Celerant Command Retail: Warehouse Management System

Celerant Command Retail provides a full-featured warehouse management system. Functionality is available for everything from receiving and put-away, to picking, packing and shipping.

Receiving

The receiving process allows for receiving both solid-packs (packed individually by color and size) and assorted pre-packs. Pre-receiving is an option to expedite the receiving process. With pre-receiving, you can receive in the retail system before the vendor’s shipment even hits the dock. Then, once the shipment arrives, simply validate that the receiving is complete, make any necessary adjustments to the pre-receiving and then commit that pre-receiving (updating inventory and the purchase order) with the click of a button. You can take the receiving process to the next level with Command’s use of Advanced Shipment Notice (ASN). With ASNs, Command will automatically download the vendor’s electronic shipment notices. Then, when the shipment arrives at the warehouse, simply scan the vendor’s label on each carton to receive the packed merchandise. Command also provides for quality control checks when receiving via ASN.

Each receiving can either be completely put-away, a full cross-dock or a partial cross-dock. An allocator can decide what to do with the receiving after it has arrived, or can pre-configure the purchase order to automatically generate the desired allocation upon receiving. Celerant’s retail software provides for either system-directed put-away or user-defined put-away. System-directed put-away will determine the best available location in the warehouse for each newly-received carton. The system generates a useful put-away label for tracking the carton throughout the warehouse. If you prefer to manually decide to put the cartons into a particular location, just scan the location followed by the cartons, with a wireless scanner, and they are immediately located in that warehouse location in the system. And regardless of the put-away method you employ, it is always possible to easily transfer cartons from one location to another.

Picking

Picking from the shelves to fulfill allocations could not be simpler. Based upon the allocation and the available merchandise in the warehouse, the retail system generates pick sheets telling the user how much of each item to pick from each location.

You can also batch allocations into waves to avoid duplicate passes through the warehouse when picking. In addition, the system will automatically generate transfers if partial cartons from reserve/back-stock are needed to fulfill the allocation.

Use a wireless scanner to verify each pick and each transfer as these actions are performed.

Pack-to-Store

Celerant Command Retail’s powerful Pack-to-Store function provides a highly-efficient mechanism for packing the merchandise that is being shipped to the stores. The user selects the allocation or wave that is being picked, the store that is currently being packed and scans the UPC/barcode on each article before packing it. When the case is full, just click a button (or scan a special barcode) and a shipping label/packing list is printed for that case. If using UPS integration, a UPS shipping label will also be printed. Close up that case and then just start packing the next one, whether it is for that same store or a different store. The Pack-to-Store process can be performed from a desktop, laptop or on a wireless scanner. To expedite the packing process, you can have multiple employees using the Pack-to-Store function to pack the same allocation at one time. And once packing is complete, a supervisor is provided a simple report showing any discrepancy between the original allocation and what was packed. With the click of a button, the supervisor can automatically adjust the final allocation so it ties to the cases that were actually packed.

Shipping

When a shipment is ready to go out the door and start its trip to the store(s), a user can scan each case being loaded to a particular truck to move that case or carton to the manifest.

You can designate the delivery route number to which each of your stores belongs. This allows you to segregate shipments based upon specific truck routes. This also prevents the user from adding a case to a particular manifest, if the destination store for that case does not belong to the route for that manifest.