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Faced with today's warehouse distribution challenges, such as customer compliance initiatives, increased inventory and order volumes, and multiple distribution channels, many process manufacturers recognize the need to move beyond their standard enterprise inventory control functions.
Ross Enterprise's warehouse management module enables you to handle more fulfillment volume and provide more differentiated fulfillment services without having to invest in additional physical assets, space or staff. The key advantages over Ross Enterprise's inventory control and data collection capabilities are its ability to manage and optimize labor and equipment utilization across all warehouse distribution activities, in order to deliver maximum throughput and performance.
Streamline your Warehouse Distribution Operations
Armed with accurate, up-to-date information and enhanced warehouse distribution capabilities, your departments can perform their jobs more effectively. Individuals can make smarter business decisions and align their activities with other departments, which can impact your company's bottom-line.
With Ross Enterprise's warehouse management application, you will be able to:
- Meet industry mandates and customer compliance requirements
- Reduce customer charge-backs and returns
- Increase on-time order shipments
- Increase order shipment accuracy
- Manage increased order volume with existing labor force
- Forecast and balance labor force
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- Reduce additional shifts and overtime
- Increase inventory turn
- Improve space utilization
- Eliminate safety stock
- Defer facility expansion and capital expenditures
- Gain full visibility into your order fulfillment process
- Going beyond the basic enterprise receiving, picking, and shipping functions, Ross Enterprise's warehouse management application enables you to achieve a faster and more efficient flow of goods through your facility as a result of inventory and labor optimization.
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Synchronizing Inventory and Labor to Improve Order Fulfillment
Building upon the strength of Ross Enterprise's enterprise track and trace capabilities, Ross Enterprise's warehouse management module tracks every unit in the warehouse down to its lowest level of detail, including lot number, serial number and date codes. By applying operational rules against these inventory attributes and order demand, the right inventory will be in the right location at the right time to maximize user productivity to shorten order fulfillment cycles.
Clients with fixed transportation schedules benefit from the warehouse management module's unique wave processing capabilities. As orders are received by the warehouse management module, they are automatically grouped together, based upon user defined criteria, which in this case is order shipment parameters. Ross Enterprise's warehouse management dynamically optimizes inventory allocation and system generated tasks (e.g. pick and replenishment tasks) for all pending orders in the system. This automatic route wave processing feature quickly delivers an executable order fulfillment plan, reducing the workload on the line managers and schedulers.
Cross-docking from the manufacturing line and outside suppliers increases throughput and expedite existing back orders. Pre-destined containers identified in Advanced Shipping Notice (ASN) are directed to designated staging and dock doors. Whenever inbound goods can meet replenishment or picking requirements, these goods can be opportunistically cross-docked thus avoiding the double handling of goods.
Kitting and assembly, and value added services (such as RFID tagging) give companies the ability to meet specific needs of their customers. Pushing product and packaging customization to the end of the order fulfillment cycle best utilizes available inventory, reduces double handling of customized products and its storage requirements.
Workload planning and balancing is simplified with the dynamic workload monitor that offers drill down views of workloads across functional areas and zones. "What if scenarios" involving time and labor variables, enable managers to allocated resources across the warehouse to increase productivity—not headcount—and reduce labor costs.
Alert notification is an important component of the warehouse management module's production monitoring capabilities. When an imbalance exists between allocated resources and workload or should a user defined alarm level be met, graphical and email alerts are issued to the appropriate staff, so that they can resolve the issues before they negatively impact current operations.
To access a wide range of downloadable content on the Ross SCE applications, please visit the System Overview Data Sheets section on one of our industry-specific resource libraries. And please remember that regardless of your specialty as a process manufacturer, we would like nothing better than for you to talk to a current client whose business falls in your area of expertise or have you contact us directly with any questions.