InStock WMS solution implemented in Four Lap warehouse

2023: InStock WMS Rollout

The solution InStock WMS has been implemented at the warehouse distributor of the pet products company "." Four Paws This was announced on May 11, 2023 by the company. InStock Technologies

The peculiarity of this project is that the warehouse has a high turnover and a large number of goods that are taken into account and processed by different methods. These are products such as:

• bulky goods
• medium-sized goods
• small-scale goods
• goods of the same article, but different color options,
• goods that come in disassembled condition
  • assembly during acceptance
  • assembly during shipment

• Items to be stored at a specific temperature.
• Goods of compound articles
• Typesetting sets

Before implementing InStock WMS, InStock WMS specialists conducted an expert audit of the warehouse and proposed process optimization solutions.

Automation affects all operations from acceptance to shipment.

• During acceptance, several methods are used:
• Acceptance by location
• Detailed acceptance
  • Detailed Acceptance with sorting
  • Detailed Acceptance in assortment
  • Detailed Monopallet Acceptance
  • Detailed Acceptance with placement

The most accurate and complete information entered into the system at the acceptance stage ensures a high speed of further processing of goods.

InStock WMS manages the placement of all merchandise groups by warehouse area. At the same time, many parameters are taken into account, including shelf life, temperature regime, number of calls to the product - ABC withdrawal, placement of goods of the same article, but in several color options. The system determines which area to place the goods from acceptance - for storage in the front racks, the box sampling area of ​ ​ the front racks, the mezzanine, controls the layout of goods on the shelves of the mezzanine.

Thanks to InStock WMS, there is always data on the exact location and quantity of products in the warehouse, the exact order of movement is organized and pallet accumulation in buffer zones is excluded and the processing speed is always maintained at a high level.

With InStock WMS, order selection is optimized as much as possible. The system plans the routes of the selectors, taking into account the location of goods, equipment in the aisles, the maximum weight of goods on the selector's cart. WMS can combine orders into waves. Several selection methods are used in the project. Its features have the selection of goods for thermal boxes, the selection of sets and prefabricated articles. The system can distribute the order weight to pallets. In order selection planning, the system breaks down the entire quantity of goods taken from the box area into the standard pallet quantity. As a result, the system forms tasks - one task per pallet: in each task the amount of goods of heavy, medium and light groups will be approximately the same.

InStock WMS manages regular inventory in the warehouse, so the system can generate reports on current product balances in real time.

When shipping, the system consolidates the orders along the route. InStock WMS eliminates human errors when processing shipping orders.

In addition to the InStock WMS system, this project has implemented a personnel motivation module. This module allows you to assign points to employees for different warehouse operations, taking into account the quality of execution. As a result, you can get information about how many points an employee earned over a certain period of time, performing certain operations.

A separate penalty mechanism allows you to manually enter penalties for errors and consequences of errors.

As a result of automation

• Accurate accounting of all groups of goods, taking into account the peculiarities of commodity processing and batch characteristics
• Increased processing speed
• Registration of recycling containers has been established
• Optimized placement of goods taking into account ABC withdrawal and storage requirements.
• Automated work with sets and compound articles.
• 100% accuracy of accounting is achieved and human errors are excluded.
• Increased efficiency of personnel.