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This issue...Mobile Solutions for Agility March 2006

 

If you can track inventory and its movement as it is happening, your whole operation is best equipped to service the customers' needs. For this reason, Agility's Mobile Solutions have proven to equal bottomline benefits for its users.

Mobile Solutions for Agility

DMSi software brings you barcode scanning with mobile solutions for improved warehouse efficiency, time savings, and order accuracy resulting in better customer service. Mobile Solutions, a building block to our full warehouse management solution, is an affordable way to begin the transformation of your warehousing operations with better warehousing practices through the use of barcoding technology.

Mobile Solutions is giving Agility customers some of the benefits of the WMS, in a smaller and easier to implement solution. Boston Cedar has experienced many benefits by implementing Mobile Solutions in their picking process. These solutions allow their operators to update the office with accurate pick information automatically gathered with a wireless terminal out in the yard. This saves them numerous hours spent on manually keying inventory information.

In the future, DMSi plans to supplement their existing solutions by releasing a module that allows you to complete ship verification by route - to ensure the trucks are loaded accurately. Additionally, we will also be releasing a module that will allow users to make material movements and adjustments out in the yard. All of this is designed to make inventory more accurate and further profitability achievable.

Mobile Solutions Modules
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Mobile Picking: the Agility Mobile Picking module improves order fulfillment by allowing the warehouse personnel to scan or key the correct product, location, and quantity at the time that they are physically picking for reman and custom orders. Operating in real time through wireless connectivity to Agility allows office staff to update sales orders and generate pick files for the warehouse to work from. It also updates storage locations and quantities in Agility. When picking is done, delivery tickets can be immediately printed with the accurate information without waiting for office staff to manually update the orders.

Mobile Tag Verification: Product left sitting on the shipping dock due to loader oversight is a costly problem. The Mobile Tag Verification is a wireless real time method for shipping personnel to confirm that they are accurately loading the correct tagged material onto the truck, or that it is confirmed against the correct reman order. Operators are notified real time if they scan the wrong product, or forget to scan product that was picked for the order.

Mobile End Tally: The Mobile End Tally collection feature allows you to create tags or bundles for hardwood-PC and hardwood-BF lumber type items upon receiving or remanufacturing the material and splitting/building tags for picking. You have the option to enter the location/sub-location, lot and tally description prior to entering the specific dimensions and building the contents of the tag. The information is transferred in a single sequential text file containing the tag ID, transaction ID, transaction type, item, thickness, location, lot, tally description, quantity, width and length for each board.

Mobile Physical Inventory: Physical inventories and cycle counting are time consuming enough without the issues associated with data entry errors and illegible handwriting. Mobile Physical Inventory allows users to collect inventory counts on the same handheld scanner used in Mobile Picking and upload those counts directly into the work file in Agility. Entering warehouse locations, item numbers and on-hand quantities is fast, plus you save additional time and improve accuracy without manually re-entering data.

Mobile Receiving: Now, in version 3.0.2, DMSi has taken the abilities of Mobile Solutions a step farther with the release of Mobile Receiving. This application allows users to scan vendors' barcoded product, verify pre tagged units, and enter receipt quantities at the time that they are being received. This saves additional time in the process, as it completely skips the paperwork step is no longer turned in to be later updated by an office person.

See For Yourself
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To experience how Mobile Solutions can help your company take advantage of the benefits of wireless warehouse technology, contact Jim Houser at 800-347-6720 ext. 135 or jhouser@dmsi.com

 

phone: 402-330-6620 ext. 135