Saturday, April 30, 2016

WMS Terms and Definitions

WMS Terms for beginners

WMS terminology you may refer to the WMS Implementation and User guides, but here i am giving short definition for quick understanding..

PUT AWAY
  • Put away is the destination of the goods to be moved 
  • Rules are defined to handle how to manage the goods in regard of the destination - locator or locators


KITTING/DE-KITTING
  • Kitting/de-kitting is usually an process done within non-standard WIP jobs to assemble/disassemble PTO Kits


DOCKING
  • Docking is to group goods ready to be shipped on a location, and cross docking is to transfer this grouping to another departure location



CARTONIZATION
  • .Cartonization is the way to pack the goods together into containers (cartons or pallets) and consolidation is to group multiple items (already cartonized) on LPNs to be moved together.

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