Warehouse Management Solutions

Businesses are under increasing pressure to reduce their overall supply chain costs, while simultaneously providing higher service levels. Efficient management of your warehouse is essential to ensuring your company meets its productivity goals. Additionally, new requirements for food traceability, RFID, and increasingly complex integration requirements make the management of corporate logistics steadily more complex.

To simplify these challenges, you need to employ technologies that provide supply chain optimization while reducing costs. Robocom provides positive solutions to these challenges with RIMS® and ROC Enterprise, leading edge suites of supply chain management applications. With Robocom’s supply chain management solutions, you can enhance warehouse, transportation, and inventory management by decreasing inventory levels, improving order fulfillment, reducing order cycle time, and improving profitability.

RIMS®

RIMS® (Robocom’s Inventory Management System) is a flexible, cost-effective, Warehouse Management System (WMS) that integrates with leading front-end business systems and provides supply chain visibility critical to success in today’s global marketplace.

RIMS operates in an open system environment and interfaces with your existing information systems infrastructure. Designed to maximize productivity and streamline warehouse operations, RIMS offers an easy and effective method of optimizing the flow of materials and goods in and out of your warehouse while ensuring high levels of accuracy in the distribution process.

RIMS is a user-friendly, menu-driven application designed to satisfy the requirements of virtually any warehouse operation, from simple paper-driven systems to completely wireless environments. As a browser-based system operating on a variety of platforms, RIMS is an easily maintained warehouse management application incorporating the latest technology. In addition, RIMS integrates with external material handling devices (carousels, conveyors, etc.) to provide maximum control over warehouse and inventory activities.

RIMS provides a rapid return on investment, immediate cost savings, and increased productivity and profitability.

RIMS Features

RIMS includes the following features:

• Management Control – Management control features include security, history and archiving, compliance labels, ABC tracking, and labor management.
• Inventory Management – Inventory management features include cycle and physical counts, automatic and manual replenishment, demand replenishment, quality assurance, reporting, and item rebranding.
• Inbound Order Processing – Inbound order processing features include receiving (purchase orders, returns, lot control, and so on) and putaway (directed putaway and manual override).
• Outbound Order Processing – Outbound order processing features include picking (batch/order/wave picking, multi-level bill of material, backorders, and so on) and packing/shipping (compliance labeling, bill of lading, hierarchical innerpacks/outerpacks, and so on).
• Radio Frequency (RF) Subsystem – RF features include bar code validation, real-time updates, and hardware independence.

Platforms

RIMS operates on the following platforms: Unix, Windows 2003, Linux, and Sun-OS.

Supported Interfaces

RIMS supports the following interfaces:

• ERP and Legacy Hosts
• Engineered Labor Standards (PLUS ELS)
• Transportation Management Systems (TMS)
• Shipping Systems
• Yard Management Systems (YMS)
• RFID Printers and Readers
• Radio Frequency (RF) devices
• Bar Code Scanners
• Conveyors
• Sortation Systems
• Label Applicators
• Automated Storage and Retrieval Systems (AS/RS)
• Carousels
• Automated Guided Vehicles (AGV)
• Voice Technology
• Pick-to-light
• Crystal Reports

ROC Enterprise

ROC Enterprise provides everything you need for supply chain optimization, from robust warehouse and inventory management to invoicing, accounting, customer service, internet services, EDI, and much more. ROC Enterprise is designed to provide all the supply chain solutions your company needs, including:

• Warehouse Management – Our best-of-breed WMS provides complete configurability for your facility and inventory. Definable options include paper, RF or voice, as well as functionality such as receiving, picking, and shipping. At the item level, date, lot, weight, length, size, serial number, and point of origin can all be tracked.
• Transportation Management – Our Transportation Management System (TMS) module provides the functionality to manage your own fleet, broker freight from other carriers, and track on-board shipments. Transportation Management also provides sophisticated rating, freight audit, and payment processing capabilities. The traffic management component manipulates customer orders to create optimal loads, pre-assign carriers, balance trailer weights, and review route and stop configurations.
• Business Intelligence – Our Business Intelligence (BI) module captures current and historical data into a data warehouse where it is archived, utilized for reporting and analysis, and accessed by occasional users.
• Enterprise Application Integration – Our Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) module allows you to communicate easily with customers, trading partners, and other internal systems, eliminating expensive VAN-to-EDI costs. EDI, XML, flat file, and SAP are among the currently supported interfaces.
• Event Management – Our dashboard allows you to maintain a constant view of key productivity indicators, such as labor utilization, order fulfillment, and inventory optimization.
• Labor Productivity Management – Maximize your warehouse and transportation productivity with our labor forecasting and management tools that are based on either engineered labor standards or historical averages.
• RFID – Our RFID solutions will help you comply with the RFID requirements that companies are issuing and gain significant internal benefits as well.

ROC Architecture

ROC Enterprise features leading edge architecture. All PC functions are browser-based, and screens were developed with J2EE. Our software can be accessed from any PC with a browser and can be run from a server with almost any operating system and database. Most of our customers use Microsoft’s Windows 2003 operating system or IBM's AIX Unix, with Microsoft SQL server or Oracle database.

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