The enables
you to manage inventory and processes in your warehouse. The Sterling Selling and Fulfillment Foundation:
Warehouse Management System Concepts Guide provides
an overview of various processes in a warehouse for diverse enterprises.
This manual explains how to use the consoles
that contains the following components:
- Execution Console Framework - enables you
to capture data on the screen by entering the data using the keyboard
and pressing the Tab key, or by scanning the barcode using a wedge
scanner. The various features of the execution console framework are
explained in the Appendix, "Understanding the Execution Console Framework".
- Inbound Shipment Console - enables you to
view information about inbound order shipments and shipment containers.
The screen level information is explained in the chapter, "Inbound
Shipment Console Screens".
- Receipt Console - enables you to view receipt
details. The screen level information is explained in the chapter,
"Receipt Console Screens".
- Create Inbound Shipment - enables you to
manually create inbound shipments from fax, e-mail messages, or telephone
conversations, as well as for trailers that arrive with no prior notice.
The screen level information is explained in the chapter, "Create
Inbound Shipment Screens".
- Receive Inventory - enables you to receive
an expected container, build cases or pallets, receive blind receipts,
and receive over-receipt quantity. This console is designed to support
scanning of information utilizing available barcodes. The screen level
information is explained in the chapter, "Receive Console Screens".
- Receipt Adjustments - enables you to adjust
errors in the receipt quantity caused during receiving. The screen
level information is explained in the chapter, "Receipt Adjustment
Screens".
- Inspect Inbound Receipts - enables you to
inspect inbound receipts. The procedure for inspecting an inbound
receipt is similar to inspecting a return receipt. See the chapter,
"Inspect Inbound Receipts Screens".
- Inspect Return Receipts - enables you to
record inspection details and provides visibility to item level inspection
details for a receipt. The screen level information is explained in
the chapter, "Inspect Return Receipts Screens".
- Location Inventory - enables you to manage
inventory in a warehouse and provides comprehensive visibility to
inventory at both enterprise and node levels. The screen level information
is explained in the chapter, "Location Inventory Console Screens".
- Create Count Request - enables you to create
count requests. A count process in a warehouse allows you to verify
the system's inventory against the actual inventory that is available
in a specific location. The screen level information is explained
in the chapter, "Create Count Request Screens".
- Count Console - provides comprehensive visibility
to the count request status and the count results that are recorded.
The screen level information is explained in the chapter, "Count Console
Screens".
- Create Move Request - enables you to create
ad hoc move requests. The screen level information is explained in
the chapter, "Create Move Request Screens".
- Move Request Console - enables you to manage
all processes for a move request, including the abilities to view
and modify move requests. The screen level information is explained
in the chapter, "Move Request Console Screens".
- Adjust Location Inventory - enables you to
adjust inventory in the system for a location to reflect the physical
inventory. The screen level information is explained in the chapter,
"Adjust Location Inventory Screens".
- Print SKU Labels - enables you to print the
SKU labels. The screen level information is explained in the chapter,
"Print Stock Keeping Unit Labels Screens".
- Create Work Order - enables you to create
work orders. The screen level information is explained in the chapter,
"Create Work Order Screens".
- Work Order Console - provides work order
visibility at both enterprise and node levels. The screen level information
is explained in the chapter, "Work Order Console Screens".
- VAS Station - enables you to scan an outbound
container number or a work order number to identify the work order.
This component also provides the ability to confirm the work order
at an activity level. The screen level information is explained in
the chapter, "Value-Added Services Station Screens".
- Outbound Shipment Console - enables you to
modify the outbound shipment instruction. This component also provides
visibility to discrepancies found in the outbound shipments. The screen
level information is explained in the chapter, "Outbound Shipment
Console Screens".
- Create Outbound Shipment - enables you to
manually create outbound shipments from fax, e-mail messages, or telephone
conversations, as well as for trailers that arrive with no prior notice.
The screen level information is explained in the chapter, "Create
Outbound Shipment Screens".
- Wave Console - enables you to match all shipments
with the appropriate shipment groups and create waves for those groups.
The screen level information is explained in the chapter, "Wave Console
Screens".
- Create Wave - enables you to manually create
waves. The screen level information is explained in the chapter, "Create
Wave Screens".
- Pack Station - enables you to pack containers
for system defined and user defined containerization processes. The
screen level information is explained in the chapter, "Pack Station
Screens".
- Manifest Console - enables you to view manifest
details. You can also open a new manifest, close a manifest, and print
a manifest. The screen level information is explained in the chapter,
"Manifest Console Screens".
- Add To Manifest - enables you to add containers
to a manifest. The screen level information is explained in the chapter,
"Add To Manifest Screens".
- Remove From Manifest - enables you to remove
containers from a trailer or manifest before closing the manifest.
The screen level information is explained in the chapter, "Remove
From Manifest Screens".
- Weigh Station - enables you to record a container's
weight that belongs to a TL, LTL, or parcel shipment. The screen level
information is explained in the chapter, "Weigh Station Screens".
- Location Inventory Audit Console - enables
you to view an item's or a container's inventory audit details.
The screen level information is explained in the chapter, "Location
Inventory Audit Console Screens".
- Task Console - enables you to optimize warehouse
throughput and maximize worker efficiency. You can:
- Confirm Batch - enables you to confirm a
batch or confirm a batch with exceptions, if applicable. The screen
level information is explained in the chapter, "Confirm Batch Screens".
- Record Count - enables you to record count
task results to indicate the completion of the count task that was
assigned. The screen level information is explained in the chapter,
"Record Count Screens".
- Log Productivity - enables you to record
additional productivity information. The screen level information
is explained in the chapter, "Log Productivity Screens".
- Productivity Console - provides visibility
to activities performed at a process level. Allows you to modify the
productivity details. The screen level information is explained in
the chapter, "Productivity Console Screens".
- Prints - provides documents that are printed
daily in a warehouse, as and when requested, or when initiated by
the occurrence of specific events. The documents that can be printed
are explained in Appendix A, "Sterling WMS Prints".