Auto-Parts Warehouse Management System Vision Document Report

This document presents a system vision for an auto-parts warehouse management system, addressing the challenges faced by an auto-parts warehouse. The report identifies problems with the current system, such as an inability to handle increasing order volumes and dynamic customer requests...Read More

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Table of Contents
1. Problem........................................................................................................................................2
2. Capabilities..................................................................................................................................3
3. Benefits........................................................................................................................................4
References........................................................................................................................................5

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1. Problem
The warehouse business owned by Jack Greig and Daniel Cox have been in their
operations for several years. They have also been in operations in one of the major city of
Australia. The warehouse system owned, performs major business operations such as procuring
auto parts, handling dynamic requests from customers and supplying them with their appropriate
quantities. However, in the recent times, it has been seen that current warehouse management
system is not be able to handle the excessive amount of requests that are faced by them.
The certain problems that are faced by the auto-parts business is that with the growing
form of business and their reach to the global market, they are facing severe problems in relation
with the different kind of dynamic procedures (Accorsi, Manzini & Maranesi, 2014). The current
warehouse management system that is used by the business is incapable of handling the dynamic
loads that are faced by the business. Each of the systems and processes that are performed within
the warehouse require a high amount of processing power and capabilities in order to bring in
efficiency within the business systems.
In order to mitigate such form of business problems, the business owners need to
implement a proper form of warehouse management system that would help them in processing
the requests received from customers (Richards, 2017). During peak times, the system is not able
to store the excess loads. Hence, this discussion would be mainly focused towards proposing an
approach that would be adopted and implemented towards the core processes in the warehouse
management system.

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2. Capabilities
A Warehouse Management System (WMS) is defined as a software application that helps
in controlling and managing the different operations that are mainly performed within the
warehouse. The current processes that are performed within the warehouse of the auto-parts
business are considered as highly significant. The owners of the company have a certain vision
of the business to include the basic processes that are mainly required to meet the needs of
customers (Hahn & Packowski, 2015). Hence, the inclusion of the new WMS would help in
integrating many functionalities that would be highly helpful.
The to-be proposed WMS would process different kind of functions such as the
management of the inventory, receiving of latest items from the retailers, preparing a list of the
items and storing the items at a proper location. On the other hand, the new WMS would also be
capable of picking up of orders placed by customers, processing them, management of load from
orders, documentation of the entire set of processes, presenting system alerts, packing those
orders and delivering them to the customers within the estimated time.
During the implementation of the new WMS, there would be a certain requirement of
installing a certain number of wireless communication devices that would be fitted at some
certain places of the warehouse. These communication devices would be configured with the
proposed WMS in order to enable a present and run the warehouse process in a smooth manner
(Bogue, 2016). Real-time operations would be supported with the help of this technology that
would help the customers to track their orders and thus the functioning of the distribution centre
would become proper as the needs of the business.

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3. Benefits
The warehouse management system that has been proposed and which would be
implemented within the auto-part business would be highly helpful for the business. In the recent
times, the business has faced tremendous problems in relation with their order, customer request,
queries and different kind of internal processes faced by the system.
The primary goal of the WMS is to reduce the inefficiencies that were present within the
previous system based on the handling and processing of large number of orders. The new WMS
that would be implemented would receive the orders that would be placed by the customers
(Atieh et al., 2016). The internal form of intelligent algorithms supported within the system,
would communicate with the wireless devices in order to view the level of stocks within the
inventory and update them to the customer. The WMS would also support the internal functions
within the warehouse such as managing the stock level of items, updating them to the
management and also providing system alerts to customers.
The proposed WMS would also support real-time operations that would help the
customers to keep a track of their orders in real-time scenarios. Thus, the new system would
prove to be beneficial for the proper working of managerial and warehouse functions while also
supporting and managing customer requests (Kembro, Danielsson & Smajli, 2017). The
extensive kind of supported functions would be helpful for improving the warehouse operations
and increase productivity within the business.

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References
Accorsi, R., Manzini, R., & Maranesi, F. (2014). A decision-support system for the design and
management of warehousing systems. Computers in Industry, 65(1), 175-186.
Atieh, A. M., Kaylani, H., Al-abdallat, Y., Qaderi, A., Ghoul, L., Jaradat, L., & Hdairis, I.
(2016). Performance improvement of inventory management system processes by an
automated warehouse management system. Procedia Cirp, 41, 568-572.
Bogue, R. (2016). Growth in e-commerce boosts innovation in the warehouse robot
market. Industrial Robot: An International Journal, 43(6), 583-587.
Hahn, G. J., & Packowski, J. (2015). A perspective on applications of in-memory analytics in
supply chain management. Decision Support Systems, 76, 45-52.
Kembro, J. H., Danielsson, V., & Smajli, G. (2017). Network video technology: Exploring an
innovative approach to improving warehouse operations. International Journal of
Physical Distribution & Logistics Management, 47(7), 623-645.
Richards, G. (2017). Warehouse management: a complete guide to improving efficiency and
minimizing costs in the modern warehouse. Kogan Page Publishers.