To sound board Ekstruzhn (Logiton WMS)

The Logiton company automated two finished goods warehouses, of 1500 and 2500 sq.m. on which floor multilevel storage large-size a pallet is performed (loading capacity more than 3 tons). These are trade warehouses from which wholesale shipment of products to dealers is executed.

The corporate system to Ekstruzhn's Sound board is constructed on 1C: Enterprise platform 8 therefore the same platform was selected for the automated control system for a warehouse. The solution Logiton WMS was implemented taking into account the following important features on an object and assigned tasks:

• need of unique identification of each unit of production;
• the high turnover of warehouses — a whole revolution is made in three weeks, for change from trade warehouses several thousands of units of production are shipped, production works continuously, providing the current shipments and stocks;
• movement large-size a pallet on a warehouse is possible only using a frame crane that needs to be considered when planning warehouse transactions;
• the specification of the order can change even in the course of loading of products, it imposes additional requirements on operational information exchange with a corporate system and on control of completeness of order fulfillment from a warehouse system up to sealing of the vehicle.

The project of automation is complete on May 15, 2007, aggregate term of start of a system made 4 months. It is possible to note the following features of functioning of Logiton WMS:

• two warehouses work in one information base that allows to synchronize their work and to manage quickly a remaining balance;
• remaining balance is stored in a system by cells, a pallet, boxes and pieces;
• all transactions in warehouses are executed using radio data collection terminals (acceptance, movement, shipment, inventory).

Special attention in the course of automation was paid to marking of products. The model of the label was developed together with marketing department of the company and contains all necessary information on products and a unique barcode. In addition the special mnemonic character allowing to identify visually products type according to the picture which is taken before sealing of the vehicle is applied on the label.

Labels are generated in a system and pasted on products which underwent quality control. Use of labels with unique barcodes gave the planned effect of implementation:

• goods acceptance and shipment are executed of production by scanning of all boxes that is necessary for accumulation of history on each barcode;
• distortion of a remaining balance because of double arrival or write-off is completely excluded because rescanning of a unique barcode is ignored by a system;
• there is no need for control of turnover of the rejected or damaged labels because only correctly accepted barcodes can be shipped from a warehouse;
• the label purchases key value after shipment of products as claims on product quality are accepted only in the presence of the label;
• there was a possibility of control of turnover of products after its shipment to dealers, namely behind observance by dealers of the borders of sales markets selected with it.