Unlike traditional inventory management, such as the inventory management function module included in ERP, or warehouse management software based on traditional circulation enterprises or third-party logistics business architectures, modern manufacturers have new characteristic requirements for warehouse management and in-plant material management systems, including:
- Meet the needs of unit load bases material identification, handling, line feeding and line side management
- Meet the increasingly demand for real-time inventory information
- Transparency of the logistics process, visualization requirements, and traceable material operations throughout the process
- Support for lean production material supply mode and line side presentation management, such as KANBAN/JIS/JIT material supply implementations
- Enabled capability for integrating automated, intelligent, autonomous warehousing and transport technologies, and able to provide matching process support
- Enable to provides fine-grained production material control capabilities
- Enterprise logistics capacity management capabilities
- Vertical and horizontal integration capability with interactive enterprise systems, such as with ERP/MES:
Consult the business requirements scenario below：
Unit load based material flow
- Modern in-house logistics based on material Load Unitization
- Load unitization is becoming the bases of modern material handling, from warehouse storage to the production line presentation, and extends from in-plant logistics to supply logistics
- Load Unitized material identification
- Management of different unit load types, such as single item unit load, mixed items unit load, complete set (Kitting) unit load
- Support of Load Unitization based material pull/supply modes in modern production company, such as KANBAN, JUST In Sequence, SPS (Set Parts Supply) , etc.
More modern logistics technologies are adopted
- Automatic warehousing system
- Pallet/Bin AS/RS
- Multi-shuttle
- PTS
- Automatic vertical/horizontal storage systems (e.g. Kardex)
- Different forms of storage
- Drive-in shelf
- Push-back shelf
- Gravity shelf
- VNA warehousing
- CLS racking
- Floor block storage
- Picking technology
- RF picking
- Pick to light
- Pick by voice
- Picking Cart
- GTP solutions
- High speed picking station
- Picking Cobot system
- Automatic/Unmanned transport technology
- AGV
- RGV
- Loop Carrier
- Floor conveyor
- Auto-navigation forklift system
- etc.
More production material supply models implemented
- KANBAN/e-KANBAN
- Just In Time (JIT)
- Just In Sequence (JIS)
- Call By Order (CBO)
- Set Parts Supply (SPS)
- ANDON material pull
- etc.
Fine-grained Material Control
- Parts may have different versions/changes
- May come from different suppliers
- Different ownership
- Different batches, date code and other source identifiers
- Different project properties, such as WBS
- Different quality status and usage restrictions
- Different unit load type and operation level
- Stock level control
- Need to manage more personalized material attributes, such as color options, environmental compliance attributes, RoHS, etc.
Materials with different attributes may have the same material number in the BOM, and need to be finely controlled through the material management system.
Real-time Inventory Information
- The material cycle in modern production logistics is getting shorter and shorter
- Shorter inventory cycle time
- Higher production line feeding frequency, shorter time interval
- The contradiction between non-real-time inventory information and the implementation of enterprise logistics modernization is becoming more and more prominent
- Production Plan
- Order fulfillment
- Implementation of raw material production line supply plan
- The paper based operation mode and outdated IT process design are the root causes of non-real-time inventory information. Refer to the outdated process design on the left
- The effective combination of a reasonable business plan and modern material identification technology is needed to meet the increasingly demand of real-time inventory information.
As a new generation of warehouse management and material control system, LeanWMS provides a high degree of adaptability to the material control needs of modern production enterprises, helps customer to upgrade the named logistics 4.0 in the factory, and builds the core capabilities of the enterprise represented by Industry 4.0 and intelligent manufacturing. Please refer to the Industry Best Practices of LeanWMS to get more information about how LeanWMS the characteristic demand of modern production company for warehouse management and material control system.
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