Warehouse Management

Major features include:

• Each ProCLASS warehouse (up to 99 warehouses per ProCLASS database) is divided into any number of warehouse sections, and each warehouse section is divided into any number of warehouse slots. Warehouse sections can have such attributes as being fixed or floating-slot, and you can specify the maximum number of slots in the warehouse section to be allocated to a single item.
• Warehouse slots can be identified as pick, over-head, and bulk (or overflow).
• The current item assigned to a slot as well as the past history of the slot can be viewed on-line or through various hard-copy reports.
• Letdown instructions (as well as labels to be applied to the letdown pallets) are generated by ProCLASS in real-time and a list of outstanding letdown instructions can be produced at any time.
• The need for regular stock taking can be eliminated in the floating-slot sections by reviewing and confirming the "emptied location list" on a regular basis.
• Fixed-slot warehouse sections can be inventoried on a rotating basis (e.g., on a daily or weekly basis) or in a more formal basis one or more times per year.
• Any number of user-defined stock adjustment reason codes can be set up in ProCLASS. Stock adjustments can be viewed by item and/or by reason code.
• After-the-fact corrections to received and on-hand quantities can be made simultaneously via special stock adjustment reason codes.
• Functions are provided to "book" inventory in ProCLASS such that only a certain customer or customer group can draw from the reserved inventory. Booked stock can also be "un-booked" to be made available to all customers.
• Customer returns can be placed in special slots instead of the normal pick slots for the returned items. Any subsequent orders for the returned items will draw from these special return slots before going back to the regular pick slots.
• An exception report can be generated to list all items whose assigned slots do not match their movement history. This report can be used to re-assign items to other slot types or warehouse sections which match the items' current movement activity.
• ProCLASS provides daily reports showing dated products that either have expired, or are close to expiry.

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