Warehouse manager uses tablet to control warehouse processes via  WMS system in high-bay warehouse

WMS add-on for unitop

Your warehouse logistics in the best possible hands.

Want to introduce more transparency and bring more control to your warehousing processes – directly from within your inventory management system? With the WMS add-on, you can expand your unitop Industry or unitop Trade business solution by adding a fully integrated warehouse management system. From goods inward to dispatch: your processes are managed digitally, supported by mobile data capture and fully integrated within unitop.

Benefits

Streamlined warehouse processes – with the WMS add-on for unitop

Our full-service solution, unitop, is based on Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central and contains many additional, sector-specific functions.  The WMS add-on is intended as an expansion of the unitop Trade or unitop Industry licence package and includes a whole host of benefits for you:

Seamlessly integrated within unitop

All warehouse processes are displayed directly in unitop and are closely interlinked with your inventory management. Interfaces, freestanding solutions and dual entry are now things of the past – your entries, stocks and transactions are now at your fingertips in all parts of the system.

Real-time mobile data capture

Goods inward, commissioning, stock transfer or stocktaking: all movements can be performed using mobile data capture. Confirmation is provided in real time. This means that process checks and entries take place immediately.

Process stability & full traceability

Your warehouse processes are underpinned and supported by guided movements, automatic verification and seamless record-keeping, even in the cases of complex structures such as centralised warehouses, cross-docking or chaotic storage. That way, you can increase process reliability, while maintaining an overview at all times.

Integrated value added services

Relabelling, packing or packaging can be displayed in a structured way by means of dialogues and documents. All steps are fully documented in the system with minimal manual effort required.

Intuitive to operate & quick to get started

Easy-to-follow user interfaces and clearly guided processes make for rapid onboarding. Your employees also benefit from visual support and direct system feedback.

Flexible and expandable

If needed, the integrated system can be expanded in a targeted way – whether you want to process shipping tasks, to connect courier, express, and parcel service providers and freight carriers or to integrate an ATLAS customs solution, for example. Additional business-specific unitop add-ons can be incorporated if needed. That way, you can configure your warehouse processes efficiently and in a scalable way in the long term.

Warehouse worker scans parcel with barcode scanner for recording in the warehouse management system

Functions

The WMS add-on in practice: Areas of application

Whether it is used for goods inward, commissioning or dispatch, with our add-on, you can cover all of the key warehouse management processes. In the section below, we outline some typical use cases from the trade and industry sectors:

Record goods inward immediately using mobile data capture, print labels and streamline the warehousing process using a warehouse position determination system that is needs-based. Quality assurance processes (QA) can also be used. Alternatively, items can also be immediately assigned to dispatch, during cross-docking processes, for example.

Ensure that picking is performed efficiently – whether single-order picking, a one-pick procedure or multi-order picking is involved. The software will help you optimise movements and reduce errors by reporting errors in real time whenever incorrect data are entered on the mobile data capture device. Even the digital packing template that subdivides the items into packing items and the order status with delivery suggestions are directly integrated.

Delivery notes, dispatch paperwork, labels and invoices can be generated automatically via unitop. Courier, express, and parcel service providers and freight carriers can also be directly linked to the system.

By following dialogue prompts, you can display additional, customer-specific services (such as labelling or packing) in the warehousing process and directly associate them with sales or dispatch documentation.

Manage chaotic or fixed warehouse positions, warehouse units, use-by dates and blocking reasons. The solution supports annual stocktaking, spot checks and ongoing checks (perpetual stocktaking). As part of the commissioning of mobile data capture, you can also perform zero-crossing inventories.

Employee checks stock levels using WMS and barcode scanner in high-bay warehouse

Detailed information about functions for your warehouse processes

The WMS add-on not only assists you with goods inward, commissioning and dispatch, but also with many other process-related tasks that form an indispensable part of a comprehensive warehouse logistics system:

  • Stock transfer and reclassification with movement control
  • Batch number and serial number tracking
  • Availability notifications and delivery proposals
  • Mobile data capture and control system role centre
  • ATLAS customs declaration

An in-depth technical solution for complex warehousing requirements

Even if your requirements are more complex, you can benefit from smart functions that are integrated within the add-on and can be flexibly combined with one another.

  • Fixed-position replenishment that enables the automatic restocking of specified positions in the warehouse
  • Combinable processes for tasks such as goods inward, commissioning and packing orders
  • Access to item information and warehouse position information via mobile devices
  • Execution of value-added services (VAS) processes in the mobile data capture dialogues during commissioning and in the PC packing dialogue
  • Document linking of active and archived VAS data for full traceability

Contact

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Already using unitop or looking for a comprehensive, ERP-orientated solution for your warehouse logistics? We will be happy to show you how the WMS add-on will enable you to display your warehouse processes directly in unitop and control them from a central point.