Warehouse Management
Warehouse management may be defined as the process of supporting, organizing, optimizing and controlling the flow and storing of goods within a warehouse.
By continuously informing the system about the stock locations of goods within the warehouse, many warehouse processes such as planning, staffing, directing, and controlling are made more efficient. By using hand held devices in the physical processes, these processes become even more efficient.
Tasks involved in this process
Stocking of goods
Received goods must be stocked at internal stock locations
Moving goods between stock locations
To optimize the physical stock, goods can be moved between stock locations
Picking to project orders, sales orders and production work orders
The goods must be physically picked.
Stock taking
Stock must be counted either periodically or continuously
Stock deviation handling
When deviations in stock counts occur, these stock counts must be corrected by using Stock deviation handling.