Columbus Cloud WMS

For March 22, 2017 Cloud WMS is a software technology of management of a warehouse on the basis of a cloud.

On March 22, 2017 Columbus issued the solution for management of a warehouse. The product is offered according to the SaaS model. It is focused on use in small and average warehouses.

Columbus Cloud WMS is a full-function warehouse management system, it is suitable for automation of the main business processes:

• acceptance and placement of goods,
• the movement of goods in a warehouse,
• processing and complete set of the order taking into account priorities,
• document flow,
• control of work of employees.

Advertizing Columbus, (2016)

The cloud solution of Columbus WMS is created to help the small developing companies to answer calls of time and to simplify business, turning the IT system into the mechanism of support of growth and obtaining competitive advantages. Our solution will allow to receive benefit, without worrying about purchase of servers, storages, creation of backup copies, updates and many other. Evgeny Lebedev, the head on business development of cloud solutions of Columbus company

The SaaS model provides:

• quick start of the WMS system;
• lack of the capital costs connected with primary acquisition of a system;
• the predicted payments and possibility of the termination of use without loss investments;
• accounting of seasonality – the number of users of a system is easy to expand or reduce;
• reduction of requirements to personnel and infrastructure.

The cloud warehouse management system is created on the Microsoft Dynamics 365 platform. Modular implementation allows the choice of the functionality relevant for business.

Creating the solution, we thought of how to help business heads from "a black box" under the name a warehouse to create the transparent, managed division, without forcing them to penetrate into subtleties of IT technologies. The answer was simple – clouds. Vladimir Puchenkov, director of practice of warehouse solutions of Columbus company

As a part of a product:

• Connectivity Studio - provides setup of integration Cloud WMS with external systems;
• RapidValue is the application for business process management, templates of standard processes, the assistant on their setup and accomplishment,
• AX Anywhere for work with the cloud WMS system via the browser on all devices, including tablets, smartphones and mobile terminals of data collection.