WMS: leveraging the aggregate values of a warehouse
Within the universe of inventory, we can consider two types: the “General Inventory” and “Cyclical Inventory”. The General Inventory is a common practice among companies, with the main objective of preparing the financial statements. The Cyclical Inventory aims to validate and adjust positions and balance of products randomly, because companies often adopt as selection criteria ABC classification curve, a measure that allows to measure the importance of the item in stock in relation to the movement. From a statistical viewpoint, the moves more merchandise in stock (curve A), is the most likely to contain bugs / holes in the stock.
And as WMS (Warehouse Management System) solution that actively participates in inventory management, can assist in this task effectively and safely? The benefit of this tool starts with the choice of products to be inventoried according to the species inventory coverage, ie, whether it is managing the stock of a Depositor, Product Group, Product, Category, Target and General.
The next step is to validate whether there is any pending proceedings at the opening inventory and track scores through panels Management solution, which displays the status of counts Graphics Inventory Tracking, environment in which the system keeps updated the graphics of the process, showing the percentage of each visual form labels and counted or not counted addresses, first and / or second and / or third count, addresses and addresses disagreements have been finalized, thereby facilitating the visualization process as a macro whole.
When you release the inventory to start counting the addresses belonging to the inventory are automatically blocked and the completion of the inventory and addresses are released again. When there are products more of a depositor in the same address, the system locks the depositor only products that are in inventory, enabling the other depositor can accomplish your shipping process normally.
Reconciliation of stock in the system equals the systemic balance with the physical inventory balance, so that, whenever the inventory result in a different physical balance of expected systemic balance, the process will automatically generate movements of stock for correctness of location (s) product (s), the excess balance inputs and output of the missing balance.
Upon reconciliation of addresses, the system should evaluate whether there is a need to generate entry document to give balance to surplus quantity found physically, and / or the need for generation of Document Output low to give the missing amount, ie not found physically.
It is important that the General History, held each inventory is automatically recorded in the history of all state changes made, as well as general logs the process that formed the basis for immediate or future consultation processes held in inventory. A validation that there are different users in scores of addresses is also needed.
Finally, it is necessary to integrate with ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) for proper update systemic balance in order to report this the beginning of a process of inventory as well as its conclusion, in which both systems will result in the same systemic balance of products, blocking and releasing the movements safely and practice.
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