The IBM® Sterling
Warehouse Management System (WMS)
is a Web-based application that provides a comprehensive end-to-end
solution helping businesses manage inventory and processes throughout
their network, through a synchronized warehouse management system.
The Sterling Warehouse Management System is
built using a robust architectural framework that provides enough
flexibility to adapt to changing business needs. The following figure
illustrates the various modules of the Sterling Warehouse Management System.
Figure 1. Sterling Warehouse Management System Advanced
Functionality
The functionality performed by each of these modules
are as follows:
- Inventory Control
- Granular tracking of Inventory at a location, case
or pallet based on item attributes including Lot#, Serial#
- Putaway of inventory
- Retrieval of inventory
- Replenishment of locations
- Count
- Management, visibility and monitoring of inventory
in a warehouse
- Inbound
- Comprehensive visibility to inbound shipments
- Pre-receiving
- Shipment, PO, Blind receiving
- Putaway of receipts
- Quality Control
- Quality profiling
- Quality Inspection
- Comprehensive visibility to quality process
- Task Management
- Task generation
- Task assignment
- Task interleaving
- Management, visibility, monitoring of tasks in
a warehouse
- Reverse Logistics
- Returns pre-receiving
- Returns receiving
- Serial number capture
- Disposition of inventory
- Putaway of return receipts
- Value-Added Services
- Kitting and Dekitting for static or dynamic BOM
- Customer compliance such as special ticketing,
security tagging
- Support for Build to Stock, Build to Customer or
Build to Order
- Retrieval of component inventory
- Putaway of kit inventory
- Management, visibility, monitoring of all VAS activities
- Cross Dock
- Opportunistic as well as planned cross dock
- Product diversion to Cross dock staging or directly
to outbound shipping lanes
- Cross dock based on Items and for units, cases
or pallets
- Outbound
- Order release consolidation
- Shipment routing
- Grouping of shipments and wave planning
- Constraint based real time optimization to suggest
the best picking strategy
- Containerization for optimizing packing and freight
cost
- Replenishment for demand
- Picking
- Packing
- Outbound VAS
- LTL/TL Shipments, BOL
- Manifesting for Parcel Shipments
- Trailer loading
- Management, visibility, monitoring of all outbound
activities
The Sterling Warehouse Management System is
designed as a comprehensive solution to take care of all the functionality
needs in a warehouse environment. It also provides the flexibility
to model and implement customized needs. Rich in features and functionality,
the modules of the Sterling Warehouse Management System provide
the following key capabilities:
- Networked Solution
- Multi-Enterprise Management
- Process Centric
- Comprehensive Catalog Management
- Visibility
- Vendor Performance
- Customer Compliance
- Radio Frequency Identification Enabled
- Optimized Operation