Warehouse management solution

Receiving

Click Reply™ WM controls and optimises inbound processes based on inbound shipment visibility through to the storage of materials in the warehouse in the best location or the area specified by the system and/or selected by the user.

Inbound Shipment Visibility

Inbound goods prediction can address production or acquisition orders received with different shipments, or effective shipments in terms of packages and/or articles, quantities or other attributes. At the moment of acquisition via EDI, web portal or Excel import, ASN and/or PO interfaces enable total visibility at different levels of aggregation.

Receiving

Registration of documents via reconciliation with ASN and/or PO or, in their absence, direct entry in the shipment system which determines the official reception of the goods.

Cross Docking

Together with "conventional" reception destined for replenishment of warehouse stock (to storage locations or directly to picking), Click Reply™ WM also supports Cross Docking functions, which helps reduce occupation of storage space in the warehouse. In Cross Docking, materials have already been assigned an order when received and so can continue their journey to the end customer with no need for storage.

Returns Processing

Reconciliation with the Delivery Notes document and account status in automatic and user evaluated, rework, de-kitting, re-labelling, identification of appropriate in-warehouse destination, transfer or delivery to customer.

Identification & Put-away

Click Reply™ WM enables control of automated processes and management of the variables and exceptions characteristic of inbound processes, permitting maximum control of qualitative and quantitative accuracy of incoming materials and optimised management of the deposit of goods in the warehouse.

Work flow definition

Since it can handle different requirements within the same site or for the same customer, it can obtain improved performance in terms of activity phases and their follow-up, automated system processes, data to be handled and its mandatory or non-mandatory status. Some examples:

• separation or unification of system and physical reception and allocation phases
  
• separation or unification of deposit and admittance closure phases
  
• execution of jobs using RF terminals, printed lists or labels
  
• automatic repalletisations based on pre-configured rules and guided via web or RF
  
• sorting management based on RF terminals or interface with sorter
  
• multi-step management via frontal and trilateral stackers
  

Put-Away

Manual or automatic allocation rules depending on management strategy, configured to take into account numerous factors such as article classifications, provenance, status and property of map.
Single or multi-article SKU management.

Inbound Services

System-guided transfer to Quality Control as per configured rules (causal, supplier type or other logistics attributes of the incoming goods), determination of quantities to be subjected to control as a percentage of configured incoming quantities, with on-request transfer to Quality Control.

Sorting

Incoming sorting via web, RF or interface with automatic sorter to rationalise put-away operations and warehouse space. Sorting rules and compatibility configured by system and physical status of goods, supplier, owner and wide range of article attributes, map and incoming delivery slip.

Labelling

User-configured content and layout, automatic and/or on-demand generation.

Flow-Through

Temporary parking of material received in by-pass mode, pending order for its immediate shipment to the end customer.

Inventory

The inventory process oversees the optimisation of warehouse space, track and trace, with registration of the correct stock and its owners in single containers, with location and visibility of system-registered stock in total, by status, from incoming goods forecasts to check-out for shipment to the end customer.

Multi Site, Multi Owner

Click Reply™ WM supports articulated logistics operations thanks to multi-site and multi-depositor management: each customer is associated to different maps, storage, withdrawal and internal movement logics. Data viewed is filtered according to user profiles to present only the customer information relevant to the user.

Stock and Map Management

Physical and system warehouse log, system-only warehouse management, internal movements for compacting and relocating, management by batch, version, reception date, release, expiry, quarantine, FIFO. Random and pre-assigned maps.

Replenishment

Generated automatically or on-demand as per analysis and on the basis of minimum and maximum stock levels as configured by article and by location.

Inventory Control

Supported by printed lists or RF functionality, user-commanded physical inventories by different criteria (area, location, articles, system status etc.) enable immediate visibility of system vs. physical situation. Tolerance of quantities and threshold values via immediate generation of successive counts.

Cycle Counting

From inventory class ABC to different article classifications, users can configure the criteria which govern the automatic generation of count records for article sub-groups and goods in stock and execution of counts supported by RF functionality, with no need to interrupt warehouse operations. Corrections are automatic and on-the-fly, on condition that they meet the established tolerance criteria; conversely, they can also be checked, confirmed and deleted.

Kitting, VAS, Serial number

Click Reply™ WM offers a range of functionalities that add value to basic warehouse management for comprehensive coverage of all the operations that today's logistics warehouses are required to perform in their endeavours to meet the increasingly detailed requirements of their customers.

Kitting & De-Kitting

Using work orders received from the interface or imported from Excel and indicating the kit to produce (or to break up) or the different base, or internal generation of orders from the different base, Click Reply™ WM supports and checks kitting both for successive warehouse deposits and for pre-dispatch operations.

Serial Numbers

Scanning serial numbers in reception, delivery and shipment processes, with formal and coherence controls against serial numbers for articles already accepted and/or dispatched; block by serial numbers, article, customer etc. Integration with Kitting / De-Kitting, VAS, Labeling, Component back-flushing.

Value Added Services

Preparation of products for shipping in special configurations (e.g. finished products accompanied by free gifts or instruction booklets, or simply packaging materials) or reprocessing for repackaging of incoming materials according to specific customer requirements.

Component Back-flushing

Control of components and automatic download of components on deposit of the finished product.

Labelling

Labels for Items, kitting, de-kitting, VAS, serial numbers, according to specific requirements. Content and layout can be configured by the user.

Outbound

With Click Reply™ WM, picking and shipment to the end customer is efficient, correct and quick, and can respond to the most diverse requirements.

Shipping Planning

Configuration of shipments, pre-calculation of vector, date of shipment and delivery, pre-calculation of shipment by volume, weight, vector, dispatch. Management of order dispatchability and advanced analysis of orders portfolio.

Automatic Replenishment

Automatic replenishment of stock to reserve area for readying orders for shipment.

Multiple Picking Method

Different picking methods which are inter-compatible and can be user-configured according to certain criteria, driven by printed lists or RF terminals, such as: wave or order picking, container picking, batch picking, single and multiple pick & pack, cluster picking. Integration with packing.

Sorting & Packing

Sorting by order or recipient, integrated with RF packing, packing within packageability limits, pre-calculation of packaging type, weight and volume tolerance, serial numbers of packages, configured printing of package label, packing lists and outward shipping slip.

Shipment Execution & Documentation

Automatic composition of shipment and/or web according to diverse criteria (by package, order, shipping slip, customer, shipment), RF terminal auditing of packages for shipment, composition of shipment with web scan of packages to be loaded, user-configured DdT generation, DdT-order completeness, shipment-order completeness.

Advanced processes

For multi-site logistics networks, Click Reply™ WM offers a range of features for optimising inter-site goods transfer processes.

Distributed Order

Dispatching single orders from several warehouses.

In Transit goods

Visibility of goods in transit.

Inter-site transfer

Automatic admission ASN to destination warehouse as per outgoing Delivery Notes generated by the warehouse of provenance.

Dispatching and Postponing

Sending orders from a warehouse which does not normally serve the customer to the customer's normal warehouse from which the final dispatch takes place.

Container Management

Solution for the management of mobile assets for re-usable containers, for tracing, re-admissions, reuse and reduction of losses of containers used in the warehouse and for shipment.