What is wms system?

Wms system is a warehouse management system and a real-time computer software system. It can better manage information, resources, behavior, inventory and distribution operations according to operational business rules and algorithms, so as to meet the demand to the maximum extent.

The software in the warehouse management system refers to the software that supports the operation of the whole system, including receiving processing, shelf management, picking operation, platform management, replenishment management, in-warehouse operation, cross-warehouse operation, periodic inventory, radio frequency operation, processing management, matrix billing and so on.

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From financial software, invoicing software CIMS, MRP, MRPII to ERP, it represents the requirements of China enterprises from extensive management to intensive management. The fierce competition and the demand for cost make the management object behave as: integrating the information and resources of upstream, enterprise itself and downstream integrated supply chain.

Warehouse, especially in manufacturing industry, as a node in the chain, has different views on inventory in different links. In logistics supply chain management, inventory is no longer regarded as a measure to maintain production and sales, but as a balance mechanism of supply chain, and its main function is to coordinate the whole supply chain.

However, modern enterprises are faced with many uncertain factors, whether from suppliers, production or customers. The only way for enterprises to deal with the relationship between inventory management and uncertainty is to strengthen information exchange and sharing among enterprises and increase the transparency, reliability and real-time of inventory decision information. And this is exactly what WMS wants to help enterprises solve.

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