Deke Extruzhn (Logiton WMS)

The Logiton company has automated two finished product warehouses with an area of ​ ​ 1500 and 2500 square meters. m., on which floor-mounted multi-tier storage of large-sized pallets (with a carrying capacity of more than 3 tons) is carried out. These are the trading warehouses from which the bulk shipment of products to dealers is carried out.

The Döke Extruzhn corporate system is built on the 1C: Enterprise 8 platform, so the same platform was chosen for the automated warehouse management system. The Logiton WMS solution was implemented taking into account the following important features at the site and the tasks set:

• the need for unique identification of each product unit;
• high turnover of warehouses - full turnover takes place in three weeks, several thousand units of products are shipped from trading warehouses per shift, production works continuously, providing current shipments and stocks;
• large pallets can only be moved around the warehouse using a crane beam, which must be taken into account when planning warehouse operations;
• The order specification can vary even during the loading process, this imposes additional requirements for the prompt exchange of information with the corporate system and for monitoring the completeness of the order from the warehouse system until the vehicle is sealed.

The automation project was completed on May 15, 2007, the total launch time of the system was 4 months. The following features of the Logiton WMS can be noted:

• two warehouses work in the same information base, which allows you to synchronize their work and quickly manage balances;
• residues in the system are stored in a section of cells, pallets, boxes and pieces;
• all operations in warehouses are carried out using radio data collection terminals (acceptance, transfer, shipment, inventory).

Particular attention was paid to product labeling in the automation process. The label layout was developed in conjunction with the company's marketing department and contains all the necessary product information and a unique barcode. In addition, a special mnemonic symbol is applied to the label, which allows you to visually identify the type of product by photo, which is taken before sealing the vehicle.

Labels are generated in the system and pasted onto quality-controlled products. The use of labels with unique barcodes gave the planned effect of the implementation:

• Goods are accepted from production and shipped by scanning all boxes, which is necessary to accumulate history for each barcode.
• distortion of balances due to double arrival or write-off is completely excluded because rescan of the unique barcode is ignored by the system;
• There is no need to monitor the turnover of defective or damaged labels because only correctly accepted barcodes can be shipped from the warehouse.
• the label becomes key after the shipment of products, since complaints about the quality of products are accepted only if there is a label;
• it became possible to control the turnover of products after its shipment to dealers, namely, the compliance of dealers with the boundaries of sales markets allocated to them.