operation is done and it is detected some gap between how many items should be and the real quantity, a count order is sent in this moment and make the miscellaneous regularization in order to have the real situation in DATADEC WMS and X3.

PERIODIC COUNTS regular control are necessary, so DATADEC WMS send orders to the operators to count the existences regularly, with a specific period.

REPORTS necessary reports to X3 are sent. However, the information gathered in DATADEC is deeper since it is possible to find upon the counts by SSCC. For being able to report the value of the products, the cost is taking from X3 just before the inventory orders are generated.

MULTIPLE CRITERIA TO SEE INFORMATION ABOUT STOCK:

• Stock by site, warehouse, product, … in a tree mode visualization. It is possible to drill down to gather information about the locations, sublocations, Lot, SSCC, pallet,...
• Stock by product, counts by warehouse, locations, pallets, SSCC. LOT, …
• Stock assignment in every moment made for a customer, plants, inter-site movements, … It is also possible to see the reservation by warehouse, area, LOT, SSCC,…
• Graphic map of the stock.

REPORTS FOR MANAGING WAREHOUSES counts by date, stock valuations using X3 criteria and values, availability, movements, rotations, ...

Complete analysis of all your WMS KPI

• The dashboard is supported by BI Oracle in SaaS and On-premise installation.
• The WMS Dashboard offer you accurate information in the right moment, thus it is easy to make right decisions.
• This technology is responsive, it is multi-device.
• WMS manager can focus on what is really important, the success of WMS.
• Some reports could be based on analyzing bottle-necks, performance of every operator, spent time in every type of task, goods movements, stock by every dimension, …
• At the same time, all required information is sent to SAGE X3, so additionally you can use Crystal Reports.