Software for warehouse management
Managing goods in the warehouse becomes increasingly complex as your company grows. This is where warehouse management software can help. REMIRA provides you with an established, efficient and flexible system for controlling your warehouse and the associated processes. And best of all, our warehouse management system includes all the necessary functions as standard.
What is warehouse management software?
Warehouse management software, also known as a warehouse management system (WMS) or warehouse management system (WMS), is responsible for your goods in the warehouse and all docked processes between goods receipt and goods issue. It is connected to your ERP or acts independently as a leading system. The warehouse management software is connected to existing warehouse technology (picking technology, conveyor technology, etc.) and controls the entire flow of goods largely automatically.
The intelligent system has the ability to optimize individual process steps. The warehouse management software can identify potential for optimization in the distribution of goods, the picking process and the picking routes and basically ensures transparent, fast and efficient operation of the warehouse. With appropriate warehouse management software, all logistical material and information flows can be controlled - even across multiple locations. A warehouse management system records movements and material flows and thus creates maximum transparency. Employees receive precise instructions and information on how to carry out their tasks, resulting in fewer mix-ups and errors and a better overview and structure. Warehouse processes can be optimized and accelerated. Perfect warehouse management also ensures optimum utilization of personnel and warehouse capacity.
REMIRA provides you with powerful warehouse management software that makes your warehouse processes more transparent and efficient, thus optimizing them to the maximum.
What are the benefits of warehouse management software?
The warehouse is the linchpin of the logistics center. Intelligent warehouse software ensures that the entire material flow is automatically recorded, mapped and managed. This allows you to keep an eye on all important information and current stock levels at all times. Warehouse management software helps to ensure smooth logistics processes and a significant increase in efficiency, especially for large quantities of goods.
By being integrated into the merchandise management system, WMS collects data from incoming and outgoing goods as well as stock levels and passes this on to other departments. Sophisticated systems offer integrated mobile data capture (MDE software): Items, pallets, shelves and compartments are systematically labeled and recorded via mobile terminals, making manual re-keying and long paper lists a thing of the past.
- More transparency in the areas of stock, shipping and tracking
- Reduction of operating costs through better organization and division of the warehouse
- Process optimization of work planning for efficient employee deployment
- Process simplification through automation
- Paperless processing in the course of digitization with the corresponding advantages over classic paper document management
- Simple training of new employees thanks to intuitive data processing and perfectly coordinated hardware
- Inventory security
- Low error rate
- Maximum transparency
What functions does warehouse software need?
Are you looking for a warehouse management system or would you like to replace your existing WMS? The requirements can vary depending on the warehouse structure and industry. For this reason, we are happy to offer you a free consultation so that we can provide you with the optimum solution for your warehouse.
Basically, warehouse management software should answer the three essential questions when storing goods:
- Where to? (storage, retrieval, transfer)
- Where (find article storage locations)
- How much? (warehouse indicators such as minimum, reorder and maximum stock levels)
REMIRA Warehouse Management Systems already offer all the functions required for your application as standard. You do not need any additional modules, but can work directly with our consulting team to optimize warehouse management for your logistics. Integration into the existing IT infrastructure is also no problem at all.
Elementary functions for a warehouse management system
- Completely paperless warehouse processing through support of various hardware (desktop, MDE devices, smartphones, etc.)
- Flexible adaptation to company size, warehouse and industry
- Mapping of different warehouse types (production warehouse, order picking warehouse, narrow aisle warehouse, shelf warehouse, distribution warehouse, etc.)
- Management of all article attributes (batch, year, best before date, serial numbers, etc.)
- Multi-order picking / batch picking
- Automatic route optimization
- Mapping of the requirements of manufacturing companies (just-in-time, raw materials, intermediate products and end products)
- Inventory (also with inventory sampling procedures)
- Customs warehouse integration
- Optimization of incoming and outgoing goods
- Control of existing warehouse technology (forklift, AutoStore, etc.)
- Compatible with all established picking technologies (pick-by-voice, pick-by-light, pick-by-vision, etc.)
- Product finishing and labeling
- Personnel and resource planning
- Returns management
- Release capability
Special requirements for warehouse management for logistics service providers (3PL)
Logistics service providers (3PL) are responsible for their customers' warehousing. In doing so, they face ever greater challenges that can hardly be mastered without software solutions. These include, for example, fast and error-free processing, perfect IT integration, value-added services, a good price-performance ratio and a high level of transparency.
This means that you have to quickly master more and more complex tasks. Warehouse management is the core system here and therefore has a major impact on your customers' satisfaction. REMIRA Software already supports all these functions required by 3PL providers as standard. These are for example
- Multi-client management
- Accounting and billing
- Integration with the customer's online store
- Online dashboard for customers of the 3PL provider
What are the prerequisites for introducing a warehouse management system?
To begin with, it is necessary to take stock of processes, goods, storage locations and personnel in order to define a suitable solution. Our team, experienced in many sectors, will support you in this and design a future-proof warehouse management system. Whether a fixed location system or chaotic warehousing: we will find the right warehouse management system for you, tailored to your company. In principle, our warehouse software can be easily connected to your existing hardware and software. If you use an ERP system, the warehouse management system can be easily docked on. Information about stock, storage location etc. is simply exchanged via interfaces. To do this, we use our existing connectivity tools, which allow us to easily connect to your ERP or ERP software via an interface. If you use an SAP ERP in your company, this can be implemented without the use of additional SAP partners.
Are you looking for a solution for successful warehouse management?
As an inventory management system, our warehouse management software takes over the operational control of intralogistics from goods receipt to shipping, returns handling and stocktaking.