Warehouse Management
You need all the major benefits of a WMS but … it also needs to totally integrate with all your other logistics systems.
The solution is MAXimas.
With the MAXimas Warehouse Management System you certainly benefit from markedly increased productivity, substantially reduced error rates and much faster turnaround. In short, MAXimas gives you enhanced customer service and lower costs.
But that, of course, is pretty much what you would expect from any WMS worthy of review. And so it is only when you come to examining integration, with other key systems, that the very real differences between warehouse solutions starts to all too obviously emerge. Many, for example, are totally stand alone applications. Which may be fine if the only service you provide is warehousing. But what if, as a typical 3PL, you are doing much more than that?
"...everything we design and build is fully integrated from the start."
Your full service offering may also span transport, container haulage, container parks/depots or even extensive inland port facilities. And for your own benefit, as well as to meet exacting customer demands, you have no doubt come to the conclusion that having a whole range of disparate IT systems – for each of your individual operations – is no longer satisfactory.
Hence the requirement for your new WMS to able to simply and automatically communicate with all your other logistics solutions as well as with your corporate business applications and those of your customers. Capabilities that are all intrinsic to MAXimas. And that’s because everything we design and build is fully integrated from the start. As well as presenting the facilities and options that enable you to run your business in the way you want. Rather than in the way that some rigid computer program dictates.
For arguments sake, however, let’s imagine that you are still debating the importance of the integration issue. Were that to be the case, then a standalone WMS would certainly force you to ask:
- How do we know precisely when a container is due to arrive?
- When a ‘box’ is received, is it still in bond, has it been cleared at point of entry or has it been cleared in transit?
- Where and how do we get our ASNs?
- Without advanced container arrival details, how do we effectively schedule the resources needed to undertake a fast unpack? And where do we physically place the container?
- Is the arriving product scheduled for cross-docking? So again, where is the most appropriate place to put the incoming container?
- Where do we need to store the incoming product? For example, does it require food quality storage?
- How do we give clients full visibility of their product while it is in the warehouse – from the moment it arrives to the moment it leaves?
- Where customers and end-customers are able to directly order on warehouse stock, via the web, how do we ensure that stock levels are updated immediately an order is placed? As opposed to only updating when picks are made.
- How do we alert our transport arm to upcoming deliveries that are due to made out of the warehouse?
- Once a container is unpacked, how do we advise its delivery to a container park so it can be pre gated-in to improve turnaround and thus truck usage?
- If our customer’s product is slated for export, how do we make bookings with the port to slot in our deliveries?
- Are we seeing each of our operations – including warehousing – having to invoice customers separately? Or is our central accounts department having to rely on highly manual and error prone processes to compile a composite single invoice – with the opportunities for substantial mistakes and revenue leakage that this entails? .
MAXimas....The total software solution for integrated logistics