It is the tool you need if you want to manage your warehouse in real time and efficiently. Its implementation will help you reduce work times, improve economic results and reduce human errors.
Warehousing logistics is always looking for solutions that help it provide a more efficient response. The Warehouse Management System or SGA meets this objective.
The WMS allows company warehouses, regardless of their size, to improve their work processes , thanks to greater control of movements.
Today we will tell you what SGA means, what are its functions and benefits of integrating it into the company's ERP, where the rest of the business data is stored.
What is a warehouse management system?
The Warehouse Management System (WMS) or Warehouse Management System (WMS) is software whose objective is to manage the movement of goods in a warehouse .
It allows you to know where each product is located and find it when necessary, saving time and being more efficient.
The WMS can work independently and thus obtain the KPIs of the supply chain, or integrated into the ERP of your business , so that all the useful data of the business can be crossed.
For it to work, the warehouse must be properly equipped and have logistics technologies such as:
- A WIFI antenna, thanks to which all the data can be captured and updated in real time.
- A label printer where product data is stored
- Chord readers to get the information from those tags
- Reading arcs in case of reading pallets
Warehouse Management System Features
Now that you know what a warehouse management system (WMS) is, let's see how this logistics service can help you:
- Reception of goods: so that at all times you know if the products are entering or leaving your warehouse.
- Stock tracking: so that you know if you need to place new orders to be able to serve your customers or to continue with the work chain of your business. And always in real time.
- Guarantee the efficiency of storage : since both the execution times of the operators and possible human errors are reduced.
- Order preparation and shipments: much faster, since the WMS is connected with logistics technologies that allow it.
- Provision of information to managers : which allows you to have a better management forecast of orders, both those that the company must receive and those that it sends.
- Dispatch of goods : for which you are going to create labels with specific barcodes, where all the information on where those packages are located will appear.
What are the advantages of integrating the WMS with the ERP?
As we have already said at the beginning, the WMS can work independently in a warehouse or, on the contrary, integrate it into an ERP.
In our opinion, if you want to improve the efficiency of your warehouse, the second option is the most appropriate, since this integration allows:
- Improved visibility and collaboration: both internal and external. At an internal level, because the operators know, at a glance at their tablet, where a product is located and they can also communicate it to other people in the team, at the same time that they are asked the question. At an external level, because you can connect or customize your WMS, to integrate it with that of the transport or distribution company and thus know where your products are or how long they will take to reach you.
- Greater precision: since the data that is recorded is reliable and is updated at all times. In this way, human errors that occur when the process is done manually are reduced.
- Improve decision-making: since you have, in real time, the data you need to improve the management of your business, thus avoiding future problems with customers and suppliers.
- Smarter sales and customer service: by integrating with the rest of the company's data, the level of data is such that you can anticipate the needs of customers or even know which products they like more or less and propose them similar when the news arrives.
- Greater agility: because all the data is in the same system, but ordered in an efficient and useful way for decision making.
- Faster billing: by reducing errors and management times, sales processes are much faster and, above all, more secure, which has an impact on billing.
- Productivity monitoring : thus allowing to see if there are points of improvement, by being able to observe which are the points where more time is invested.
- Greater agility: because all the data is in the same system, but ordered in an efficient and useful way for decision making.
- Faster billing: by reducing errors and management times, sales processes are much faster and, above all, more secure, which has an impact on billing.
- Productivity monitoring : thus allowing to see if there are points of improvement, by being able to observe which are the points where more time is invested.
conclusion
Including Warehouse Management System software in your company is the best solution to make this part of the business more efficient, since quick access to registration and data capture allows operators to improve their way of working.
If, in addition, you unite it with your ERP, business decision-making will improve, as well as the relationship between different company departments, by being able to have data in real time and, therefore, billing will also increase.
