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In your opinion, what are the features that must exist in a warehouse management system for online retailers?

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Question added by Nisreen Ahmad , dfgdhj , twst
Date Posted: 2016/02/03
Rakesh Nagpal
by Rakesh Nagpal , Deputy General Manager- Marketing , Chambal Fertilisers and Chemicals Limited

For online retailers WMS should contain the following-

1. All items should have prper barcoding

2. Each item's should be properly placed in warehouse as per its marked location and must be systematically indexed

3. For properly placing and moving there shoild be forklifts in WH

4. Each product should accesible with in short time for arranging quick despatches to customers.

5. Barcoding would help proper inventory contorls and help with its invoicing.

6. Keep evaluating and modifying WMS as per requirement and experience so entire WMS should be flexible as no WMS is optimum.

rashed gharaibeh
by rashed gharaibeh , operations team leader , Agility - Jordan

In Ecommerce WMS should always be integrated with the warehouse layouts to maximize throughput. There is nothing called as best. In your case, if you have a warehouse, the best WMS system could be the one where it can automate all the manual processors and provides directions for items to be picked with the best algorithms assigned. If you have a3rd party warehouse then, software such as AWS  or S3 can be used, generally a software which can create a visibility between you and the3PL's WMS generally these are cloud based.

HAMOUDI MOURAD
by HAMOUDI MOURAD , Material Manager , ABB

In Warehouse Management, the ordered point are essential

A- Items Should be classified and identified according to the drawing by an Ident Code or Commodity Code, if the Cade Bar Is available is good

B- The Storage Area Must be separated According to the Nature of Material 

" Mechanical, Instrument, Piping, Electrical " and the same segragation in the Software of Warehousing 

C- The Material Stored inside Whs must be Apparent and identified by the IDENT code or the Items mentioned in the packing List

D- Card Stock must be instaled in each Shelf

" The Most importent Point that the Physical Quantity must be equal to the quantity of the software Management system in order to avoid any Confusion"

The warehouse management system offers the possibility of being as hands-off or hands-on as required and allows the user to decide the touch points and where and when they should occur throughout the web order processing cycle. This flexibility, coupled with complete integration front to back, is what makes our WMS faster, easier and more accurate.

From physical layout planning through bin assignment and management the ecommerce WMS provides the means to not only control how your warehouse will be laid out, but more importantly, where your merchandise is to be stored and picked from. The Warehouse Management System - Location Management component is used from assigned put-away through to picking, as well as, bin replenishment and secondary location assignment. For greater efficiency

Warehouse Management System - Location Management component allows you to optimize the use of the space within your warehouse saving you time and money.

Akiak  Abdulla TK
by Akiak Abdulla TK , LOGISTICS/PURCHASE ASSISTANT MANAGER , Falcon Home Entertainment Co Llc

To achieve an effective online retailing warehouse management system should have following feature

those features are; 

  • Warehouse should be occupied with all the standard equipment such as lifttruck ,rfidtags, scanning device etc.
  • Then priority should be given to technical and softaware development such as DBMS,systeallocators,ASRS SYSTEM.
  • Then transportation should provided with all the provission
  • then employees should priovide trainning to fastn their work .           

vetriselvan chinnaswamy
by vetriselvan chinnaswamy , Team Lead , Accenture

Manage Warehouse complex you will get complete workflow from sales, purchasing and delivery

 

Aijaz Ahmad Aijaz
by Aijaz Ahmad Aijaz , Supervisor/Assist Manager-Warehouse[Logistic&Supply chain] , Alwasail Industrial manufacturing company

1-Each SKU should have in proper location with cprrect BAR coding.

2-Delivery should be on time based on FIFO.

3-Staff should be expert & qualified to accelarate theire job.

 

mohammed muzammil
by mohammed muzammil , ERP (logistics and freight forwarding) quality controller , eBMS

Products name, quantity, buying amount of the product, selling amountof the product, purchase order, sales order, customer invoice, vendor invoice, receipt and bar code scanner  

should be in Fifo model Bar code for well maitain

luis mercurio
by luis mercurio , Storekeeper/MEP , ISZL Consortium

All items systematically marked for easy turnover.

MAHMOUD FOUAD
by MAHMOUD FOUAD , In charge , Tactic

short-term, long-term, and last-minute storage solutions, make sure that your products are well managed, from arrival to departure

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