Process,Uses and Features of Repository

The flow of inventory through the repository can be divided into three basic processes:

  • Receiving items at the repository and making them available.
  • Handling items for internal distribution or movement or production.
  • Picking and shipping items to customers or other locations.
The Repository Management System is used to:
  • Easily receive the items.
  • Handle the items. This includes repacking, inventory counting, supplying production, or just moving an item for optimum repository space utilization.
  • Pick the items.
  • Ship the items.

        A Repository Management System (RMS) is mostly used to manage the storage and the movement of inventory. The system tracks the movement of every stock item such the item received, picked, packed and shipped. The RMS is related to Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) is that RMS systems offers optimization of inventory on the basis of real-time information. Information can be generated to show the best location for every item to be put based on historical trends and data.
         The primary purpose of a RMS is to control the movement and storage of materials within an operation and process the associated transactions.  Directed picking, directed replenishment, and directed put away are the key to RMS.  The detailed setup and processing within a RMS can vary significantly from one software vendor to another however the basic logic will use a combination of item, location, quantity, unit of measure, and order information to determine where to stock, where to pick, and in what sequence to perform these operations.

Features
  • Stock Intake: from production lines, inter-company transfers or 3rd party locations
  • Stock Palletising: pallet transfer, breakdown, rebuild, add, remove, look-up
  • Stock Put-away: advisory put-away locations based on customer rules
  • Order Picking: ERP links to Sales Orders, real-time validation, multiple operators per order
  • Container Loading: which pallets, which container, which location, weight distribution
  • Stock Transfers: Inter-company transfers, track and scan stock in 3rd party locations
  • Stock Reconciliation: By Product, By Geography, Cycle Counting



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