Logistics Management Solutions
Agility’s solutions for logistics management have been carefully designed over many years to enhance many ERP system’s existing functionality in this area. While the ERP may support most of the business perfectly well, this is an area that often has to be enhanced by modifications, or by using 3rd party products which then have to be interfaced to the ERP.
Agility’s solutions fully integrate into the ERP to make use of existing functionality and data where possible, while adding additional capabilities seamlessly.
Some of the areas covered by Agility’s software are:
- Order Release and pick waves
To improve and manage the flow of work into the warehouse, this module allows a supervisor to pull sales orders into the warehouse in waves, grouped and sequenced by variable criteria. Waves can be allocated and tracked for completeness to ensure loads are built and ready for the vehicles arrival.
- Marshalling and Vehicle Loading
Most ERP systems include batch based pick confirmation, and dispatch /load confirm. However, to ensure real time visibility and greater accuracy of despatches, Agility’s solution takes this much further. Orders or Loads are assigned to marshalling lanes which can be monitored. Vehicles are loaded with RF terminals to ensure only the correct pallets can be loaded, and none are left behind. At the same time, the ERP system is being updated in real time as each pallet is loaded so that invoices can be printed earlier.
- Warehouse Control
A single ‘dashboard’ of all open work within the warehouse. This not only affords the supervisor a single screen to see all open activity, it also allows for work to be assigned to specific users, priorities to be changed and job instructions to be attached to activities.
Coupled with the Activity Console, which displays the current activity of all warehouse personnel, and Agility’s instant messaging, this allows dynamic reassignment of labour to meet the requirements of the workload.
- Efficiency (KPI) data
An ERP system can report the numbers of SKUs moved round the warehouse and dispatched over a set period. Agility’s Efficiency module not only collects that, but also records time taken for each activity, weights and volumes, aborted transactions, and overrides at both at a line and summary level for each user. Non transactional or idle time is also tracked.
The data collected can be used for far more detailed reporting and analysis on warehouse efficiencies including layout, training, shift patterns etc.
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Supply Chain Modules from Agility