Plenty of ERP sellers attempt to advertise automation in their product. As you shop, remember that you need a framework that gives the entire story; pick, pack, and ship, as well as tracking and managing goods past the fulfillment centre.
Ask the ERP seller what the top qualities and shortcomings are in the product. How much manual versus automated work does it take to get an order out in the manner that your client wants, and how far could the product scale with your future growth?
Manual versus automation in ERP systems
Pick, pack, and ship fulfillment in an ERP or traditional systems regularly rely on a person to direct pick waves and then circlulate them. This requires lots of manual work to find data out of various frameworks and modules, move it into a bookkeeping sheet, then, at that point, they share that information (normally by paper).
ERP stock administration frameworks and bolt-ons base their automation limits on order picking, which creates some problems:
- Picking methodology is all on paper
- Lack of scanning requires manual information input
- Only one order handled at a time
- No advanced logic for decision making
- No assistance for third parties, integrations
Manual versus automation in WMS systems
A best in class WMS system uses scanners and automation to fulfill orders at each stage.
With this, distribution center staff can see exact inventory levels in various locations and stations, without going through hours on the phone, arguing backwards and forwards, or walking the floor to check stock out.
The warehouse automation of a WMS ensures that orders can be fulfilled in a miniscule proportion of the time with essentially zero mix-ups — in as little as a day after the order is placed.
WMS tasks that can be automated
- receieving, tasks, returns, LPN bunch picking with cartonization, and custom handling
- Various orders picked at once
- close to 100% order accuracy
- Multi-region task support:
- Pick and batch control
- Smart order directing, splitting, and adjustment
- Easily handle ecommerce orders in bulk
- Skip a pick and return later; no additional charge for waving and batching
- Barcode scanning reduces need for human work
- Directed order picking
- Combining same ship-to address orders for picking
- Pack to arrange with pick waves
- Mass pick and batch of similar products/orders
- Different packing stations in light of request type and client
- Direct APIs with delivery vehicles
- SSCC labelling and full EDI management
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