WAREHOUSE MANAGEMENT

TOTAL WAREHOUSE MANAGEMENT
The Oracle Warehouse Management System (OWMS) is a component of Oracle’s Supply Chain Management and Manufacturing solution. It spans the areas of warehouse resource management, warehouse configuration, task management, advanced pick methodologies, and value added services. Oracle WMS optimizes the material handling business processes for warehouses, manufacturing facilities, and distribution centers. Oracle WMS supports both paper-based and automated environments with material handling systems and radio frequency (RF) hand-held computers

ADVANCED INVENTORY, STORAGE AND FACILITY MANAGEMENT
Oracle WMS provides advanced materials visibility and expedited material movement for inventory control from Oracle Inventory, Receiving, Shipping, and Work in Process applications. The WMS also provides license plate tracking throughout the warehouse. Oracle WMS provides advanced lot and serial attribute tracking and visibility, material status control, and advanced space utilization capabilities.

MOBILE RF COMPUTING AND BAR CODING
Oracle WMS has been designed from the ground up to leverage the power of mobile hand-held computers, bar code scanning, process automation and real-time validation to increase the accuracy and efficiency of material handling business processes.

INBOUND, OUTBOUND, AND REVERSE LOGISTICS
Control inbound logistics tasks such as receiving with or without ASNs, receipt check-in, quality control inspection, bar code printing, directed put-away, storage optimization, and opportunistic cross docking.

Oracle WMS automates and helps manage warehouse outbound logistics tasks like assigning tasks to pickers, suggesting pick locations, packing and consolidation of materials, vehicle loading, shipment confirmation, and interfacing with compliance labeling systems.

And Oracle WMS enables you to perform reverse logistics tasks such as return material authorization receiving, supplier returns, and refurbishment and recycling.

VALUE ADDED SERVICES
With OWMS you can take advantage of mixed modes of manufacturing, kitting and dekitting, outsource processing, manufacturing quality inspection, and product compliance labeling

WMS RULES ENGINE
The Oracle WMS Rules engine is a modeling tool whose repository of business practices and restrictions enable it to suggest the best process for a particular warehouse function. You can set up rules and strategies to do the following

• Allocate material for picking
• Suggest put away locations in which to store an item
• Assign material valuation and holding accounts to received material
• Suggest the label format and information content that are used to print a given label
• Designate warehouse task types to pending work, so that the system can dispatch work to the appropriate users and equipment

BENEFITS

• Reduces implementation complexity by built in integration to the E-Business Suite
• Improves operational productivity and reduces costs through process automation, storage optimization, automated task dispatching, and cross docking
• Increases accuracy through barcode scanning, real-time validation, and tracking
• Reduces data entry errors by eliminating duplicated entry
• Adapts to your changing business needs by modeling business processes through user-defined rules, without additional coding
• Hardware / Software independent architecture