StockTrack PLUS Core
StockTrack PLUS options
System options will be discussed and agreed with the customer during the proposal and specification stage.
Arrivals
- Unplanned and planned receipts
- Link delivery with purchase orders
- Record unique delivery reference / consignment note numbers
- Receive from end of production line
- Track receipts through pre-put-away stages
- Text note to deliveries
- EDI pre-advice
- Works order pre-advice
- Receive against Purchase Order and Works Order
- Product accuracy and quality check
- Returned goods
Receiving
- » Allow blind or sighted checking
- » Record receipt (and return) of storage media by (optional) serial number pallets, bins etc)
- » Auto quarantine/positive release
- » Best before/batch/production date
- » Serial number recording
- » Individual item attribute recording (e.g. multiple reels on a pallet)
- » Proof of receipt/documentation
- » Allow receipts without documentation
Storage Rules
- Velocity / ABC
- Environmental (temperature, humidity, hazardous material)
- Product and code mix
- Demand level
- Type of demand (broken case, full case, pallet)
- Dimensions cube and weight
- Batch / lot / serial / control, batch date
- Type of storage device
- Replenishment thresholds
- Different rules for same product depending on quantity
- Stack height, Carton life, Pallet life
- Hanging, Top up, Pick up and deposit (P and D, e.g. narrow aisle) control
Storage Types
- Drive in
- Drive through
- Block
- APR
- Double deep
- Flow through
- Mobile
- Narrow aisle
- Very narrow aisle
- Bins
- Carton glide
- Hanging
Putaway
- System selects best location
- System selects normal location
- Truck driver selects location
- Movement via P and D/feeder
- Auto / priority direct to picking
- Auto / priority direct to out going orders
- Identification via stock code or unique pallet / container ID
- Prevent put away in block stacking area currently being used for picking
- Interleaving of pick, replenishment, putaway
- Flexible put-away verification
- Flexible performance reporting
- Container types and stocking factors – zones (frozen, chilled, ambient, ABC)
- Bulk/ pick/marshalling areas
- Location access constraints
- Temperature levels
- Pick-faces
- Urgent order handling
- User selected
- Automated storage
Pick Face Replenishment
- Minimum stock balance in location following allocation (allow multiple pallet positions for fast moving product)
- Dynamic picking locations for slow moving product automatically or manually initiate replenishment
- Top up replenishment by case, layer, full pallet dynamic pick face replenishment
- Product definition (seasonal,cyuclical, normal)
- Current demands
- Storage capacity
- Stock availability
- User defined rules
- Handling categories
- Selectable number of days for historical analysis
- Selectable number of days storage
Quality Control
- Sampling requirements specification
- Product re-grading
- Q C hold – reasons
- Incubation – curing
- Best before / sell by
- Scrap – reason / history
- Product test
- Min / max against user defined criteria
- Pass / fail decision for pallet / batch
- Barcode verification – case, item
- Hold by product, date, location, batch
Full Pallet / Container Retrieval
- System identifies pallet to be retrieved
- Truck driver identifies pallet to be retrieved
- Retrieved via P and D.
- Tracking to destination
- Interleaved with put away
- Retrieved by oldest / batch / required date / nearest / order number
Item Retrieval / Picking
- Auto replenishment
- Consolidated picks
- Heavy / large picks first
- Retrieved by oldest / batch / required date / nearest / order number
- Order pooling
- Rationing / back orders
- Product Substitution
- Promotional product differentiation
- Serial number recording
- Analyse order pool and optimise
- Pick activity based on pick rates, available equipment available manpower, available stock
- Pick wave planning
- Orders classified by overdue, due X days
- Order by customer
- Order by delivery zone
- Pick accuracy
- Orders picked per man per hour
- Items picked per man per hour
Despatch Control
- Record actual truck departure
- Record serial numbers if not recorded
- Record catch weights etc
- Record chargeable containers / pallet
- Order staging prior to despatch
- Creation of shipping labels, documents manifest
- Transfer of orders / carriers
- Stage in reverse drop sequence
- Scan onto vehicle
- Generate trailer map
- Generate despatch documentation
- Total weight, total cube
Returns
- QC hold
- Pre – advice / clearance of returns
- Returns documentation
- Part used returns (e.g. reels, pallets returned for production)
- Re-grade
Stock Check
- Cycle counting
- By time
- Movement history
- Mandatory, counting interval stock
- Blind counts
- More than a defined number of location visits since last count
- More than x months since last count
Stock Hierarchy / Coding
- Vehicle / load
- Pallet
- Layer
- Case
- Inner
- Single
- Allow for product grade, product configuration, customised products
- Units of measure, e.g. metres, Kg etc
Stock Ownership
- Own stock
- Customers stock
- Suppliers stock
- Quarantined stock
Reports
- Stock by owner
- Stock by sell by date
- Stock movement
- Stock scrapped
- Stock by batch / rotation
- Stock by product code
- Stock by product group
- Low stock, zero stock
- Slow moving stock
- Stock transfer
Traceability
- Lot / batch / serial number / pallet / purchase order / works order
Physical Warehouse
- Multi site
- Multi warehouse
- Multi zone
- Multi location
- Super PI
- user confiugrable criteria
Material Handling Equipment interface etc.
- PLCs
- ASRs
- Weighscales
Management Reports
- Despatch throughput
- Warehouse stock
- Warehouse utilisation
- Items / orders picked
- Items / orders despatched
Miscellaneous Requirements
- Invoicing for S H and D
- Space occupied
- Movement / handling activity
- Operations charging
- Event handling
- Event scheduler
General Requirements
- Support RDTs, PDTs, peel off labels
- Record variable items on pallets (e.g. reels)
- Record serialised items on pallets
- Provide general bin store control (fifo traceability)
- Provide traceability
- Allow multiple and different units of measure
- Multi client
- Multi warehouse
- Mix of products, owners, batches, expiry date, lots, stock condition
- Conversion / packaging operations