Warehouse digitization
Objective
Design, develop and implement a warehouse management system (WMS)
Activities and Tasks
- Redesign the warehouse management process: types of packaging and materials, types of shelves and areas, warehouse capacity, criteria for assigning materials to shelved-areas, processes and types of tasks (entry, location and relocation, picking, packing, expeditions, … ), FIFO criteria, picking strategies, route optimization criteria, material identification process (barcode, QR, RFID, …), people profiles, criteria for assigning tasks to people, entrances and exits process (RF, antennas, … ), reports-KPIs, …
- Definition of the specifications to develop the WMS
- RFQ development, offers management and supplier selection
- WMS development
- Carrying out pilot tests. Identify errors and make corrections and adjustments
- Implementation, integration and start-up of the WMS
Deliverables and Results
- Redesigned warehouse management process
- WMS specifications
- RFQ and supplier offers
- WMS implanted
- Improves productivity in the warehouse and reduces logistics costs