Support processes

This includes all the processes needed for the efficient control of stock and warehouse. The most important processes are:

Stocktaking - Physical control of the goods both in wall-to-wall mode or based on a cycle count model, which can be performed by item, by location groups, by stock status or ownership.

Quality control - Management and support for stock inspection and control activities. Option available to define dedicated areas and logical-accounting stock status.

Internal movements - Complete control of all goods movements in the warehouse, independently of the physical movements method: transfers, stock replenishments, free movements, quantity and status corrections.

This includes a series of instruments available to the warehouse manager for the logical configuration and organization of the physical space:

Areas and warehouses - Sectioning of warehouse into logical areas and definition of each individual location’s characteristics, including the logistics attributes needed to guide storage, transport and picking logics.

Pallet types - Classification of every type of support used in the warehouse so as to manage the product-support-location combination according to physical compatibility and space saturation criteria.

Occupancy - Detailed information on stocks, monitoring and reporting on space used and warehouse saturation.

This includes all the added-value processing tasks typical of the industrial sector where the company operates. By processing we mean different operations and activities other than ordinary movements, altering any of the stock’s logical or physical attributes.

Among other processing activities, kitting and de-kitting are particularly interesting because they are present in many industrial sectors.

Kitting - Operations to create a new product assembling components picked from stock. The new product can then in turn be sent to stock or directly to shipment. This operation is typical of sectors where products are subject to different configurations or customisations.

De-kitting - Picking operations for products in stock (e.g. display units with a number of products) and put away of the relative basic components in the warehouse. It is the inverse of kitting, often linked to the process of managing products returned to the warehouse.