In terms of WMS (Warehouse Management Systems) there are 4 processes, what are they?

The most appropriate process of WMS are :

   1) Receiving   2) Order picking   3) Verification   4) Shipping

Hello Team,

Basically, WMS has 2 processes.

Inbound 

             Receiving, Inspect and Putaway

Outbound

            Pick, Pack and Ship

WMS Consulting – Requirements

The first step of our WMS Consulting involves capturing your processes, Key Performance Indicators, configurations, existing WMS functionality, interfaces, and planning-related restrictions and specifications within the scope of a warehouse inspection. The existing processes are considered along the material flow, beginning with incoming orders through goods receipt up to goods issue, and aligned to future developments. By asking targeted questions, Team warehouse logistics ensures an efficient recording of all WMS-relevant aspects. The requirements for future WMS are concretised in technical discussions with employees from different specific fields, to bring them together in formal requirement specifications later on. Identified weaknesses and potentials are prepared and documented in a catalogue of weaknesses.

WMS Consulting – Specifications

During phase of specifications we support you, within the scope of workshops, to compile and adopt requirement specifications. These specifications basically describe »what« the WMS has to offer – without saying »how« this has to be realized. Requirement specifications should be written as general as possible and as restrictive as necessary. They are based on the structure of VDI guideline 3601 »Warehouse-Management-Systems«, which was amongst others created by Team warehouse logistics. Next to creating specifications, we prepare a requirements profile for the present case of the customer, using the WMS Online Selection of our WMS Database. This allows a functional ranking of possible WMS according to their expected performance in a specific application as well as the preselection of suitable WMS-vendors (shortlist).

WMS Consulting – Tendering

Within the framework of tendering, tendering documents (requirement specifications and relevant attachments) are send to the preselected WMS-vendors. During announcement Team warehouse logistics assumes tendering management of dates, deadlines and responses. When the offers are returned the bidders are requested to provide any missing information and to change the content so that the offers can be compared more easily. For decision making it is usually not enough to compare functional and monetary facts and figures of the bids. That is why we are organising and moderating vendor presentation workshops, where the vendor gets the chance to present his offer personally. Afterwards it is possible to perform an additional workshop for a joint, systematically decision making and assessment. At the end of the tendering phase a contract award recommendation is submitted.

WMS Consulting – Realization

During implementation of the new WMS, Team warehouse logistics supports you to test and evaluate the functional specifications and the documentation provided by the vendor. We will also help you with technical clarifications for any changes and adaptations in scope of delivery. If desired, Team warehouse logistics will support you with the roll out and successful initial operation of the new WMS and the formal acceptance of the system by all of the technical teams.

Regards,

Saiyid

Agree with expert answer given by Mr.Sathish Prabhu.V . Thanks

Option D, Receiving, Order picking, Verification, Delivery should be the four processes of Ware house Management system.

agree with expert answers above

The Correct answer for the above WMS Process  is D

I would like to go with Number D- 1> Receiving 2>Order picking 3>Verification 4>Shipping. 

Answer -----------------------------Option D)

Option d is the answer

D-1) Receiving   2) Order picking   3) Verification   4) Shipping

A Warehouse Management System (WMS) is a software application, designed to support Warehouse or Distribution Center

1. Management in their daily planning, organizing, staffing, directing, and controlling the utilization of available resources, to move and store materials into, within, and out of a warehouse
2. Staff in the performance of material movement and storage in and around a warehouse.

Warehouses Management Systems are primarily tactical tools, purchased and used by businesses to satisfy the unique customer demand requirements of their supply chain(s) and distribution channel(s), when the inventory and workload are larger than can be handled manually, with spreadsheets. Motivation to purchase generally comes from need to support sales growth or improve performance, and occasionally both.

A WMS uses a data base configured to support warehouse operations, containing detail describing a variety of standard warehouse elements including the

1. Individual Stock Keeping Units (SKUs) that are handled and stored, e.g., weight, dimensions, case pack, Automatic ID labels (bar codes, etc.), and inventory by location with manufacture date, lot code, etc. SKUs may include basic materials, fabricated parts, assemblies, and industrial and consumer finished goods, etc.;
2. Warehouse storage locations, e.g., individual location number, picking sequence, type of use (picking, reserve storage, etc.), type of storage (each, case, pallet), location size or capacity, storage restriction (flammable, hazardous, high value materials, outdoor, etc.), etc.;
3. Dock doors, e.g., individual number, etc.; and
4. Expected labor productivity rates by function or activity, e.g., cases picked per man-hour, etc.

Daily management functions include

1. Planning - finalizing the daily plan for receiving dock activity, selecting the workload/orders to be processed in the day or shift, (this may also be done by the business system), and calculating an estimate of the labor and vehicles required to pick and ship the orders to ensure the staffing is appropriate, and carriers are notified in time to meet the daily requirements.
2. Organizing - sequencing the orders to be picked. Organizing orders for picking can be accomplished in many ways, meeting the needs of the user. The primary objective is to be intentional, and not pick the orders in the sequence in which they were received unless the company wants to pay a carrier make sense for transportation and delivery. The initial way of organizing was called Wave Planning or Wave Picking, with two objectives, a. to minimize need for dock staging space, by having orders arrive at the shipping dock in trailer load sequence, and b. to create an order of flow that will support monitoring the progress through the day and eliminate/reduce last minute requests for overtime or delay of carrier departure, etc.
3. Staffing - assign staff to work functions and areas, by Wave, to minimize staging.
4. Directing - ensuring the documented processes and procedures are embedded in the WMS and are consistently applied, used and appropriate for the nature of the work and service level intentions of the company (e.g., International Standards Organization 9000 (www.iso.org)). This function may also be used to divide individual orders into logical work units and the ability to assign them to separate individuals for performance, consistent throughput requirements and physical layout, e.g., separating individual case picking from each unit picking, and individual pallet load picking, to improve productivity and supporting Control.
5. Controlling - providing milestones for management to monitor progress through the day, providing the opportunity to respond to problems in a timely way, and report data for performance analysis.

Warehouse Management Systems have the capability to partner with staff in performing the detail processes required to handle all of the major and many minor warehouse tasks of receiving, inspection and acceptance, put-away, internal replenishment to picking positions, picking, packing, order assembly on the shipping dock, documentation, and shipping (loading onto carrier vehicles); processes including directing and validating each step, capturing and recording all inventory movement and status changes to the data file.

An implemented WMS will be supported with a variety of communications technologies (radio frequency), Automatic ID technologies (Bar code, RFID, etc.), mobile computers, and occasionally with automated material handling (conveyors and sortation) and storage equipment (carousels, automatic storage and retrieval, etc.), that may be processed within the WMS and sent to the business host computer in support of financial transactions, Advance Ship Notice to customers, purchasing and inventory management, etc.

D-1) Receiving   2) Order picking   3) Verification   4) Shipping_____________Right answer