Labor is highest cost in most warehouse and fulfillment operations today. Labor management enables business to better utilize valuable labor resources, maintain margin expectations and gain a competitive edge. UMexX’s Labor Management capabilities include labor standards, travel distance, UOM, type, profile, log, track, and task (dependency, standard, actual, sequence, and assignment, etc.)
Fulfillment Center Management
Order fulfillment requires multiple steps in a sequential process like sourcing, manufacturing, backorder management, pick and pack, ship and associated customer communications. Order fulfillment is in the most general sense the complete process from point of sales inquiry to delivery of a product to the customer. Sometimes order fulfillment is used to describe the more … Continued
Multichannel Order Management
Multichannel orders can be received from businesses, consumers in physical stores, eCommerce websites, affiliated businesses, etc. UMexX’s capabilities include order entry, customers, accounts, stock availability, profiling, sourcing, planning, back order, grouping, planning, cartonization, picking, replenishment, value-added processing, packaging, quality control, routing, shipping, and delivery. UMexX’s multichannel order management gives members the flexibility to integrate with … Continued
Extended Automation
Typically there are some degree of automation within a warehouse. For examples, pallets and product move on a system of automated conveyors, cranes and automated storage and retrieval systems (ARSR) coordinated by programmable logic controllers and computers running logistics automation software. For a warehouse to function efficiently, the facility must be properly slotted. Slotting addresses … Continued