WAERlinx – Advanced Warehouse Management For NetSuite

Receiving & Putaway

Barcoding – All barcode and RFID tag formats accepted, allowing for rapid input and accurate transaction processing.

Supermarket Style Check-In – Item by item scanning at goods in – ideal for validation of high value items into the warehouse.

Advanced Shipping Notices – providing visibility of inbound deliveries and enabling simplified receiving procedures.

Quality and Inspection features allow these two company functions to align, in turn providing quality performance measurement.

Cross-Docking – facilitating rapid and automated movement directly from receiving to shipping.

Bulk Putaway – Full pallets to deep storage without the need to break them down.

Task Driven Putaway – Rapid process for putaway with the system directing teams to the most efficient tasks.

Automated putaway – these streamline your processes to fit with your business needs and maintain an accurate sequence of material storage inside the warehouse. Local operator knowledge is no longer essential, minimising the training overhead.

Walk sequences optimise all travel routes around your warehouse ensuring that your team makes the most efficient use of time.

Operator control functions – features on operator handheld devices provide you with maximum flexibility and utilise operator knowledge where appropriate. Operators feel more in control and work with greater efficiency and throughput.

Supervisor management – All supervisors gain real-time visibility of warehouse work activity. The feature distinguishes work waiting to be started from work-in-progress, allowing team leaders to prioritise appropriately, based on business need.

Outbound Processing - Picking

Flexible picking rules – you can choose to pick by customer, supplier destination, date, vehicle ID, product family and so on – warehouse picking is aligned with the precise needs of the business. This is determined and managed by warehouse supervisors or can be system-driven.

Task driven picking – maximizes picking flexibility while retaining control of operations. Task prioritization directs operators to urgent items first.

Flexible picking policies - e.g:

• Multiple orders, one after the other
• Multiple orders, pick by ‘wave.’
• Pick waves can be shared between operators
• Light assembly in the warehouse (Kitting)
• Tracking of re-usable pick containers
• Flexible scan validation at a number of steps in the process

Optimized walk sequence – operators are directed round the warehouse using the shortest possible distance needed to pick the required products.

Supervisor controls – Demand Prioritization and Work Task Prioritization combine to give supervisors complete control of the work schedule

Outbound Processing – Shipping Management

Execution of dispatch - function to selectively dispatch individual orders, or multiple orders: by Order Due Date, Delivery Route or Customer.

Packing and shipping functions with optional printing of labels and documents; flexible options for all pick, pack & ship processes.

Interfaces to over 35 worldwide couriers – negates the manual effort of phone, email, and printing of labels and documents when arranging courier collections. Integration to 3rd party couriers via NetDespatch or MetaPak.

Integration is automated, based on settings associated with the customer:

• Courier tracking reference is interfaced in dispatch information to NetSuite
• Courier label printing
• Auditable transactions confirm shipping events - useful for customer service, investigating any customer-reported delivery discrepancies.

Returns – reverse logistics come as standard.

Storage Management

Locations – you have total, real-time visibility of all warehouses, zones, racks and shelves, right down to the point of use, anywhere in the world. Having the supply chain represented on the system in precise detail eliminates chaos and allows managers to manage.

Stock count & perpetual inventory – these standard features mean that you always know what you have on your shelves and are fully auditable.

Product management by FIFO, expiry date, serial number, batch number, lot number or manufacturer’s serial number can all be applied, to control the product flow and pick order. This removes spreadsheet dependency and allows the locations to be managed based on established business rules.

Bulk storage – allows a dynamic pick face to be replenished from a nearby bulk storage area. This optimizes picking throughput and lowers the cost to serve.

Multiple vendor part numbers - essential where there are multiple suppliers of the same item.

NetSuite Interfaces

WAERlinx has over 30 specific bi-directional interfaces into the NetSuite platform.

Inbound – Interfaces on PO’s, Return Authorizations & Receipts.

Outbound – Sales Orders, Inter-company transfers, order updates, picked inventory, shipped orders, supplier returns and proof of delivery.

Master Data – Adds and updates for; part records, customers, ship-to destinations, suppliers and kit BOMs.

Warehouse Adjustments – Interfaces for changes that affect the total inventory quantity.