The toniq Warehouse Management System comes supplied as modules allowing the user to choose which features they require.
Goods Inward
This mandatory module allows pallets to be booked into the warehouse and moved from location to location.
Key features:
- Purchase Orders can be loaded into toniq WMS by email or data-load from the customers existing accounts system
- Goods can be checked into a holding area either "blind" or against an expected Purchase Order
- Screens are available to capture tracking information (eg Lot Numbers, Expiry Dates, Temperature of chilled food, etc)
- Goods Received paperwork is produced
- Put-Away paperwork is generated
- Costed transactions are available for posting to an accounts system, or the Stock Accounting module
Pallet Release
The Pallet Release module is intended for warehouses storing third-party stock.
Lists of pallets can be built up for retrieval, retrieval notes generated for warehouse operatives, and release notes generated to travel with the departing stock
Costed transactions are available for posting to an accounts system, or the Stock Accounting module
Picking
This powerful module allocates available stock onto customer orders. Customer orders can be data-loaded from an existing capture system, or keyed straight into toniq WMS.
Before producing Pick Notes, available stock is allocated onto the customer order. The Allocation process is very configurable, and includes sections for:
- Central Allocation - adding products to an order
- Zero Allocation - ensuring products are removed from an order (eg quality issue)
- Substitution - powerful chains of substitution can be set up eg "if the customer orders A then give them A until it runs out then give them B" and many other variations.
- Rationing - rationing a order line to a percentage of what the customer ordered, with minimum and maximum quantities set - ensuring that all branches receive some stock.
- Pallet building - ensuring that pallets built aren't too large or heavy.
Replenishment
The Replenishment module ensures that pick sites contain enough product to fulfill customer orders. It handles stock rotation by suggesting pallets for replen with the shortest Durability Date, or oldest Delivery Date. The replenishments are always "suggestions", in that they can always be over-ridden by the user if the warehouse operative was unable to reach the suggested pallet.
Recognising that different warehouses operate in different styles, we offer three ways to run the replenishment:
- Predictive Replenishment - designed to be run during a "pick", this lets you select a number of customer orders and "try" the allocation to see how many replenishments would be needed.
- Pick Replenishment - each pick site holds a "minimum" pick value. If the quantity of stock in the site is below that value, then a replenishment is generated.
- General Replenishment - designed to be run at a time when there is no picking going on, each site holds a "general" stock level. If the quantity of stock in the site is below that value, then a replenishment is generated.
Quarantining / Positive Release
The Quarantining module allows Pick Locations and Pallets in the warehouse to be flagged as "Reserved"
- Reserved Pallets cannot be replen'd into picksites
- Reversed Pallets are not counted as "free stock" for picking or replenishment
- Flagging a pick location as reserved means nothing can be moved in or out of it, and the stock held in it will not be used for Picking.
- There can be different types of reservation set, with only certain users allowed to remove them - eg quality assurance reservations can only be removed by QA users, not warehouse users
The Positive Release module works with the quarantine model. It allows users to specify which products must be automatically quarantined when booked into the warehouse. This is used to ensure that chosen goods are not released into warehouse stock for sending to customers without first being approved by a member of the QA department.
Stock Count
Count Sheets are produced by warehouse aisle showing locations and the product expected to be there. The sheets can be produced either with current stock levels or without (to allow a "blind" count). Sheets can be produced for only the pick sites within an aisle, or for the storage locations too.
The stock count entry program allows "what was found" to be keyed against "what toniq WMS thinks is there", and the difference between the two is posted as a stock adjustment.
Costed adjustments are available at this point to post to an accounts system or the Stock Accounting module.
Transfers
For users with more than one warehouse, this module allows transfers between the warehouses, with programs for retrieving stock from a source warehouse and producing delivery paperwork.
At the destination warehouse the transfer is confirmed into stock
Costed transactions are available from both warehouses to load into the Stock Accounting module or an accounts system. Transaction include cost-adjustment entries should a product leave one warehouse at one cost, and be booked into the destination at a different cost.
Stock Accounting
The Stock Accounting Module receives costed transactions from the modules in toniq WMS and produces costed audit trails for accounting purposes.
The stock summary report shows the current stock situation at case quantity, cost price and selling value, plus shows totals of all Goods Received, Transfers, Adjustments, Stock Counts and Issues.
Transport Planning
A diary of proposed deliveries is produced from a daily template. Cross-referencing to the picking module allows the Transport module to predict likely load levels in advance, allowing the transport staff more time and flexibilty in planning delivery runs.
Orders can be moved between runs to best utilise the available trailer space.