Warehouse Management

IBS Warehouse Management software helps you maximize the space to reduce costs and improve customer service.

The distribution business is full of dilemmas. One of the trickiest is space management. The tighter you pack your inventory, the less space you need and – in theory - the lower your costs.  More space, however, means items move less and are easier to find. This impacts your customer service. You can’t win.  Or can you?

IBS software records and directs picks and puts to ensure you deliver the right items at the right time. It safeguards vital customer service levels with tangible efficiency.  For example, multiple orders can be picked, packed and dispatched in one simple process to improve both efficiency and accuracy.

One technique used to turn fast moving products around quickly is cross-docking. It automatically checks sales orders against purchase orders and ships products out to customers before they need to be formally stored.

Because Warehouse Management is integrates with the Enterprise 6.0 suite, it can access sales figures, interpret customer demand and assign space to fast movers.

It knows which products have reached critically low inventory levels so your people can prioritize incoming goods.

Improved margins come from intelligent decisions

Warehouse Management helps you make the best decisions to maximize revenue, minimise costs and keep margins at their best possible level.

  • It helps you work out whether it is best to store new stock in empty spaces or with older stock of similar types.

  • It suggests storage ideas where appropriate to speed up picking.

  • It helps you understand whether items received from suppliers are fast-moving and should go into the primary picking area or have longer lead-times and should go into bulk storage.

RF and barcodes

Warehouse Management supports accuracy with paperless picking and scanning. RF ensures priority of orders and customer pick-ups with batching which distributes orders based on the equipment required to process them most efficiently.

RF tags can carry a variety of information including weight, size and which storage criteria apply. When items are scanned by your warehouse people, they can also check that the appropriate storage methods are being used.

Visualizing the information

Warehouse Management is integrated with IBS’ Planner View, software that allows you to look at information graphically and in a variety of other formats. It enables you to plan deliveries to and from the warehouse, simulate storage options and analyze the success of your existing decisions.