Assignment On Important Functions Of A Warehouse Management System

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Cloud based solutions
The important functions of a warehouse management system are receiving of the goods,
tracking the stocks, ensuring efficient storage, shipping and picking of goods, dispatching of the
goods etc. There are various cloud based solutions like SaaS, IaaS, PaaS which needs to be
deployed in the given environment. These services are based on the web which permits the
businesses for the selection of the various functions of the web in place of a fully blown
application (Glukhov et al., 2016). The applications that are based on the web integrates several
parts of the warehouse management system with the utilization of the open standards of UDDI
and XML over the backbone of a protocol like the services based on web are helpful in tracking
of the stocks, dispatching of goods, processing of accounts etc. This permits the warehouse
management system for selecting the various assortments of the web applications. The cloud
based solutions are:
SaaS: This is the most widely utilized cloud based solution that helps in providing numerous
authorization to the cloud tenants for certain applications. A complete solution is provided by
SaaS which is managed as well as owned by the service providers of IT which in turn are optimal
for the applications of the end-user for the regular operations. The various strengths of this cloud
based solution are minimum capital expenses where the need for large capital is eliminated by it,
less time taken for the implementation where few weeks is required for implementing it in the
warehouse management system as compared to that of the on-premise systems that takes months
to get implemented (Lopez-Coronado et al., 2015). The feature of scalability is also available in
SaaS where the web-enabled computers can software with the utilization of hardware that
consumes time. This cloud based solution possesses easy utilization and is not complicated for
the end users along with optimization of various operations. The weaknesses of SaaS are loss of

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control, issues regarding the requirements for connectivity, limited applications, very slow speed
along with various features and functions.
IaaS: This cloud based solution stands for infrastructure as service. The advantages of IaaS are it
is very budget friendly and helps in saving costs as the required capacity is paid by the
organization whenever needed at a certain time period. This cloud-based solution is scalable and
flexible too. It possess high availability and faster time for marketing. It also helps in focusing on
the growth of the business (Keegan et al., 2016). The weaknesses that are related to IaaS are
security issues, technical issues, flexibility issues. Its weaknesses also include issues related to
extra dependency for data on the providers and privacy of the users. It also includes drawbacks
related to maintaining, virtualized services and upgrading the software.
PaaS: Platform as a Service has various advantages like management of streamlined application,
reduction in the complexity, faster time for marketing, increment in agility, instant access to the
internal infrastructure, efficient computing and a secure and reliable method for accessing the
software applications and packages. It possesses easy and simple utilization. Along with various
advantages, some disadvantages of this cloud based solution are privacy of data, mix-up of the
complexities which results due to the development of some local applications and cloud
applications (Maximini et al., 2018). The other disadvantage is the migration of the vendors that
leads to a huge problem.
In other words, there various benefits of a cloud-based solution. Its implementation is
very simple. The accessibility of the cloud-based solutions are easy. These are very flexible as
well as reliable regarding data backup. Extra software or hardware is not required for the
implementation of the cloud-based solution. These are budget friendly, requires no downtime,
have limitless storage and are scalable. This is helpful in restoring the data that are lost. Along