Warehouse Management Systems (WMS) Features and Functions
A warehouse management system (WMS) should provide database and user-level tools in order for a company to optimize its storage facilities while at the same time providing user level task direction and activity support. The WMS should enable warehouse operators to optimize pick, put-away, and replenishment functions by employing powerful system logic to select the best locations and sequences.
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Functionality
General warehouse management functionality.
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Adaptability
The adaptability module covers business processes, decision support, and reporting.
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WMS Technology Configuration
The technology configuration addresses WMS-specific functionality such as RFID, security, and internationalization supported by each vendor. It also touches on programming and other technologies used in the development of the WMS application.
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Product Technology
This group of criteria defines the technical architecture of the product as well as the technological environment in which the product can run successfully. Criteria include product and application architecture, software usability and administration, platform and database support, application standards support, communications and protocol support and integration capabilities. Relative to the other evaluation criteria, best practice selections place a lower relative importance on the product technology criterion. This apparently lower importance is deceptive because the product technology usually houses the majority of the selecting organization's mandatory criteria, which generally include server, client, protocol and database support, application scalability, and other architectural capabilities. The definition of mandatory criteria within this set often allows the client to quickly narrow the long list of potential vendors to a short list of applicable solutions that pass muster relative to the most basic mandatory selection criteria.
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Third Party Logistics
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Asset Management Features and Functions
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