InStock WMS system implemented at Transit-Oil warehouse

2022: InStock WMS Implementation

The company InStock Technologies on June 24, 2022 announced the automation of the warehouse logistics company "."Transit Oil

The company's warehouse is equipped with a mezzanine and front racks. The warehouse stores heterogeneous products that require different processing. To increase the turnover of the warehouse and increase the level of customer service, the company decided to implement InStock WMS for full effective warehouse management and control of goods.

Before the implementation of WMS, InStock Technologies specialists conducted a logistics audit of the warehouse, identified problem areas, proposed a topology and solutions for optimizing the warehouse, and prepared a detailed terms of reference.

It was necessary to automate the business processes of the warehouse complex, establish accounting and traceability of all groups of goods, taking into account the peculiarities of goods, automate work with sets, optimize placement and speed up the processes of collecting and shipping orders.

To optimize responsible storage, it was necessary to organize accounting transparency for the controllers.

At the acceptance stage, the system takes into account the features and characteristics of the goods, determines the warehouse areas where the goods received at the warehouse will be placed. If a defect is detected during acceptance, then such an article in the system is assigned a certain status and then tasks are given for movement to the corresponding zone.

Proper acceptance management speeds up all further work with goods in the warehouse.

The project uses several methods of acceptance:

• acceptance in the assortment,
• acceptance of monopallets,
• acceptance with sorting,
• acceptance by location

The item can come from another warehouse that has already been collected for shipment to the customer. The system will automatically link the received item to this consumption order.

To avoid unnecessary labor, part of the goods can already be separated at acceptance and, in fact, selected for a certain order. WMS, having encountered a line in the delivery, searches for the order from the orders listed in the header in the orders not placed in the selection.

The customer pallet thus formed will be already selected in the WMS and can be moved or shipped.

Once each individual pallet has been accepted, the System automatically creates jobs to place it in specific areas according to storage rules.

WMS selects the highest priority Placement task and issues it to the employee: recommends to pick up a certain pallet with an item from a certain receiving location. When selecting a cell, the system takes into account restrictions on the size of the cell and weight per beam or shelf.

InStock WMS automatically groups orders to form waves together.

Grouping takes place on the basis of the shipping direction. Several consignees can enter the same direction. The system issues tasks to the selector with limitations on the volume of containers. This selection organization significantly saves time and speeds up further shipping processes.

Special selection is required. accumulators They are located in a separate area in the warehouse. Near this area is a voltage check station. For each selected battery, the sampler must measure the voltage outside the system and make sure that it exceeds the minimum permissible level, only after that the product is taken into the order. All this captures InStock WMS

To maintain the selection speed, it is necessary to replenish the storage area with goods in time.

The system organizes replenishment in two ways - hot replenishment and pre-emptive replenishment.

Hot replenishments are generated automatically when the operator places orders for selection and there is a shortage of goods for selection in the selection area.

Proactive replenishment is generated by the operator (or automatically) on the basis of the system recommendations according to certain rules.

Control of goods after selection allows you to reduce errors and improve the accuracy of shipments by up to 100%. When the inspectors scan the goods from the selected boxes, the system automatically detects the defects of the goods or the surplus, the correctness of the goods selected for a specific order. InStock WMS creates corresponding jobs in case of surplus, shortage or other discrepancies.

When you select an InStock flight, the WMS specifies which pallet or box the employee should take for loading. The system controls that the pallet is the same flight, otherwise the system will prohibit taking it.

With the introduction of InStock WMS at Transit Oil's warehouse

• The accuracy of accounting and the speed of commodity processing have increased.
• Work on goods of compound articles has been established
• Automated accounting and traceability of goods subject to Mandatory marking and accounting in the Cerberus system.
• Work on warehouse topology was carried out and the processes of acceptance, placement, selection were optimized.
• Reduced human error at all stages of warehouse operation.
• Automated storage area replenishment and inventory processes.
• Increased to 100% accuracy of shipments.