Vision Document for Auto Parts Warehouse Management System Report

This report presents a vision document for an auto parts warehouse management system designed to address the challenges faced by Jack Greig and Daniel Cox in their Australian auto parts business. The current system struggles with dynamic processes, prompting the development of a new, innovative WMS. The document outlines the core capabilities of the proposed system, including inventory control, order processing, and order management, emphasizing the importance of wireless communication devices for efficient warehouse operations. The report details the benefits of the new system, such as optimized procedures, effective labor allocation, improved employee morale, inventory balance, reduced operational expenses, and enhanced supplier-customer relations. The report aims to transform the warehouse into a competitive advantage, providing a comprehensive overview of the system's functionalities and potential impact on the business.

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Vision Document on Auto Parts Warehouse Management System
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Table of Contents
1. Problem..................................................................................................................................2
2. Capabilities.............................................................................................................................2
3. Benefits..................................................................................................................................3
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1. Problem
Jack Greig and Daniel Cox work as supplies within the business of automotive parts
within Australia. In spite of working for several years, they have been facing issues with their
current system for managing warehouse (Giannikas et al., 2013). The current warehouse
management system of this organization is not having the capability to handle processes of
high dynamic that can be helpful to move or store the inventories at higher efficiency and
lower costs.
Both Greig and Cox have undertaken the core decision to develop an entire new and
innovative automotive parts warehouse system, where the functionalities can be properly
efficiently implemented for the major procedures of this warehouse. This system also has the
ability for transforming their complete warehouse to gain competitive benefits. Greig and
Cox want their future management system for having some of the most significant
functionalities and also will be providing few important organizational operations.
2. Capabilities
There will be some of the core as well as important capabilities of the future
warehouse management system for the business of automotive parts. Both Greig and Cox are
eventually expecting that the new system would be performing few core functions. An
important capability would be controlling the respective inventories (Pane, Awangga &
Azhari, 2018).
This is the core process for ensuring that accurate quantities of the stocks are being
maintained in the business, thus comprising of the core ability to meet each and every
demand of the customer without much delays while preserving the expenses, related to the
lowest holding stocks. Another capability of the system would be receiving all types of orders

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and as they would be dealing with the parts of automotive, receiving or orders would be vital.
Business expansion is possible with huge variation of orders.
The next major capability of this WMS would be order processing, which is required
to understand and process the orders without any error. It is quite helpful to effectively pick
up the orders, with the hope that Greig and Cox can process their orders in low expenses.
Other important abilities include management of order loads, making of the crystal report and
providing outbound documentation (Chen, Hou & Wang, 2013). These are needed to obtain
regular updates for less stocks. The new WMS would even comprise of wireless
communication device of Wi-Fi, hence enabling high production and running distribution
centre without much complexity.
3. Benefits
The future warehouse management system of the automotive parts business for Greig
and Cox will be comprising of few important and noteworthy benefits and these are provided
below:
i) Allows Optimized Procedures: One of the major as well as the most significant
benefit of this future warehouse management system would be that this particular system
would allow optimized procedures (Tiwari & Thakur, 2015). To make this new system to be
effective, it would be important to be quite versatile over input methodologies, radio
frequency identification devices, barcode tackling and also working collaboratively by
automating the equipment of the organization.
ii) Effective Labour Allocation: The next significant or vital advantage of the future
warehouse management system within the automotive parts organization would be that it
might allow an efficient allocation of the respective labours. Greig and Cox would not be

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focusing any issue related to work collaboration when they will be deploying the system.
Moreover, they would also be able to demonstrate the floor task in a logical manner.
iii) Boosting of Employee Morale: Another important benefit of the new system
would be that Greig and Cox will have the core capability of improving and boosting morale
of the employees by providing them with a relevant structure without any kind of issue
(Hertog et al., 2014). These staff will have clear ideas about work execution.
iv) Maintaining an Inventory Balance: It is yet another benefit of the new system,
which would help Greig and Cox to maintain balance of their inventories. Moreover, safety
stocks would also be preserved under every circumstance. Losing of stock would be avoided
completely.
v) Reduction in the Operational Expenses: Greig and Cox would also be able to
reduce the total operational expenses as they would be able to use space and labour
effectively. The operational expenses would not exceed at any cost.
vi) Improvised Relation between Supplier and Customer: The sixth vital benefit of
the future WMS within the automotive parts business would be that there would an
improvised relation between the suppliers as well as the customers (Lam et al., 2014). It
would result in less errors within the order accuracy or lead time in delivery, making the
customers satisfied with the services.

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