S3CO Root WMS is a full-featured, real-time Warehouse Management System with the latest generation of warehouse management features. S3CO Root WMS can support any combination of large / small, multi-owner, multi-warehouse, Pick-by-Zone / Pick-by-Order / Pick-by-Order Type, or wave order processing from the initial installation without modification. Additionally, we support the latest warehouse management and maintenance practices, such as proactive monitoring, performance and utilization reports, central administration, cross-docking, cycle counting, physical inventory, and role-based security. | |
Warehouse Capabilities - Multiple warehouses
- Multiple zones per warehouse
- Warehouse descriptive information
- Name
- Contact name
- Address
- Telephone and fax numbers
- Email alert recipient address
- Warehouse status (allocatable or un-allocatable) flags
- User-configurable order processing across multiple warehouses
Zone Capabilities - Ability to divide a warehouse into zones
- User-definable zone pick sequences within a warehouse
Location Capabilities - Support unlimited locations per warehouse
- Supports multiple SKU per location
- Supports multiple locations per SKU
- Group similar locations into a zone
- Location description
- Track shelf capacity
- User-definable location pick sequence within a zone or warehouse
- Location usage indicators
- Staging location flag
- Receiving location flag
- Shipping location flag
- Allocatable or un-allocatable status flags
- Location status (usable or un-usable) flags
- Dimensional characteristics of the location for use with third-party slotting software
- Maximum location weight value
- Special equipment requirement per location
- Open location reporting
- Over-loaded location reporting
Equipment Capabilities - Maintains inventory of material handling equipment
- Equipment grouping as to type of equipment
- Equipment status (usable or non-usable) flags
- Assigned printer
- Last user information (ID, timestamp, network IP address)
- Acquired date
- Last maintenance date
- Next maintenance date
- Lease end date
Equipment Type Capabilities - Equipment grouping identifier
- Equipment type status (usable or non-usable) flags
Multiple Owner Capabilities - Supports maintaining multiple owners for a SKU
- Maintains separate inventory balances by owner
- Maintains owner-specific information
- Company name
- Contact name
- Address
- Telephone and fax numbers
- Email address
- Email alerting
- All transaction history is tracked by owner
Item Identification Capabilities - Each owner’s SKU is uniquely maintained
- SKU data elements
- Description
- Unit weight
- Stocking unit of measure
- Selling unit of measure (how to use)
- Global on-hand-balance by owner / item
- Prime stocking warehouse / location or prime warehouse / zone (used to generate initial prime warehouse / location)
- Serial / lot control capabilities
- Lot control days for expiration date
- Unit item cost
- Restocking reorder point balance
- Restocking reorder quantity
- Kit identification
- Phantom indicator
- M-T-D picking statistic
- Hazardous material identification
- Commodity code identification
- Special equipment required to handle
- ABC code
Bill of Material - Kit pick processing
- Pick a kit’s components when insufficient
- BOM are owner / item specific
- Supports single-level and multi-level BOM
- BOM has “effective from” and “effective to” date capabilities
Inventory - Full-featured, real-time Inventory Control System (ICS) functionality
- Each SKU on-hand-balance is maintained by location
- Serial / lot control capable
- Maintains allocated balance by SKU at location level
- Allocatable / un-allocatable flags
- Usage status maintained for each SKU by location
- Inventory adjustment capability with transaction history
- Initial inventory on-hand-balance load capability
- FIFO / LIFO inventory control
- Expiration date tracking
- Inventory tracking
- Date-stamped costed inventory transaction history
- Tracks movements of material by employee
- Inventory costing
Receipts - Online receiving data entry
- Interfaced receiving from an existing DRP, ERP, or Order Management System
- Advance shipment notices (ASN) enabled
- All receipts maintain the on-hand-balance at the receiving warehouse / location and global item master
- Direct receipt from truck to stocking warehouse / location
- Directed put-away based on prime warehouse / location rule
- Receiving labels for items received
- Cross-docking capability for multiple order support
- Quality inspection
Wave Order Processing - Wave properties are user-configurable
- Wave order size
- Wave completion percentage launch point
- Supports only customer and internal factory orders
Material Allocation - Ability to allocate material based on warehouse, zone, and location status codes
- User-configurable allocation
- Pick from prime warehouse / location first
- Pick from largest or smallest first
- Pick based on FIFO / LIFO
- Pick from final order destination warehouse only or all warehouses
- Cross-docking inbound receipts
Pick and Put Away - Picking
- Requires completing previous picks first
- Order-specific or zone picking capable
- Order-specific
- User-definable maximum number of order lines to pick
- Pick additional orders capability
- Zone picking
- Pick requests shown based on:
- Current warehouse / location
- Location pick sequence from current location
- After first completed pick request, only pick request going to the same final warehouse / zone as the first pick request will be shown for processing
- User can complete as many pick requests as exist in the warehouse zone or has room to handle
- User has configurable ability to jump to a new zone at any time
- User has ability to switch to order specific processing from zone picking after completing any pending put away requests
- Inter-leaving tasks
- Identification label printing capable
- Picked items associated as a group (license plate)
- Group accumulated weight of all items
- Undo pick capability
- Group items are displayable
- 802.11 Wireless / RF integration for paperless picking and put away
- Put Away
- Requires completing previous put-away tasks first
- Data export of completed orders back to DRP, ERP, or Order Management System when pick completed
- Undo put away capability
- Put away is completed when the group or each item has been put away in the final warehouse / zone or placed in a staging location
- If Wave enabled, the assigned packing slot number will be printed on the pick item identification label
- Cross-docking
Order Processing - Multiple order type capabilities
- Customer orders
- Internal factory orders – warehouse to factory transfer
- Transfer orders – internal transfer
- Packing slip generation
- Directed order processing
- Serial and lot code capable
- Orders processing by priority
- Order specific text capability
- Each line of the order will retain the same text values
Management Processes - Stock Replenishment
- Wave order processing
- Material allocation
- Data import processing
Management Reporting - User-configurable reporting formats
- Inventory transaction history
- Pick and put away history tracks labor efficiency and utilization
- Complete History by SKU / Date
- Complete History By User / Date
- Exception Reports
- Empty locations reporting
- Negative on-hand-balances by warehouse / location
- Invalid transaction reporting
- Stock replenishment reporting
- Dashboards
- Real-time productivity measurements
- Employee Productivity
- Track employee productivity and utilization
- Time Management Tracking
Physical Inventory Management - Physical inventory
- Cycle Counting
- Costed inventory adjustments, receipts, transfers, shipment, and initial balance loading
- Inventory costing evaluation
- Auditing
- All inventory movement logged with date timestamp and employee identification
Security - Integrated system security
- User access roles
- Fully-customizable user roles allow precise control of individual users
Setup and Maintenance - Easy installation
- Easy hardware and software setup
- Step by step setup instructions and examples for:
- Field length customization
- Users
- Warehouse
- Zone
- Location
- Units of measure
- Equipment types
- Equipment identification
- Owner and item IDs
- Bills of material
- Initial inventory on-hand-balance
- Labels
- Printers
- Warehouse and Zone Setup
- Printer Setup
- WebRoot configuration parameter management
- Complete examples and inline FAQs for setting configuration parameters
System Requirements - Web server-based architecture with support for vended or open source web servers
- Open connectivity-based database engines with support for vended or open source (PostgreSQL, MySQL) database management systems
- Import engine supports XML and user-configurable delimited (.CSV) flat file data formats
- Web services support XML SOAP
- Root WMS also supports direct database-to-database connectivity (ETL or DTS)
- System alerts via e-mail or pager
- Complete, auditable system log
- Intranet or Internet ready
- Web user interface designed in JavaServer Faces
- Open database connectivity via JDBC
- Client workstations only require a web browser that supports HTML
- All printers are network attached and shareable
Bar Code Support - Bar code label formats are user-definable
- Supports all ASCII-based label formats (CPCL, EPL, EPL 2, ZPL, ZPL II, etc.)
- Supports all bar code formats (UPC, Code 3 of 9, Code 93, Code 128, Codabar, Code 2 of 5, Postnet, 2D Code 16k, EAN, etc.)
- Four standard bar code labels can be generated:
- Receiving labels
- Pick Item Identification labels
- Group labels (license plates)
- Location labels
- Supports multiple printing protocols - FTP, TFTP, Telnet, LDP / LPR, IPP, and proprietary
- Ability to accept scanned data input
- User-definable scanning prefixes
- ASN
- Item
- Location
- Quantity
- Serial / Lot control ID
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