Savanna.NET WES Combines the Best of WMS & WCS
Description
A unique warehousing software solution, Savanna.NET combines a tightly integrated warehouse management system (WMS) and warehouse control system (WCS) into a single application to help manufacturers and distributors direct, control, and optimize internal material flow and order picking.
With the flexibility to operate as a standalone software solution or with any automated storage and retrieval system (AS/RS), the WES simplifies and controls the entire warehousing process, reducing the complexity of using several different "function-specific" applications. As a result, users can more efficiently use warehouse space and equipment, increase order accuracy, improve customer service, reduce the risk of lost or damaged product, and raise throughput and productivity.
Savanna.NET offers users the functionality necessary to efficiently receive, store, and track product, as well as marry inventory to customer orders using the solution's integrated order fulfillment processing capabilities. When an order is to be fulfilled, the WES processes that order into units of work—directing either automated material handling equipment or manual labor to execute the work. Inventory tracking also occurs seamlessly by using the software's WMS components.
Specs
- Offers a flexible design with inventory management, order management & fulfillment, and direction of automated equipment
- Support for both conventional and automated warehouses
- A core architecture that ensures compatibility with the latest application development and database technologies, supporting a variety of interfaces to host applications and warehousing equipment
- Easy-to-use, tab-style interface
- Sophisticated storage and retrieval algorithms for maximum space utilization
- Increased order accuracy
- Inventory traceability reduces stolen, damaged, and misrouted product
- Increased system throughput and labor productivity
- Reduces cost per unit shipped
WMS Functions:
- Standard receiving processes
- Receipt of stock and returned inventory
- Seamless link to order generation systems
- Real-time inventory tracking and tracing
- Complete management of all items/SKUs and lots within the system
- Communication with the Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs) for automation
- Integration with printers and other automated equipment, sending information for barcode and shipping label information.
WCS Functions:
- Interfacing to host-based systems/Warehouse Management System (WMS), exchanging information required to manage daily operations
- Allocation of work to material handling systems
- Real-time order fulfillment directives to operators and machinery
- Dynamic assignment of order information received from host system
- Real-time reporting and directives to both operators and material handling equipment