Does your warehouse have carousels, shuttles or paternosters? Are they working at their maximum capabilities or could you move more stock in less time? Our system can integrate with a mainframe system or work by itself to imporove your stock movements. Download a fully working copy to see for yourself or read about its capabilities below:
The main aim of the system is to make stock movements more efficient. This is especially true when using automated storage such as carousels, ASRS's and silos etc. The basic philosophy has always been to reduce the amount of keying required to the absolute minimum that is compatible with secure and accurate operation. Typical speeds exceed 2,000 stock movements per week on a single carousel. With special hardware and tailored software this can be increased to over 20,000 per carousel.
All access to the system requires the use of pass codes. Each user has a unique code which will limit their access only to authorised parts of the system.
The system is designed to be easy to use. This encourages operators to record all stock movements. With good stores discipline, this has resulted in stock accuracy of over 99%.
Every operation and stock transaction on the system can be recorded to give absolute traceability of items and which operators performed which actions.
With the unique bin-mapping feature, it is possible to operate totally random storage and always find the best sized location in which to store new stock.
The majority of the unique features of the system are due to requests from users. Any special requirements can be catered for.
The system is based on Xbase format files as used by dBase and many other popular database systems. The format of these files is available so that users can write their own applications or reports if required.
Stock can be rotated using FIFO or life Expiry Dates.
The system has been tested under many simulated fault conditions. Much care has been taken to ensure that problems such as processor faults and power loss do not lose or corrupt stored information. User error is reduced by allowing operators access only to facilities for which they have been trained.
The system employs a 'user friendly' menu system. The complexity can be selected dependent upon users experience and ability. Help messages are displayed to guide the user. Extra on-line help is available for lesser used features.
Data can be passed to and from main-frame systems to provide on-line links with company wide systems. This allows up to date information to be available at any terminal linked to the system. Links can be made to in-house MRP or SOP systems.
There are many choices of ways in which the system can be organised. These can be easily changed from special menus. The system also contains many special features which may not be required and can be switched off.
Full support is available from the people who actually design the system and write the software. This gives excellent response to queries or problems experienced by users. Support by modem is also available to allow full on-line assistance.
The system is under constant development and new features are released on a frequent basis to all eligible users. The software is fully year 2000 compliant.
Units such as Bar Code Readers, Ticket Printers and Counting Scales can be linked directly to the carousels to give much improved picking performance.
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