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Advanced Warehouse Management to Grow Your Operations

In a fast-paced era of global digital commerce, traditional warehouse management solutions are increasingly limiting growth, reducing accuracy, driving up costs, and compromising quality. Despite its critical role, the warehouse is often one of the most overlooked elements of a successful supply chain. To meet rising customer expectations for fast, accurate, and high-quality shipping, businesses are turning to modern Warehouse Management Systems (WMS).

What is Warehouse Management (WMS)?
Warehouse management involves overseeing and optimizing all daily warehouse operations. This includes activities such as receiving orders, managing inventory, fulfilling shipments, and coordinating shipping processes to enhance productivity.

The WMS module offers additional functionality to optimize your warehouse processes, enabling businesses to streamline workflows, increase accuracy, and reduce operational costs.

Efficient warehouse management is essential for success. It delivers fast, high-quality service, reduces costs, improves the supply chain, and strengthens relationships with suppliers and customers. Learn why more organizations are adopting WMS to streamline operations and drive efficiency.

Having a Warehouse Management System (WMS) as part of your business strategy, effectively helps optimize warehouse operations in these 5 major ways:

1. Visibility over all aspects of inventory.

 

2. Expediting the receiving process with inbound logistics.

 

3. Accurate pick and pack logic through the order fulfillment process.

 

4. Automating processes with mobile scanning and equipment.

 

5. Easily assess performance, monitor progress, and analyze data.

Easily manage your supply chain, inventory, and back-office with NetSuite WMS.

NetSuite WMS is a robust and scalable warehouse management solution native to the NetSuite platform. With industry-leading features such as mobile RF barcode scanning, wave planning, cartonization, kitting, and space management, NetSuite WMS increases efficiency, improves operational excellence, and lowers the cost for warehouses of any size and complexity

Key WMS Benefits:

Inbound Logistics
Streamline receiving processes with mobile-enabled tools and predefined putaway strategies. Optimize warehouse space by efficiently capturing item data and organizing storage. 
NetSuite Inbound Logistics Features:

Order Fulfillment
Speed up and improve order processing with intelligent wave release, pick, and pack strategies tailored for single or multiple orders.

• Improve Order Fill Accuracy Using mobile devices
• Increase Order Fill Rate by filling like orders at the same time
• Optimize Inventory Utilization using cross-subsidiary fulfillment.
• Boost Labor Utilization
• Accurate Shipping Details using GS1 barcode scanning
  
  
  
  
  

Mobile Warehouse Management
Leverage the NetSuite WMS mobile app for tasks like receiving, putaway, picking, and packing. Increase productivity, reduce errors, and access real-time inventory insights on the go.

• Cycle & Physical Counting
• Receiving
• Inventory Visibility
• Picking, Packing and Shipping
  
  

Bin Management
Simplify inventory organization with bin management, even in locations without bins, such as retail or smaller warehouses. Assign stock locations and manage inventory seamlessly via mobile devices.

• Manage inventory and stock locations with real-time accuracy
• Increase efficiency with order processing
• Perform tasks with mobile devices

Cycle Counting
Enhance inventory accuracy with Smart Count, an automated cycle counting solution that works without disrupting transactions. Monitor inventory levels and get notified of any changes during the process for precise tracking.

These features work together to optimize warehouse operations, improve accuracy, and drive efficiency in inventory management.

Lower Your Distribution Costs!

Improve your margins through space savings, cycle count reduction, and lower labor costs.

Increase Customer Satisfaction!

Win big by increasing your order fill rates and fulfillment accuracy while reducing shipping errors.

Improve Operational Excellence!

Deliver on time and turn your inventory faster while reducing obsolescence and write-offs.

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“NETSUITE WMS ALLOWS US TO SCALE OUR BUSINESS AND SUPPORT INCREASED DEMAND WHILE MAINTAINING REAL-TIME INVENTORY VISIBILITY AND MEETING DEMAND PLANNING NEEDS.” – JAWBONE 

Key WMS Features

NetSuite WMS offers advanced functionality that streamlines your warehouse operations and ties seamlessly into the core of NetSuite’s business management platform. Key features include:

• Bar Code Scanning
• Wireless RF/Mobile Handhelds
• Advanced Wave Management
• User-Defined Putaway and Pick Strategies
• System-Directed Putaway and Picking
• Order, Cluster, Bulk, and Zone Picking
• Dynamic Forward Pick Replenishments
• Cycle Counting
• Lot/Batch Number with FIFO & FEFO
• Expiration and Shelf Life Tracking
• Serial Number Tracking
• Multiple UPC Codes
• Integrated Advance Ship Notice (EDI/ASN/856)
• GS1 Label and Packlist Printing
• Inventory Tracking with License Plates
• Kitting
• Work Orders and Assemblies
• Labor Productivity Reporting
• Warehouse Dashboards

NetSuite WMS takes warehouse management to the next level for companies around the globe. Contact us today to discover more about how NetSuite WMS can work for your business.

RELATED RESOURCES & DOWNLOADS:
• Download NetSuite WMS Overview
• Supply Chain Management: An Overview Guide
• Managing Unplanned Disruptions in the Supply Chain
• Why Companies Choose NetSuite ERP

 

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