The Warehouse Management System (WMS) by ZSL Inc is flexible, configurable, and robust real-time solution for managing inventory, orders, workflow, and achieving ultimate performance. The highly configurable administrative features empower you to create and manage multiple sites and warehouses, monitor and maintain vehicle inventory, design regions and optimum transportation routes, maintain vendor profiles, and establish your own unique hierarchy of products, parts, and materials.

General Functions

• Fully Functional CRM Included / third party CRM compatible
• Complete Activity Date / Time / User Historical Tracking
• Sort Work by User Queue / Task List
• Vendor Profile Management
• Exception based Alerts
• Client Specific Labeling
• Comprehensive and Configurable Security Controls / Roles/ Permissions / Access Rights

Order Processing

• Purchase Order Management
  • Real Time Price & Availability Vendor Integration Capable
• Sales Order Management
  • Real Time Inventory Allocation
  • Order by Warehouse / Location specific
• Ability to record Serial Numbers / Unit Identification Tags at Picking
• Place and Release Client / Credit Holds
• Predictive Orders based on Historical Activity (configurable module)

Procurement Options

• Vendor Integration for real time price and availability
• Broker Bin to Manage Reverse Auction Bids from Brokers
  • Set time, attributes, and target price
• Excess Inventory Auction outbound to Broker Platforms
• Manual Order Processing

Transportation

• Route / Driver Optimization
• Driver Scheduling
• GPS integration / truck location and utilization management
• Vehicle characteristics, limitations, and stick profiles

Receiving Functions

• Paperless Receiving
• Bulk Arrival Receipt Processing
• Last Location Logic
• Receiving Confirmation
• Catch Weight Receiving
• Supports Staging Locations
• Supports Partial Receipts, Hold, and QA
• Record Order, Date / Time, and Inspection Confirmation
• Pallet Building, Container Loading, or Single Unit Put Away
• Manage Expected and Unexpected Receipts / Identify Discrepancies

Shipping

• Supports Parcel, LTL, and TL Shipment Tracking
• Freight Rate Tracking
• Support for Shipping Consolidators
• Identify Disposition / not Returned or not shipped items

Inventory Functions

• Summary & Drill-down by Region, Warehouse, Location, Group, Status, Units of Measure, Value
• Comprehensive Historical Tracking of All Transactions by Date / Time, User, and Result
• Inventory View by Status (arrival, receiving, put away, inventory, allocated, picked, etc)
• Place and Release Holds / Allocations
• Serial Number Tracking Capable
• Bar Code Input / Output (unit / group / location)
• Multiple Units of Measure (Quantity / Count, Weight)
• Multiple Levels of Product / Part / Material Hierarchy (Brand, Family, Category, Model, Part, Material, Unit of Measure, etc. User Configurable)
• Manage Substitutions, Upgrades, Generics, and OEM Reference Numbers
• Manage Unit Attributes
  • Core Return Values, Field Scrap, Cosmetic, NLA, Accessory, Vendor Return Address, etc
    • Last Order Date
    • Last Used Date
    • Inventory Available
    • Average Cost
    • Last Purchase Price
    • MSRP
    • Valuation calculation by actual items and / or FIFO average cost
  • Upload images, create / modify descriptions, assign to BOM, multiple brands, etc
• Manage OEM original New or Reconditioned status
• Manage Bill of Materials
• Move / Transfers
• Individual Item Identification Tags capable
• Supports FIFO
• Pallet Tracking / Group Moves
• Gaylord Tracking / Group Moves
• Container Tracking / Group Moves
• Bin Tracking / Group Moves
• Truck Stock Inventory Management / Templates
• Date Lot / Unit Tracking
• Yard Management
• Supports Multiple User Configurable Warehouses
• Physical Inventory
  • By Regions, Warehouse, Group, Location
  • By Status, Quantity / Count, Weight, Value (Cost / Price)
• Cycle Counting
  • Directed and manually initiated Cycle Counts
  • Opportunity Cycle Counts (empty locations during picking)
  • Configurable Schedules, Blind Count, Real Time Confirmation
  • Automatically generate cycle recounts for discrepancy validation
• Kitting
• Sequenced Pick & Put Away
• Min / Max Replenishment / Restocking
• Excess / Overstock / Obsolete Sell Option
• Zone Picking
• Staging

Reporting

• Configurable Reports / Forms on Demand
• Tracking Labels
• Location Labels
• Bill of Lading (BOL)
• Packing Lists
• Manifests
• Invoices
• Credits
• Export Control
• Regulatory / Compliance
• Claims Forms
• Custom Forms
• Employee Productivity Tracking
• Dashboard / Graphical Representations of Trends, Activity, etc
• Ad Hoc Reporting / Real Time Data
  • Filter, Sort, and View Results
  • Export to Excel, PDF, Word ®, or Excel ®
• Demand Planning
• Process Delay identification and alerts

Financial Integration / Reporting

• Transaction Queries, Reporting, and Export
• Integrate with Financial Packages
  • Quick Books
  • JD Edwards
  • Great Plains
  • Microsoft Dynamics
  • Sage

Environmental Compliance

• Integrated with Silvanus360
• Notify local collector or recycler for coodinated pickup
• Proper Asset Recovery, Parts Harvesting, or Material Reclamation auditble tracking
• Profit Sharing opportunities with integrated recyclers
• Government Forms and Reports included

Professional Services / Other
(* Additional fees for professional services)

• Customization (UI Appearance, custom fields, custom integration, etc)
• Capable of supporting multiple languages
• Capable of supporting multiple currencies
• Capable of supporting multiple units of measurement / weight
• Legacy inventory migration support

Create templates to manage truck stock. Utilize the powerful group functions for pallet, container, Gaylord, and bin inventory and moves for speed and efficiency. Hard-allocation of orders to location assures accuracy and immediately identifies manual discrepancies. Cycle Counts maintain consistency and alleviate the frequency of expensive physical inventories.

The ZSL Inc Warehouse Management Systems boasts a state-of-the-art queue-based workflow management system that creates real-time updated task-lists for optimum user performance and resource utilization. The unique queue-based approach assigns action items based on activity so each user has visibility to dynamically updated assignments. Each queue contains built-in filter and sorting utilities that can export to print, PDF, Word ®, or Excel ® for Ad Hoc reports on-demand. Identify and resolve delays or discrepancies in real-time as issues arise, not after the fact.

Vendor Profile Management and flexible warehouse management support a combination of procurement methods, including direct sourcing and Vendor Managed Inventory. Integration with suppliers enables real-time price and availability comparison. Real-time status tracking enables inventory allocation for maximum utilization and cost valuation. Tracking and disposition controls manage returns, core credits, and compensation, as well as identifying human process delays or discrepancies. Detailed historical tracking by date / time, event, user, and financial transaction ensure accurate reporting with complimentary output to several financial packages.

Benefits

Extend you ROI with Highly Configurable Feature Rich Administration Menus. Add and manage regions, warehouses, locations, groups, and users. Create and manage hierarchy of products, as well as itemized master list of attributes for goods. Manage products, parts, and materials by configurable units of measure (quantity or weight), as well as user defined hierarchy attributes.

Work Direction and Event Driven Queue-based management platform provides each user with configurable task-list of real-time updated activities / action items to perform. This increases labor productivity and maximizes utilization of resources.

Ad Hoc reporting based on real-time queue-based workflow and inventory management enables prompt identification of discrepancies or delays to generate real-time visibility and resolution. Ad Hoc reports are consistent and familiar. Real-time visibility eliminates the need for research to resolve post-issue

Decrease Order Processing Time and increase order accuracy. Boost perfect order rates and virtually eliminate put away and picking errors. Reduce direct operating costs and increase overall revenue

Improve inventory management and accuracy with real-time visibility and hard-allocation of orders to locations. Increase inventory utilization with end-to-end status visibility from arrival, receipt, confirmation, put-away, allocation, shipping, and transportation. Reduce Shipping errors and improve performance with transaction-based documents on-demand

System Directed Activities, Work Flow Management, and Task Sequencing improve the use of human and warehouse resources. Queue based process management

Supports Vendor Management Inventory (VMI), Direct, and multiple Procurement Methods

Configurable individual User Access Controls, Roles Management, Operational Parameters, and Permissions for Security

Compatible integration by real time Web Services, XML, FTP with 3PL operations, vendors, suppliers, and clients for order processing, purchasing, sales, pricing, availability, and transaction management.