COMPUTERISED WAREHOUSE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS

Whilst in our warehouses, your stock will be carefully controlled using the Red Prairie Dispatcher DLx warehouse management system, and all information contained within the system will be available to you via our web-based tracking tool.

With real-time updates via radio frequency based handheld terminals, our staff know exactly where your stock is at all times, and you can choose whether your items are controlled by bar-codes or RFID tags.

We also have direct links to courier systems to ensure that control is maintained, all the way to your customer's doorstep, and automated reports can be tailor-made to send to your staff or business partners, to prompt the next appropriate action in the supply chain.

Inventory management

• Supplier collaboration – visibility to supplier production, packaging, QA processing and shipments, with exception management.
• Slotting – improves productivity by synchronising product placement to order demand.
• Replenishment – supports multiple strategies to tailor replenishment to product, location, environment and slotting needs.
• Inventory control – tracks inventory based on many industry-specific and user-defined SKU attributes.
• Special handling – enforces rules for handling, storage and tracking of SKUs that require environmental or HAZMAT segregation, procedures and certifications.
• QA / recall – provides ancestry and destination tracking by lot, SKU and item/serial number for inventory at rest or in motion across the supply network.
• Cycle counting – system-directed work provides 99+% accuracy, virtually eliminating the need for traditional cycle counting. However, multiple cycle counting procedures are supported, interleaved with daily activities.
• Enterprise visibility – real-time visibility to inventory across the enterprise and extended supply networks, through dashboards with detailed drill-down analysis capabilities and user-configurable reporting, enables improved decision-making, reduced inventory levels and better support for demand-driven fulfilment strategies.

Inbound processing

• Appointment scheduling – integrates web-based communications with a graphical dock calendar to manage appointments and shipment documentation.
• Cross-docking – functionality to prioritise inbound inventory with outbound orders, reducing handling, storage and costs while improving service.
• Receiving and put-away – optimised receipt and put-away via paper, RF or RFID.
• Retail store processing – inbound processing for retail distribution such as store prioritised processing, pick-by-product-group, pick-by-store and merge-in-transit capabilities.
• Inbound services – system-directed work assignments for statistical sampling, QC work-flow and other customer-specific inbound processes.
• Duty management – a complete solution for managing bonded warehouses.
• Reverse logistics / returns processing – system-directed work assignments control the disassembly, evaluation, rework, return, disposal or other handling of returned products.

Outbound processing

• Task management and Interleaving – 3D mapping of facilities enables the most efficient task assignments for all work, with integrated, RF-directed interleaving of tasks.
• Multiple pick methods – a virtually unlimited number of pick methods can be deployed simultaneously.
• Packing and shipping – system-directed packing, cartonisation, QC verification, staging, and pack and hold management enables accurate, timely, damage-free shipments.
• Parcel manifesting – in-line parcel labelling and manifesting capabilities for all major courier firms.
• Pallet and load building – 3D graphical screens show optimised pallet build plans and trailer loading diagrams to maximise space utilisation, comply with weight and balance and axle-loading regulations, and comply with customer shipment requirements.
• Shipment documentation – the system produces the outbound shipment labelling and documentation needed for compliance with customer and legal requirements, so your customer facing or internal documentation will look exactly as you want it to.
• Appointment scheduling and dock door management – provides a web portal and graphical dock calendar for shippers and carriers, to schedule outbound loading and balance dock workload, and to match equipment and labour constraints to shipment needs.