Configure and extend Oracle

WMS to meet requirements of a

Distribution Centric Warehouse

Vishal Choudhari
Agenda

• About HCL
• Introduction to WMS
• Inbound Material Flow
• Outbound Material Flow
 CORPORATE OVERVIEW

Rapidly diversifying geo-mix Derisked across 500 Service Offerings

customers Enterprise Consulting

APAC Top 10 42.3%

15.4% of revenues
ERP,CRM,Portals, Content
Management, Testing,
Domain Specific Packages

Product Engineering

Application Development

Europe US revenues Infrastructure Management

25.2% 59.4% Top 5 32.2%
of revenues
(66 Fortune 500 clients) BPO

Insurance Media and Publishing Aero-space Semi-Conductors Automotive Retail & CPG Banking & Finance Life Sciences

AS Watson Stores…….Federated Stores….

Safeway…….Coles Myer….Shoppers Stop...
Jones Apparel Group…….Office Depot……
 Business Areas Technologies & Capabilities
Web Technologies COE, Client/Server Technologies COE,
Application Development
AS400 COE, & Mainframe COE

Enterprise Content Mgmt.

ERP / SCM/ CRM

Retail Supply Chain

EAI

Ecommerce/
Enterprise Collaboration

Application Testing/SQA

Business Intelligence & Data

Warehouse
Introduction to WMS
Interaction with other modules
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Purchasing
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Architecture
Mobile
Applications
Server
Application and
Database Servers
Mobile Handheld
Terminal

Telnet
Access

Oracle
Applications Forms 3rd Party Printing
Applet Viewer
Server Software
Access from
Browser
Inbound Logistics
Inbound material flow in warehouse

Replenish BULK / PALLET AREA

Replenish Pick Faces
FLOOR STORAGE
CASE AREA
from Bulk
RACK STORAGE

Put away
Put away rules
Custom Capacity
Function
Inspect / Pack
Outbound Staging Inbound Staging
/Receive Product
Consolidate
Express Receipt using
Outbound Docks LPN Inbound Docks
Receiving Product

• ASN from supplier can contain pallet and carton level packing
information
• Express receipt can receive complete pallet with all serial and
lot number information with a single scan. Express receiving
can be RFID enabled.
• Advanced Task framework can direct movement of material in
receiving area
 ASN can contain Packing Information
Translated Advanced
ASN# / Shipment Number Shipment Notice Flat File

Lot
Item Numbers
Number Pallet
Numbers
Put-away

• Configurable rules determines put-away locator

• Full Pallets to Bulk storage area
• Cases to Rack storage area
• ‘A’ products to front of warehouse, ‘C’ products to back
• Capacity Function can be extended to meet business
rules
• Capacity by Quantity / Weight / Volume
• What locators will product fit in
• Bulk capacity specified in Pallet Floor spaces
• Item dependent Pallet stackability
Express Receipt and Put away screens

ASN Number

Pallet Numbers

System suggested
put away locations
Express Receiving with RFID Tags
• Load of Pallet & Cartons with RFID tags on each
• Drive Load through RFID reader in receiving dock
• System access ASN to validate receipt
• Trigger response – Green Light or Buzzer to confirm
success of failure
Cross docking

• Release 11.5.10 offers only Opportunistic Cross

Docking.
• From Inbound Stage To Outbound Stage for backordered
sales orders
• From Manufacturing Job To Outbound Stage for
backordered sales order
• From Inbound stage To manufacturing job
• Planned Cross docking is expected in Release 12.
Yard Management
Outbound Logistics
 Outbound material flow in warehouse

Pick Cases
BULK / PALLET AREA
Picking rules
CASE AREA FLOOR STORAGE
Cartonization Pick Full Pallets
RACK STORAGE
Extension to build Pick by LPN
pallet

Ship Confirm
Load to Dock
Ship Dock Door Inspect / Pack
Outbound Staging Consolidate & Pack Inbound Staging
/ Consolidate
Consolidation Lanes
Outbound Docks Move to Staging LaneInbound Docks
Picking

• Configurable Picking rule determines pick-from and

drop-to stock locator
• Full pallet picks from Bulk
• Less than full pallet picks come from Case
• Picking is in FIFO
• Picking Methodology determines task assignment
• Bulk Picking
• Pick by Zone
• Pick by Label
A Picking Rule
Picking Task completed on mobile
server

Scan Barcode to
confirm Locator

Scan Barcode to
confirm Item

Drop parts to a
consolidation
location
 Warehouse Control Board

Control Board displays Accept Next Task on

task assignment selected mobile server assigns
by Rules next picking task to user
 Pallet Building through Cartonization

LPN # 1000000858
BOX TYPE 01827

LPN#
Pick Release 10000000863
LPN # 100000858
BOX TYPE 01827
LPN # 1000000858
BOX TYPE 01827
BOX TYPE 01827

Pick release allocates product, then fires packing algorithm

• Each full pallet pick gets one LPN label.
• Loose carton picks are assigned to pallets based on carton dimension
and the required pallet dimension.
• Algorithm designed to create least number of mixed pallets while
maintaining customer specific rules
 Pallet Building through Cartonization

LPN # 1000000858
BOX TYPE 01827

LPN#
Pick Release 10000000863
LPN # 100000858
BOX TYPE 01827
LPN # 1000000858
BOX TYPE 01827
BOX TYPE 01827

For Carton picks

• Picker scans Label
• WMS displays stock locator where first
carton on pallet should be picked from
• After that, WMS assigns tasks to picker
one at a time until all cartons on pallet
have been loaded
 Pallet Building through Cartonization

LPN # 1000000858
BOX TYPE 01827

LPN#
Pick Release 10000000863
LPN # 100000858
BOX TYPE 01827
LPN # 1000000858
BOX TYPE 01827

For Full Pallet Picks

BOX TYPE 01827

• Picker scans Label

• WMS displays Stock Locator
from which pallet should be
picked
• Picker scans LPN on full pallet
 Pallet Building through Cartonization

LPN # 1000000858
BOX TYPE 01827

LPN#
Pick Release 10000000863
LPN # 100000858
BOX TYPE 01827
LPN # 1000000858
BOX TYPE 01827
BOX TYPE 01827

Pallets are wrapped and

dropped to staging lane
Pallet Building through Cartonization

• Large consolidation area not required

• Build pallets while you pick
• Limited investment in sorting equipment
• Comply with retailer mandates for Pallet height
• Generate Carton Level LPNs
WMS support for RFID compliance

• Ability to tie LPN labels with EPC tags

• Built-in and customizable EPC generation routines
Associating LPN labels with EPC tags

• EPC Generation rule

associated with LPN
label type
• Label type associated
with Business Flow
Automating Outbound Shipping

• RFID tags applied at Manufacturing or Pallet Building

Stage
• For Assemble to Order environments, Direct Shipping
can be used to bypass the pick-release, pick-confirm
process.
Conclusion

What works well

• Highly configurable Rules Engine for Directed Picking
and Put-away
What can be extended
• Labeling elements
• Capacity Function for put away rules
• Pallet Building
• Standard Pack Size
What’s missing
• Planned Cross-docking
Q&A