Warehouse management system

What is a warehouse system?
What are the features?
How do you implement?
What do you get?
Hardware and network
Support
Establishing the best solution

Why use Juniper Innovations?
What to do next?
Who uses the software?
Solution benefits
Related blogs & articles
Warehouse system blog
Relevant products

What is Juniper Innovations’ warehouse management system?

Barcode Juniper Innovations’ warehouse management software is a system for manual warehouses and distribution centres. You can track data on every component/finished product using the latest technology. Improve the accuracy of every order, reduce safety stock, lower costs by automating key warehouse processes from goods receipt through to putaway, replenishment, picking, kitting, packing, marshalling, despatch and returns management. Have greater control with full inventory tracking within a warehouse or across a collaborative supply chain using web, mobile worker, RFID, radio frequency and voice technologies. The software also fully integrates with SAP. It also works hand in glove with our warehouse productivity improvement. Read warehouse management system case studies here >>>

What are the features?

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Juniper Innovations’ warehouse management system is designed for warehouses and distribution centres that use people rather than large automated systems to help receive, record, move and despatch inventory. Our software helps you to manage and control manual work around the warehouse and will improve your productivity as a result. Efficiency is also increased as the software integrates with barcode readers, radio frequency terminals, RFID, voice picking systems, any browser based handheld terminal and browser based personal computers and laptops. The software has also been designed to work in a number of industry sectors including with a variety of products including fresh food and drink, fast moving consumer goods, meat, fish, poultry, batch controlled products and non-perishable long lasting products such as furniture and books.

Parameter driven functionality

Juniper Innovation’s warehouse management software is designed to be versatile. This gives you greater tracking and management control in a number of areas. With parameter driven functionality you receive greater flexibility in areas including:

Warehouse layout
Stock flow
Large range of component and finished packaging materials flow through and storage
Hazardous stock, fresh & frozen food, batch and lot tracking
Multiple picking methods including various types of cross docking, kitting assembly and de-assembly, wave, pick by line, pick by store/customer etc.
Stock management whereby the stock owners are different e.g. organisations, business units, customers etc.

This all helps you to quickly and efficiently change the way you operate according to changing internal organisation, product and customer requirements.

Space management

To help reduce your storage costs there are a number of space management features including:

3 dimensional storage definitions and views to see storage space and constraints at a glance
Different strategies for automatic storage location and container type assignments
Using neighbourhood concepts to store types of product
Multiple types of container/distribution unit definitions according to the nature of the product and its handling for storage, picking and despatch
Use of alternative locations to cope with high turnover

Goods receipt management

To reduce goods receipt dock space, labour costs, speed up goods receipt and real time supplier management our software helps you by:

Monitoring goods receipt utilisation and floor space in real time
Controlling a supplier daily delivery diary split by fractions of a day
Monitoring dock capacity in real time including new goods receipt activities
Authorisation workflow for un-booked deliveries
Waiting time and residence management of suppliers that have arrived and are waiting with the registration of entry and exit of all vehicles
Ability to receive multiple orders from a supplier in a single block when delivered by the same vehicle
Ability to receive multiple orders from multiple vendors in a single block, when they are delivered by the same carrier in the same vehicle
Fast goods receipt administration e.g. linking paperwork with goods receipt numbers and physical lines received, managing and communicating discrepancies
Use technology to enable more than one person to goods receive the same vehicle in order to accelerate the receipt process
Workflow control enabling approval requirements of goods receipt documentation e.g. for specific customers, shipments and/or exceptions
Automatic assignment of products to picking, buffer, cross dock or despatch locations
Automatic assignment of products to single or mixed locations or containers
Integration of ASN messages to perform automatic receipts
Ability to collect data through EAN 128 UCC bar codes, as lots, number of units and their weight

Picking, packing and despatch

To reduce customer order management time, lower picking costs and reduce stock movement our system functionality gives you:

Automatic order management interface
Setting up picking waves based on delivery and pick run lead times
Defining fixed delivery routes by day of the week including grouping shipments by customer, destination or other group. This includes where customers have multiple deliveries in one day
Setting customer(s) delivery sequences, defining picking routes, setting picking and despatch priorities
Monitoring vehicle fill percentages and triggering recommended actions
Loading bay assignment and real time floor space and productivity monitoring

To help reduce picking costs and speed up order picking our software gives you:

Real time productivity measurement
FIFO/LIFO/batch and LOT management
Separate full and part pallet picking. Also separate single and small line picking to improve productivity
Setting customer priority for stock or reserving stock for specific customers or orders
Pick from buffer locations and/or back pick from buffer locations i.e. when picking locations were empty due to inventory inaccuracies or non-availability of personnel to complete fork lift truck movements
Flexible framework to synchronize picking location replenishment from buffer or block storage locations
Pick by line and pick by client execution methods
Using picking neighbourhood concepts i.e. selecting the nearest people to complete the work in order to reduce travel distance and time
Supporting multiple picking strategies with no product maintenance e.g. just in time, flow-through, cross docking, semi-cross docking etc
Supporting multiple picking strategies with product maintenance e.g. batch picking, two step and picking based on weight

Inventory management

To maintain accurate stock levels, reduce picking and stock movement costs our software gives you:

Total freedom in defining different ways to count and adjust stock e.g. cycle counting, post-pick counts, domestic consumption and sampling etc.
Great flexibility in managing customer returns, returns to suppliers and no returns policies
Providing intelligent real time information about cycle counting

Labour management

A key module in Juniper Innovations’ warehouse management system is the ability to manage, systematically control and report on labour productivity, task completion and movements in real time.

The warehouse system operates at individual and team level across a wide range of areas including:

Goods receipt
Putaway & stock movement
Picking & packing
Marshalling & despatch
Inventory control

Radio frequency and voice technology

Radio frequency and voice technology can be used throughout the system including fork lift trucks and mobile workers. This is standard and proven integration and works with many solutions including:

Motorola/Symbol
Psion Teklogix
LXE

RFID integration

From tracking containers, pallets and roll cages through to outer cartons and retail units, RFID integration is a standard part of our system. This is standard and proven integration and works with many solutions including:

Motorola
Intermec

Standard interfaces

The warehouse software has many standard proven interfaces giving a risk averse implementation process. These interfaces include:

ERP systems including SAP & Oracle
Financial systems
All common internet browsers e.g. Internet Explorer, Firefox, Google Chrome etc
Windows mobile browsers

Reports suite

Juniper Innovations’ warehouse management software has a comprehensive reporting suite. This covers all areas of the solution and also allows reports to be created on the fly using our report writer functions. Plus management information can be easily exported into spreadsheets and other reporting packages if required.

How do you implement Juniper Innovations’ warehouse system?

To implement the warehouse software we recommend having a small project team made up of a few key members of your team and ours.

Upfront we discuss and define together the objectives to be achieved with the implementation so all whole effort is directed towards this.

We next discuss the best system architecture for you, how, where and what hardware & software will be set-up, interface and technical requirements for testing and training.

Following this we agree an implementation plan and process and begin training. This includes how best to include your entire team in the project, engaging them, adopting ownership and understanding how the system will improve their work. Then through our extensive training courses you will learn about our system processes, parameters and data requirements in order that the system is set up to meet your organisation’s requirements.

Understanding the central system concepts is essential to help model the software based on your current needs. The system is flexible enough however for you to change and increase functionality over time as your product, internal organisation and customer demands change.

The parameters in your software can then be set-up ready for data load, local testing and user training.

Training teams of end users directly is a pragmatic approach according to job roles. The fundamental objective is to prepare each individual for the performance of their duties.

Juniper Innovations warehouse management system When you are satisfied training and testing is complete cutover preparations begin and continue until the system goes live.

You will receive 10+ years worth of tried and tested implementation methodology. From mapping your current layout and shipping networks, improving your processes, setting up, cleaning and migrating your data and testing your hardware through to local training, education and support, full cutover management and detailed planning and communication throughout.

When you are live helpdesk support provides cover during your working hours. This is for functional and technical help. We also provide a Remote Intervention Service, available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week for ensuring the software functions smoothly.

What do you get?

Juniper’s warehouse management software is configured to meet your specific requirements.

The software is based on your choice of Oracle or MySQL databases, running on Unix and Windows operating systems.

The solution is also offered as a Software as a Service (SaaS) solution. In summary it is:

Fully configurable for your organisation
Scalable
Web based user interface
Proven stable having been used at customer sites for over 10 years
Integrates with Juniper Innovation’s RF, RFID, wireless tracking, voice technology, mobile worker and authentication and security solutions

Warehouse system hardware and network

Through our specialist support partners we are able to offer a wide range of hardware and network equipment whether you require:

A new installation
Changes to existing solutions

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Juniper Innovations customer support

Juniper Innovations’ support packages can be tailored around your organisation. From 9 to 5 to 24/7 solutions you get support to meet your business requirements. Our standard support includes a 9-5 weekday helpdesk, 24/7 server maintenance and remote diagnostic support for drivers on the road.

In addition you get free software updates every 6 months.

Establishing the best solution

Our specialist consultants will apply our warehouse management methodology and work with you to analyse your needs and recommend the best solution to fit your organisation. Typically this is based on our core and bolt-on products and how to get the best from them. Plus where required your solution may include additional bespoke work tailored around your organisation’s value added processes.

When the paperwork is agreed our team will confirm a go-live plan with you, develop and test the solution, help implement your solution locally and train your personnel. Deployment is fast so you start getting the benefits immediately.
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Why use Juniper Innovations’ warehouse management system?

There are many reasons to choose this software including:

We agree the benefits and objectives for your system upfront and deliver against them
There is a high degree of functionality to support your changing organisation requirements, including 2 optional upgrades per year
The software is hardware independent meaning you can use it on many different data capture, radio frequency, mobile PC and work station devices
Wrap your licence, implementation and support costs into a monthly fee rather than paying upfront with our Software as a Solution option
Many very large companies already use the software and will give you a strong site reference
24/7 support options exist for round the clock peace of mind

What to do next?

To find out more how Juniper Innovations’ warehouse management solution can give your organisation specific specific benefits contact us for a free consultation.

Who uses the software?

Read Juniper Innovations’ client case studies here>>>

Read Juniper Innovations related blogs and articles here>>>

What are the solution benefits?

Improved labour management

With productivity measured in real time and through management reports you’ll learn how to reduce costs, reduce overtime and manage work peaks and troughs more cost efficiently.

Efficient operations

Reducing inventory through accurate receipt, stock control and despatch, whilst reducing stock movements and distance travelled will enable your operation to be faster and work more effectively.

Intelligent information

With online live and historic reporting information produced in easy to read formats this is useful operational intelligence for your team and management enabling better control and decision making.

Latest technology integration

From mobile worker integration, GPS vehicle tracking, wireless tracking, RF, RFID and voice technology integration your software has up to date integration with the latest technology. Through continued product investment we aim to keep your software ahead of the game.

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