The NAXTOR-WMS Warehouse and Distribution Management System - an Overview

Whether your warehouse is a thousand square feet or a million square feet, the fundamental challenges are the same: how do you reduce inventory, fill orders fast (and ship them faster), improve accuracy, prioritize the movement of your most profitable goods, maximize worker productivity, minimize wasted space and at all costs keep from having to tell your customers that you don’t have what they need? The answer to all of these challenges is the same: Naxtor’s Warehouse Manager. An extraordinarily powerful and flexible solution, Our Warehouse Manager offers a comprehensive menu of capabilities, and practically infinite flexibility in their application making it an ideal product for virtually every warehousing and logistical operation.

Overall System Diagram

Goods Received

Order Processing/Goods Out

Locations
A fundamental concept in The Warehouse Management System is the Location - the place items are stored. As the Naxtor WMS is a generic system, it must provide flexibility to cope with any type of warehouse and any type of stock. In order to provide such flexibility, the following conceptual areas within the warehouse are used:

• Zones
• Faces
• Bays
• Levels

Example Warehouse - top view

A zone is the largest area within a warehouse. In some warehouses, especially small warehouses, there may be only one zone whereas in other, possibly larger warehouses there may be several zones. You can use zones to separate different departments: you may like to have different zones for departments T01 and T02, for instance. You can also use zones to represent different physical locations within your warehouse: you may have a zone for downstairs and a zone for upstairs. When The Warehouse Management System is installed at your site, a survey will have already been carried out to determine the best system for your needs.

A face represents a picking face: the aisle you walk down when picking goods from a particular bay. Faces generally run parallel to each other. In order to arrive at a particular bay, you must therefore specify a zone, a face and a bay number.

A bay is a vertical multi-level collection of locations. One level within a bay represents the smallest area within a warehouse: a single unique location. A location can store any type of item and could be a pallet, a clothes rail, a bin or even simply floor space. Therefore, to identify a single unique location within your entire warehouse, you must specify the zone, the face, the bay and the level.

This system ensures that The Warehouse Management System is able to work with practically any warehouse configuration. Under some circumstances, however, Naxtor WMS System may have been tailored further to accommodate an unusual situation.

Technical Features Includes

• Wireless hand held devices support
• Cycle Counting
• Inventory Moves & Transfers
• Multiple Units of Measure
• Paperless Picking & Receiving
• Physical Inventory
• Supports Plug-Ins through WiA
• Staging
• Portable data collection terminal Bar Code Printing
• Terminal Messaging
• RF (WiFi) portable data collection terminal Application
• Cross Docking
• Cubing(Space Management)
• Directed Pick & Put away

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