Warehouse Management System
Improve profitability with IT solutions that increase efficiency and reduce errors
Flexible, Reliable, Scalable
A Warehouse Management System (WMS) is of vital importance in the modern market. It makes your operations faster, more efficient, and more reliable, but not all systems are created equal. To stay ahead of the competition, your warehouse needs to track stock more accurately, commit fewer errors, and have access to as much tracking data as possible. Apex Computer Systems provides the hardware, software, and management services you need to achieve these goals.
We’ll help you integrate barcode scanners, RFID devices, wireless LANs, and IoT devices into your WMS, then link everything with Dynamics 365 Business Central. This powerful software from Microsoft will empower you to meet your supply chain needs with advanced analytics and improved communication. Our expert technicians will ensure a seamless integration that offers maximum benefits without the hassles of management.
WMS services will help you increase efficiency and profitability by:
- Guaranteeing access to real-time inventory and shipping data with the necessary analysis for efficient warehouse planning
- Standardizing the receiving process to properly handle shipments when they are received at warehouses
- Tracking stock and returns and predicting product needs so that storage is minimized, demand is met, waste is reduced, and margins are maximized
- Analyzing warehouse data on a real-time basis to better control inventory levels and anticipate changing customer needs
- Achieving higher productivity and accuracy throughout your warehouse operations
For clients with warehouses, Apex employs the PALMS Warehouse Management System, a web-based WMS that simplifies real-world challenges, improves performance, and helps drive business growth. This multifaceted solution empowers businesses to quickly adapt to changes with real-time information streams, powerful analytics, and much more. With PALMS, our clients are able to better control costs and turnaround time, leading to reduced loss and improved customer satisfaction.
To ensure you get the most out of Palms Smart WMS, the team at Apex will work closely with you to determine the most efficient way to implement it into your existing systems. We’ll configure your customized solution to better meet your unique needs and goals, and train your staff on its use.
Once implemented, PALMS will empower you to simplify complex processes and utilize your time, space, equipment, and workforce at peak efficiency.
WMS has a wide range of advanced features that utilize powerful software to help your staff improve:
- Inventory Management – with real-time inventory visibility and tracking, as well as control mechanisms to control cost and efficiency
- Inbound Operations – with real-time shipment synchronization, supplier collaboration, and more
- Outbound Operations – with shipping document generation, load optimization, configurable picking strategies, and more
- Billing –with more accurate charge tracking, customizable billing configurations, and full accounting software integrations
- Task Management – with features that automatically assign tasks to designated operators and help manage workflow
- Business Intelligence – with advanced, actionable analytics delivered via an easy-to-use dashboard
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Why
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- The Palms team can engage with clients right from warehouse layout planning, location numbering, standard operating process definition, to actually implementing software which matches with the defined process. This helps create better visibility and control on inventory.
- Electronics Data Interchange (EDI) helps companies integrate their Warehouse Management System to their internal Financial System, Customers' Systems, Suppliers' Systems and eCommerce Portals.
- PALMS Warehouse Management System provides configurable Supply Chain Processes required by companies to provide better customer service and control operational costs.
- Generate your own barcode labels for locations and products using PALMS WMS Labeling Module.
- We provide a unique supply chain experience powered by technology and process to build value for our clients.
Palms Smart WMS Advanced Modular Add-On Features
With an extensive array of valuable add-ons, you can improve your operations even further and future-proof your warehouse
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Wave Picking
PALMS™ Wave Picking module is designed especially for eCommerce-related Picking Operations, where a typical Sales Order contains one or two lines maximum. PALMS™ Wave Picking provides for an automated wave generation based on pre-set criteria by smartly batching orders together for a consolidated pick operation. Sorting functions help to quickly sort the picks, pack orders as per destination, and slot the package as per courier/shipping partner. -
3PL Billing Engine
Using the PALMS 3PL Billing Engine, a 3PL Operator can configure the 3PL contract and let PALMS 3PL Billing Engine compute all the charges based on the configured rules. -
PALMS VMT
PALMS Android-based HHT App is optimized for use with Vehicle Mounted Terminals with long-range scanners. This ensures fast scanning by MHE operators without getting off from their seat in the MHE. This improves the productivity of MHE Operators threefold. -
PALMS Resource & Cost Tracking
PALMS provides for accurate tracking of manpower, machinery, and consumable resources. PALMS Task Management is further extended to provide for automated as well as user-entered resource utilization. Costs can be attached to each resource type and, based on the actual utilization of resources, the cost of executing each transaction is computed. PALMS Analytics’ add-on module provides drill-down and multidimensional analysis functions to spot leakages and MUDA wastages in process. -
Robotic Process Automation- (RPA) Ready Interfaces
RPA interfaces using tools like UIPath are trained to accept various types of digital Supplier Invoices, and thereafter all required data entry from the invoices is made in the system by the RPA robots. This eliminates manual efforts in wasteful MUDA activities.
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PALMS Activity Planner
Operations Research-based heuristics and artificial intelligence drives PALMS Activity Planner and Scheduler. The algorithm applies various constraints like resource availability, MHE availability, dock availability, and shift timings, then schedules the operations of the warehouse. -
PALMS Cross Dock
PALMS Cross Dock helps running operations that can directly allocate and transfer stock from Receiving Bays to Dispatch Bays. Useful in scenarios where Back-to-Back orders are received for dispatch, or Back Orders require a direct transfer from Receiving to Dispatch Bay. -
PALMS Voice Picking
PALMS Android-driven HHT Application can also provide verbal instructions and accept voice input from the binner/picker. This helps in optimizing operations through hands-free reporting of data. -
PALMS Analytics
PALMS supports BI and Analytics reporting tools. PALMS Analytics provides dashboards that cover visual analytics of Throughput, Location Utilization, Planned vs. Actual Receipts, Put Away Details, Put Away Performance, Put Away Quality Monitoring, Put Away Turnaround Time, Planned vs. Actual Dispatch, Dispatch Details, Pick Performance, Pick Turnaround Time, Vehicle Turnaround Time, and Detention Analytics. -
PALMS Forecasting
An end-to-end forecasting engine that can forecast demand, inventory, and purchase quantities based on past demand trends and other variables like seasonality.
Put Your Data to Work with Palms Smart WMS
PALMS arms you with easy-to-understand, actionable reports to give your logistics team a valuable edge.
