Modern Materials Handling Looks at Qc Software

Modern Materials Handling Looks at Qc Software

Customer requirement: Value-added services are addressed

in the July issue of Modern Materials Handling.

According to Bob Trebilcock, Editor at Large, for

companies selling directly to consumers, the ability to

personalize products before shipment is a

differentiator. Take a company in the direct-selling

industry whose products are sold by consultants to

consumers in their homes. “Consultants not only need all

the items they have ordered, but they need an order

sheet for each of the consultant's customers, says Jerry

List, vice president of QC Software

(www.qcsoftware.com). What's more, List adds, each order

may require additional documentation, like certificates

of authenticity or warranties. “A lot of that

personalization happens at the pack out station,” says

List.



The solution: A warehouse control system. One of QC

Software's direct-selling customers created two packing

lines: One for small orders that can be quickly packed

out without creating bottlenecks and another for larger

orders requiring additional documentation. “In this

case, orders come down to the warehouse control system,”

List says. “It knows from the WMS where inventory is

located, and dynamically determines the best picks to

balance the workload on the line in real-time.”



Once items have been picked to cartons, the WCS sorts

them to a packing station. There, a bar code label on

the carton is automatically scanned, which generates a

list of value-added items for the operator to add to the

carton. “Often, those items may be in a pick-to-light

area, which directs the picking process,” List adds.

Once the documentation has been added to the carton,

it's sealed and sorted to the shipping area, where

compliant labeling and any shipping labels are applied.





A company that could benefit from a WCS tends to have

the following characteristics:



In excess of $50 million in sales

Warehouse of 100,000 sq. ft. or greater

Conveyor system with multiple sortation points

Multiple "islands" of material handling equipment

More than an average of three stock-keeping units (SKUs)

per order

Greater than 1,000 orders per day



QC Software is the leading provider of Tier 1 warehouse

control systems to the warehousing and distribution

industries. Since 1996, QC Software, utilizing state

of the art technology combined with extensive research,

development, and rigorous testing, has developed the QC

Enterprise suite of products. Designed to be modular in

nature, easily configurable, and platform independent,

this highly scalable solution satisfies the needs of any

size warehouse.





QC Software, Inc.

www.qcsoftware.com

Jerry List

JerryList@qcsoftware.com

(513) 469-1424


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