Solutions

Warehouse Management Systems

TransLogix warehouse software solutions are engineered to meet the specific needs of Distribution Centres, Warehouses, 3PL and Transport organisations to boost productivity, improve accuracy, reduce costs, reduce fulfilment times and increase customer satisfaction.

Whilst the priority in any warehouse is firstly to minimise the costs of handling and secondly to maximise the efficiency and accuracy of operations, warehousing organisations are recognising the opportunity to increase revenue through 3PL and 4PL value added services. TransLogix's suite of solutions offer significant outcomes to providers looking to expand into these areas by leveraging specific modules designed to enhance the management of the supply chain.

Learn more about TransLogix 3PL Warehouse software solutions.

TransLogix's powerful, scalable and flexible real-time 3PL Warehouse solutions are designed to operate in this often challenging and dynamic environment. The solutions are extremely flexible so they can be customised to meet the different requirements of individual customers each with varying degrees of complexity.

TransLogix 3PL Warehouse solution comprehensively addresses all the desired functionalities of 3rd Party Logistics service providers:

• Control your clients inventory with a feature rich, world class Warehouse Management Core supporting Random/Directed Put Away, Cross Docking, Multiple Picking methodologies, Label printing, Cycle Counting and much more.
• Provide repeatable and predictable services with 100% compliance that can be unique for each client by leveraging client configurable processes and inventory identifiers, incident tracking, alert management and more.
• Bill and track every cent, of every contract, for every billable activity, every time with the built in Revenue Rating engine ensuring complete elimination of revenue leakage.
• Reduce your labour costs and know the contribution of each client and employee.
• Provide the highest level of customer service at the lowest possible cost by providing access and visibility to your clients and automatically sending pertinent and periodic reports to your clients.

Stock Movements

• Information on goods entering or leaving the warehouse is recorded entirely to your specification - tracking by lot, batch, pallet, and carton or by hazardous goods type
• Stock can be recorded coming in one format and leaving in another (pallets in cartons out)
• Able to distinguish between different customers for the same goods, keeps relevant information and charges for consolidation, storage and repacking if required
• Provides complete integration of data with other modules and offers location tracking where either the storeman manages the location or there is specific placement to order using the "put away" functions

Warehouse Management

Allows you to offer detailed tracking and product handling services. A customer's products may carry references and directions to track, audit or call off products against these references.

There may also be details of quantity breakdowns where products are stored as pallets, but handled as cartons. There can be directions to ensure products are stored in a particular part of the warehouse for product separation needs or special environment needs:

• Provide reports about activities by customer, by product, by location, in the warehouse, by depot by batch or lot and takes a customer centric view across many warehouses or a warehouse specific view.
• Stock cycling methods (LIFO and FIFO) are readily catered for and different customers can be serviced in different ways.
• Optimise the use of your warehouse with automatic or guided put away ensuring customers' agreed performance requirements are met.
• Wireless integration using RF and bar codes to optimise performance of warehouse labour gives better control of the stored product. It also makes cycle counting a simple process as the system measures the remaining product, increasing the accuracy of a stock count and reducing the need to do stock takes. This technology can improve overall performance and accuracy through the total warehouse operation.

Customer Charging

Automatically calculate storage charges, handling in, handling out and other services including picking, shrink-wrap and container unpacks collecting information relating to products and their movement for management analysis and customer reporting.

• Charging is fully automated using rate cards that hold the agreed rates for each customer but have a manual override for ad hoc charging if and when required.
• Invoices created are automatically linked into the sales and general ledger of the Accounts module
• Automated invoicing for storage and services, location tracking and order processing
• Integrated with the Transport module making it very easy to provide and track a total service, from inward movement through storage to order processing and despatch
• An extensive range of reporting and inquiry functions, on and offline are supplied making accurate information available, quickly and simply so you can deliver the best possible service to your warehousing customers

Customer Web Access

Customers can check the status of their stock in your warehouse online and have access to reporting functions for history and movement details making your warehouse seem like their own. Sophisticated security has been built into the system to ensure absolute confidentiality of all goods movements and charging. Customers can only access information that you define about their freight.

Advanced 3PL Features

What makes the WMS solution so powerful is the increased pick rates and better space utilisation with features such as:

• Random location control to maximise space utilisation
• Batch, lot and serial control
• Various expiry, quit-by, use-by dates and shelf life options
• FIFO stock rotation management
• Capacity and handling profiles for all locations and products
• Optimised picking, put-away, and replenishment to reduce labour costs
• Cross docking facilities
• Picking that can be driven by transport schedules
• Effective block stacking control
• Discrete or batch picking with sortation
• Warehouse zoning for optimum control and increased efficiency
• Labour performance, warehouse utilisation and customer service reporting
• Cyclical and zero count stock takes
• RF, barcoding and paperless techniques

Paperless Warehousing, Bar Coding and RF

Paperless techniques are more flexible than batch, paper systems and, when coupled with barcode scanning, offer vastly increased accuracy. Our versatile paperless warehousing solution has many advanced features, including:

• Date/time stamped transactions to provide labour efficiency reports
• Integration to bar code scanning, automatic sortation, pick to light and other equipment
• Each stock handling device has its own preferred walk path
• Warehouse activities can be defined as a series of job routings to automatically link one activity to another
• Stock tracing option to track discrete stock items
• Packing and consolidation transactions

Electronic Data Interchange

EDI allows the warehouse contractor to transfer data between your client's suppliers and customers electronically. Invoices, purchase orders, remittances and other business documents can be sent electronically in standard formats - eliminating manual processing and saving time and money.

Better Customer Service and Higher Sales Productivity

Many of our customers opt for our fully integrated warehousing, distribution and financial solutions with advanced features such as EDI, inventory visibility, vendor scheduling and Distribution Requirements Planning (DRP). These are proven techniques for increasing profitability through reduced inventory holdings and lead times, improved customer service and lower order processing costs.

• Inventory visibility over multiple warehouses
• Purchasing with vendor performance analysis and vendor scheduling
• Import costing with multi-currency control
• Sales analysis with multi-period histories and budgeting
• Demand forecasting for better inventory planning
• DRP for JIT inventory control, purchasing and import ordering, branch replenishments, etc
• Distribution Requirements Planning (DRP) action messages - a powerful tool for real-time inventory management
• Order processing and invoicing with back order control and full pricing/discounting flexibility
• EDI links to customers and suppliers
• Fully integrated accounting modules; debtors, creditors, general ledger, and 4GL Report/Enquiry Generator

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