PROJECTS
Warehouse management system
- Retail
The use case
A hungarian pool technology retailer and pool chemical manufacturer needed a warehouse management system to complement its SAP ERP system.
The company’s central warehouse serves its 8 stores in Hungary and two in neighboring countries.
They wanted to reorganize their warehouse storaging and commissioning processes on a QR code based storage space system, which connects to SAP to receive order data, automatically generates the picking and commissioning tasks, and communicates them to the warehouse workers via industrial handheld devices.
Regarding handheld technology, the customer preferred DOS based solution due to the existing devices they were used to.
The solution
Our company had been developing a solution which contains
- a robust interface to SAP with over 20 message types (receive product, partner, warehouse attribute master data, etc.).
- a central administration system which manages all common warehousing processes (receiving, put-away, storage, picking, packing, shipping), as well as other functions like shipment consolidation, shipment control, and various inventroy control processes.
- management of shipment organizing processes.
- maintains a robust movement journal
- according to the processes, automatical task generation to the available warehouse workers, communicated to their handheld devices.
- app on the handheld devices to display the tasks and enable workers to provide feedback.
- QR code label printing to identify warehouse zones, storage spaces, pallets.
The result
The implementation took 18 months, and had been since implemented at a contract storage company as well.