Warehouse Management System: Hardware and Software Requirements

This report discusses the hardware and software requirements for a warehouse management system, its benefits and drawbacks, and recommendations for improvement. It covers topics such as reducing operation expenses, improving inventory visibility, and continuous improvement. The report also identifies issues such as system crashes and malicious hacks.

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Table of Contents
Introduction..........................................................................................................................2
Discussion............................................................................................................................2
Hardware and software for IT system.............................................................................2
Use of chosen IT system in profession............................................................................3
Characteristic and properties of profession of IT system................................................4
IT system for the overall task..........................................................................................4
Issues identified...............................................................................................................5
Conclusion...........................................................................................................................5
Recommendation.................................................................................................................6
References............................................................................................................................7

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Introduction
The following report highlights the hardware and software requirement which is used by
warehouse manager (Atieh et al. 2016). The report deals with hardware and software
information technology system. After that, a comparison has been done on the various hardware
and software requirement which is needed in various fields (Alyahya, Wang and Bennett 2016).
The coming pages of the report mainly deal with design, implementation, test and simple control
system which is done by making use of logic (Alekseev et al. 2016). After that a document has
been done with respect to design, implementation and lastly planning and testing of simple
control system. The last section of the report provides a list of recommendation for the existing
system.
Discussion
Hardware and software for IT system
Warehouse management System mainly comprises of hub of large number of supply
chain solution, integration of accounting orders and lastly shipping software system. It also
comprises electronic data interchange system and radio frequency (Laudon and Laudon 2016).
Apart from all this, it comes up with hardware and warehouse automation equipment.
Combination of radio frequency with the given barcode technology comes up with robust and
Internet-based architecture. WMS aims to deliver a very powerful, scalable and flexible kind of
real-time warehouse management system (Alyahya, Wang and Bennett 2016). It is very helpful
in boosting performance and reducing cost. It can also lead to fulfillment of orders, improving
the customer satisfaction and providing much better rate of return. WMS mainly comes large
number of components like

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 Internet connectivity
 Real-Time RF-based technology
 Barcode Technology
 Option of Pick and Pack
 Automating handling of materials through system integration
 Returning of processed Goods.
 Substitution of Item
 EDI (Electronic Data transfer)
 Activity and monitoring of performance
 Tracking of Retail price
Use of chosen IT system in profession
Warehouse manager mainly requires warehouse management system because of large
number of benefits like:
Reducing the expense of Operation: A properly designed WMS can be considered to be
helpful in reducing the overall expenditure of the organization (Alyahya, Wang and Bennett
2016). By the help of WMS, warehouse manager can easily keep a track of large number of
materials, products and lastly equipment’s which is needed for optimizing the overall flow in the
warehouse.
Improving the visibility of Inventor: Inventor visibility is taken to be as one of the vital
factors for WMS (Eroshkin et al. 2017). It can easily provide real-time data on the given
inventory with the help of barcoding, serial number and lastly RFID tagging.

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Continuous improvement: One of the biggest benefits of warehouse management
system is that it requires updates on continuous basis (Tukai et al. 2016). WMS vendor focuses
on providing new features which can easily affect the whole organization. It is considered to be
as one of the best methods to stay on the top.
Improving Security: A large number of warehouse management program generally need
employee’s user account for carrying out the overall transaction (Chen et al. 2016). It ultimately
creates a proper kind of audit trail which is needed for connecting various employees.
Characteristic and properties of profession of IT system
As a warehouse manager, there is certain number of roles and responsibilities for which a
warehouse management system is needed (Fichtinger et al. 2015). There is large number of
software from which a particular choice needs to be made for handling of material and
management of warehouse (Tukai et al. 2016). There is certain number of programs which can
be used for inventory control, labor, maintenance of equipment. This particular system is needed
for understanding the efficiency of the given warehouse (Laudon and Laudon 2016). Along with
this, a proper customer satisfaction needs for labor control, maintaining of equipment, shipping
and many other.
IT system for the overall task
Warehouse management system can be considered to be as one best system which can be
used by warehouse manager for managing warehouse like
 Proper management of orders
 Receiving of containers
 Pickling of Multi-zone

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 System for proper shipment
 Barcode printer.
Shipping System: By the help of level of proper integration, WMS can easily provide
interface within the different transport system (Alekseev et al. 2016). By help of WMS, various
kind of order can be easily sent which is needed for tracking data.
EDI system: WMS comes up with the function of generating all the needed data in the
given standard shipment notice.
Barcode printers: Warehouse management system comes up with Zebra and another
kind of barcode printers.
Issues identified
Warehouse management system comes up with some issues like
System Crash: The biggest issue with WMS is the crash of system (Chen et al. 2016).
Various issues like corrupt hard drive, outage of power and another kind of issues can easily
result in loss of vital data.
Malicious hack: Various hackers around the globe focus on the goal of entering into the
system anyhow (Atieh et al. 2016). An inventory connected devices can be for connecting point
of sale-devices along with accounting. It can easily lead to search for potential and financial
information for gathering data of the owners.
Reduces physical audits: As everything is automated, it is considered to be time-
consuming for analyzing various aspects (Fichtinger et al. 2015).

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Conclusion
From the above pages of the report, it can be easily stated that this report is all about
warehouse management system. In the above pages, the need of warehouse management system
by warehouse manager has been discussed in details. Warehouse management system is
considered to be very much vital for any organization which sells and buys products for its
customers. All the benefits and drawbacks of warehouse management system have been
discussed in details.
Recommendation
There are large number of recommendation for overcoming the current issues in
warehouse management system like
 Maximizing and Optimizing all the space.
 Lean of inventory
 Adopting new kind of technology
 Proper organizing of workstation
 Optimizing labor efficiency.

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