3PL-operator "Online Brands" introduced Axelot WMS X5 according to the Axelot Cloud model

2022: Introduction of Axelot WMS X5

During the automation of the Online Brands warehouse in Axelot WMS X5, the ability to change the state of the product was configured, indicating the degree of its readiness to be sent to the end user. Axelot announced this on December 28, 2022.

LLC "Online Brands" is a 3PL operator that provides responsible storage services for several buyers of various types of products: shoes, fertilizers, jewelry and others. The sale of goods is carried out through large marketplaces.

In order to be able to keep records of warehouse operations and strictly charge all services provided to partners, the management of Online Brands decided to automate the warehouse. Choosing AXELOT WMS X5 as a software solution, the company determined the main goals of the project: the implementation of the possibility of accounting for goods in the context of billers and setting up billing services for various billers in different ways.

The company's management has chosen a "cloud" model for using the system - AXELOT Cloud. This model allows the company to fully use the capabilities of AXELOT WMS X5 without spending money on its own server infrastructure and its support and administration.

During the AXELOT project, WMS X5 was introduced for the Online Brands warehouse in Ramenskoye, its area is 2,800 sq.m. Here, goods not only go the standard path from acceptance to shipment, but also "transformation," since products of some types, for example, shoes, come from production in a common container, and before sending to the final buyer, each pair must be folded into a separate box, laced up and marked "Honest Sign." Therefore, during the project, it was necessary to set up additional stages of cargo processing in the system and add the function of changing the state of the goods from "Raw Materials" to "Good" on the WMS side.

An order is created in the CIS for the transfer of goods from the raw material warehouse to the finished product warehouse. The warehouse receives a task, sees what goods need to be taken from the raw material warehouse, moved to the raw material preparation zone, packed there and, if necessary, pasted DataMatrix, that is, bring the products into a marketable form.

From the point of view of typical CIS and WMS mechanisms, it would be necessary to use assembly/disassembly of kits, but for this the customer would need to create a reference book "Specifications" for all 5000 items and introduce a new document "Pick Order" into use instead of a transfer order. In order not to load the customer with additional work on the addition of NSI and further work with new documents, the AXELOT project team decided to create a new status of the shipment order, with the help of which it would be clear that the goods from the raw materials went through all the necessary stages of raw materials preparation before the actual shipment from the warehouse.

Only a few hours were spent on this task, but thanks to it, the process remained simple and familiar for the customer: AXELOT WMS X5, after the order for the transfer of raw materials to the finished product warehouse arrives from the CIS, forms the corresponding tasks for employees, the personnel performs all the necessary actions with the goods, after which the order acquires the final condition, and the goods - the proper type.

All this would be impossible without the configured integration between WMS systems with CIS, which the project team performed using the DATAREON MQ message queuing service using a typical exchange protocol.

Automation has greatly simplified all settlement processes with buyers for Online Brands and increased the transparency of warehouse operations. At the same time, since AXELOT WMS is deployed on, virtual server all technical tasks for ensuring the availability of the service and supporting the server infrastructure are undertaken by AXELOT specialists.