AWS Case Study
About AWS
Absolute Warehouse Solutions (AWS) are a leading 3PL Warehousing provider in the West Yorkshire area, with multiple sites across Leeds and the surrounding area. They can fulfil customer needs on a pallet or singles bases.
Solutions Provided
Initially, the WMS system implemented at AWS, was a small business model with a single user access and all movement record on paper and transferred to the WMS management console.
Over the years as the business has expanded the system has developed to match the throughput and operational complexity of a large multi-site warehouse operation. Bringing multi-user access and mobile scanning for goods in, stock moves, picking, and loading along with customer bespoke online access to query their own stock and historical as well as raise their own picks reducing keying in errors and improving pick allocation accuracy.
Going from the original configuration has been expanded to:
- Multi-site Operation
- 10 user WMS management console
- 15 user handheld terminal WMS Mobile for real time updates
- 5 user truck mount WMS for real time updates
- 30 Customer Web Management Access
- Multi customer Bespoke EDI integrations to key customers
- Automatic Report Emailing
- Automatic Weekly costing calculations
- Goods in Traffic Booking System
As Jason Ward Warehouse Manager explains "It would be impossible to track and report on the massive throughput of this warehouse without the WITS Warehouse Management System".
Systems Working For Us
A sophisticated pick scheduling system handles all customer requests for shipments and produces picking information for transmission to both narrow aisle trucks and vehicle loading trucks. All Goods Out products are scanned both from aisle locations, in addition to being scanned onto the vehicle. This ensures total pallet tracking and eliminates incorrect pallet / incorrect load problems.
All customers have the ability to access current stock levels, together with Goods In / Goods Out transactions via the WITS web access and pick their own stock ensuring they get the exact pallets required. Customers can also request timed emails containing stock and status reports designed to their needs. The WITS system produces detailed invoicing on a per customer basis for storage, RHD, small part picking, container handling etc. Data capture terminals are used for perpetual inventory stocktaking with data download into the WITS system. Both on site and on-line system support is supplied from the WITS premises in Leeds.
Gary Wagstaff Managing Director of Absolute Warehouse Services, explains "We have used WITS Warehouse Systems for over twenty years and each time we have moved the operation to larger premises or operated over split sites the systems have expanded seamlessly to supply all our operational requirements".