Introduction of wms warehouse management system

Wms warehouse management system is a real-time computer software system, which can better manage information, resources, behavior, inventory and distribution operations according to operational business rules and algorithms, and improve efficiency.

The warehousing mentioned here includes all kinds of warehouses and distribution centers in the field of production and supply, including ordinary warehouses, logistics warehouses and freight forwarders. RF-WMS warehouse management system includes software, hardware and management experience. The traditional concept of warehouse management system ignores the lack of management experience and the automatic identification of hardware.

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. The hardware in the warehouse management system is used to break the bottleneck of traditional data collection and upload, and the accuracy and transmission speed of data are improved by using automatic identification technology and wireless transmission.

System characteristics

From financial software, invoicing software CIMS, MRP, MRPII to ERP, it represents the requirements of China enterprises from extensive management to intensive management. Fierce competition and the demand for cost make the management object behave as the information and resources of upstream, enterprise itself and downstream integrated supply chain. And warehouses, especially those in manufacturing industry, as nodes in the chain, have different inventory views 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 function is mainly 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.

Refer to the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-Warehouse Management System