Warehouse Management System
The UrbanCode Warehouse Management System (WMS) – is an application that provides warehouses and distribution centers with the tools they need for efficient management. Facilitating the management in daily planning, organising and controlling of materials to ensure they are moved into warehouses while assisting with storage around these facilities.
Improved stock control within the warehouse from when it is received into your store, all the way up to finally dispatching them for you.
The WMS is not just capable of interfacing with multiple financial systems, but it also ensures that both the operational and monetary aspects are always in sync.
Benefits of a WMS
- Improved stock accuracy
- Allow for measuring warehouse performance more effectively
- Improved stock throughput
- Improved stock rotation
- Improved reporting and visibility
- Automated perpetual cycle counting
- Labour management
Powerful features
Easily draft, change, customise and author new reports with an easy-to-use Report Builder.
Advanced data driven customisation
With UrbanCode, you can customise the systems behaviour to suit your products and warehouse unique requirements and functionality.
Fully optimised for Web & Mobile
Your website is fully responsive so you can view your content from your choice of device.
Functionality
Master data
With UrbanCode, you or your team can modify any aspect of your database storage including any of the following data:
- Suppliers
- Customers
- Stock Owners
- Products
- User Roles
- Warehouses
- Zones
- Locations
Receiving
- Checking of stock
- Labelling of stock
- Batch creation
- GRV
- Final authorisation of inbound document
- Redelivery
- Linking multiple inbound deliveries to a shipment
Put away
- Allocation of product to a store location
- System directed put away
- Allocation of put away task to a user group
- 2 stage put away from receiving
Storage
- Bulk storage
- Pick face storage
- Mezzanine storage
- Overflow storage
- Quarantine storage
Stock takes
- Creation of stock take jobs
- Releasing of jobs to the floor to be counted
- Authorisation of counts
- Recounts
- Stock comparison between the ERP and WMS
- Automated perpetual counts, ensuring each product ABC category is counted the required amount of times quarterly / yearly
Replenishments
- Automated bulk location to bulk pick face location based on min / max levels
- Automated bulk location to fine picking area based on min / max levels
- User driven replenishment
Batch management
- Creation of batch
- Allocation of expiry date to batch
- Linking of batches to different products
- Allow for updating multiple status’s against batch driven products
Serial Number Tracking
- Create unique serial number
- Link serial number to a product or category of products
- Multilevel serial number nesting e.g. Pallet Serial, Box Serial, Unit Serial
Order planning
- Planning outbound documents based on priorities
- Splitting pick jobs between different areas within the warehouse
- Outbound order delivery date management
- Managing work load on floor based on the number of orders released to the floor for picking
- Linking multiple outbound orders to a shipment to ensure picking efficiencies (bulk pick)
- Allocation of stock to pick location
- Allocation of batches based on FEFO
Picking
- Full pick from bulk storage
- Partial pick from pick face
- Managing of the pick job (status tracking)
- Pausing of picking jobs
- Reissuing of short picks before completing picking process
- Exception stock counts
- Automated redirection to alternative location in the case of a short pick
- Confirmation of batch on the pick job
- Allocation of pick job to a correct user group
- Consolidating outbound shipment into a selected dispatch location
Checking
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Checking option based on requirements
- Check by product
- Check by SKU (e.g. Number of 1 litres, 5 litres, 20 litres)
- Check by quantity
- Check by customer (Allows you to bulk pick across customers and then repack and check by customer)
- Check stock into different boxes (Bulk pick your product and repack whilst checking into new packaging)
- Check or no check depending certain product categories
Dispatch
- Confirm into dispatch
- Confirm stock in dispatch
- Scan stock onto vehicle
- Confirm stock on vehicle