An Ounce of Prevention – 5 Ways a Warehouse Management System Can Help You Avoid Bad Business Outcomes
Increased speed and accuracy of fulfillment is a tangible benefit of a Sage Warehouse Management System (WMS) that allows for a near immediate return on your investment. Most businesses see cost-saving productivity increases right off the bat when automating their warehouse. But there are numerous other, less tangible ways that a Warehouse Management System protects […]
Highlighted Feature Video: Container Receipt Management
If you have items in transit to you – perhaps items are stuck on the water – and you’ve taken ownership of the inventory for accounting purposes but don’t want the items reflected in inventory as available for sales, use Container Receipt Management. How it works: In Sage, create a Receipt of Goods for the […]
Ship All & InstaShip: Highlighted Feature Video
If you’ve completely staged an order and all items and quantities have been picked, you may want to ship the entire order without scanning each individual line/item. Ship All and InstaShip are two similar features that let you do just that without the need to rescan the entire order at checking and packing. How it […]
Highlighted Feature Video: Pick to Pallet
Pick to Pallet offers a streamlined method to stage orders by pallet and then quickly, accurately, and efficiently ship the pallets. Items are instantly validated against the Sage sales order data providing accuracy in item picking from the item itself to the quantity and lot/serial data, where applicable. How it works: During the picking process, […]
Highlighted Feature Video: Wave Picking
Many ScanForce users can see tremendous gains in efficiency by using Wave Picking, which allows you to group Sales Order together so you can pick more than one at a time. This can reduce unnecessary trips back and forth across the warehouse, leading to faster order fulfillment. How it works Option 1: Create the wave […]
Highlighted Feature Video: Sales Order Picking
When you need to “stage” items for shipping, but aren’t ready to ship and invoice them, Sales Order Picking is the answer. Watch this first if you missed our previous featured video: ScanForce Directed Picking (~3 minutes) How it works: ScanForce customers with WMS Advanced or Premium can access a sales order from Sage in real […]
Highlighted Feature Video: Directed Picking
Are your orders being picked in the most efficient order, or do your warehouse team find themselves criss-crossing and doubling back as they follow the order of a packing slip? All those extra steps can add up over time. ScanForce Directed Picking lets you increase productivity by providing the user with a “roadmap” for each […]
Highlighted Feature Video: Transfer Request Management
Inventory Transfers are simple and to the point. Move an item from A to B…easy! However, that often isn’t the entire story. How does the warehouse team know which items to move? Who needs them? Did the correct items actually get moved? The right quantities? Enter the ScanForce enhancement for Transfer Request Management. How it […]
Highlighted Feature Video: Alias Unit of Measure
Tracking the same item with multiple units of measurement can be confusing, inaccurate and overall difficult to manage. ScanForce solves this problem with Alias Unit of Measure. Simply scan a barcode, and ScanForce knows the item, unit of measure and the multiplier. For example: Item 1234, Case Pack, 12 eaches per Case Pack. How it […]