Radio Beacon

Do you need to:

• Increase your supply chain visibility?
• Streamline your warehouse processes?
• Improve your customer service?

RADIO BEACON warehouse management software can help you do all this and more while integrating your warehouse into the rest of the organization.

Increase your supply chain visibility.

By integrating with the leading accounting packages, warehouse automation equipment and shipping systems, you connect your warehouse to the rest of your supply chain. The seamless transfer of information between your systems means more efficient invoicing, order tracking, purchasing and forecasting for your distribution operation.

Streamline your warehouse processes.

By using the latest in radio frequency (RF), RFID and barcode technology to automate your warehouse processes, you can find, pick and pack inventory in the most efficient manner possible. RADIO BEACON is so effective that customers boast an order accuracy rate of over 99.99% – which means you will be shipping the right items, in the right cartons, to the right customers on time, every time.

Improve your customer service.

By giving your customer service staff, sales team, and even your customers a window into the warehouse using web-based technology, you allow them to track and trace the status of inventory and orders from any computer with an Internet connection and a password – resulting in fewer customer calls and better managed sales expectations.

Accounting Integration

• Extended reporting functionality
• Seamless transfer of information
• Elimination of duplicate data entry
• Protection for new versions

Receiving

• Receive multiple purchase orders simultaneously
• Share the receipt of one PO among several receivers
• Receive by PO, by product, or without PO
• Simplify container tracking and receiving

Putaway

• Put products away to bins in one step
• Access slotting recommendations
• Quarantine hazardous materials
• Store products in unique or multiple locations

Inventory Control

• Store products in unique or multiple pack sizes
• Rotate stock by both FIFO and LIFO
• Pick or track product by lot and serial number
• Track and report on dated product

Picking and Packing

• Gain process efficiency with over 2 dozen pick styles
• Control carousels and conveyors
• Replenish and pick concurrently
• Pick directly to final shipping cartons

Shipping

• Produce packing slips, carton content labels, and N/M labels on demand
• Generate customer and courier compliance labels and ASNs
• Automatically generate shipping and dangerous goods documents
• Integrate with several third-party transportation management systems

Accuracy

• Validate processes in real time with wireless and barcode technology
• Minimize handling steps
• Eliminate redundant data entry
• Eliminate transcription errors
• Control stock movement and replenishment

Efficiency

• Create a paperless warehouse
• Maintain a perpetual, real-time inventory count
• Receive and pick multiple orders simultaneously
• Optimize warehouse processes
• Forecast customer demand
• Maximize space with inventory visibility

Customer Service

• Ship the right goods, on time, every time
• Improve customer satisfaction
• Generate compliance labels
• Create custom reports and packing slips based on specific client needs
• Compile ASN-required data
• Check the status of orders in real time
• Open and monitor customer issues

Modules

Module Descriptions

Packing Station - This application consists of a fixed position PC, often with a tether scanner, which is used for non RF picking and packing. It gives users the ability to create carton level ASNs, it supports wave-batch collection in the warehouse, repacking to multiple orders in addition to many other features.

RF Picking - This core module supports multiple styles of RF picking, picking stations, split pack-sizes, batch-pick and repack, shipment labels, and warehouse packing slips. Pick bins are replenished using Hot Replenishment, which is the process of requesting that inventory be replenished to pick bins to meet current sales order requirements.

RF Receiving - This core module supports paperless check-in, product and carton labeling. It also supports non-PO receiving, for warehouses that allow receipt of products into the warehouse that do not appear on a purchase order.

RF Locator - This core module supports bin labeling, real-time multi-bin stock locator, paperless adjustments, and real-time cycle counting.

UPS Shipping - Full two way integration to a high-performance Multi-Carrier Shipping system, with UPS shipping enabled. This is easily upgraded to Multi-Carrier Shipping.

Multi-Carrier Shipping - Rate shopping, pre-release verification, and pre-rating are provided through an integrated Multi-Carrier Shipping System.

Order Management- Allows you to plan your warehouse activities, allocate stock to specific customers according to your corporate policies, and manage your fill rate and backorders.

Multi-Zone - A zone is an area within a physical location where inventory is stored or different activities are performed. A zone serves to organize stock and warehouse staff workloads. The Multi Zone module allows you define up to 26 zones. This module enables zone picking, pick and pass picking, multi-zone simultaneous and sequential picking, and replenishment by zone.

EOL & Shipping - This module provides Bills of Lading and lets you configure end of line (EOL) settings. EOL is a set of automatic processes that are to be executed once a sales order is completed. These processes include packing slips, carton content labels, communication with integrated shipping systems, and other functions.

Lots/Serial/Expiry - This functionality allows attributes to be assigned to a product. An attribute is characteristic of a product that differentiates it from other products of the same type, such as lot number, serial number, expiry date, color, size, and so on. The attribute number appears in a field after the main product number, separated by a character delimiter such as a slash (/). This module tracks attributes through the warehouse and provides advanced allocation and inventory controls for attributes.

Advanced Replenishment - This module supports Advanced Replenishment, which is the process of requesting that inventory be replenished from overstock bins to pick bins before the products are actually required to fill sales orders. Warehouses are configured to use of one two types of advance replenishment: min/max, or days on hand. Min/ max replenishment is based on a predefined minimum quantity of product that must be in pick bins. Days on hand replenishment is based on a defined minimum number of days that the product must be available in pick bins. When a dispatcher runs the Advanced Replenishment function in Web Dispatch, the system issues replenishment requests for any bins that are found to be below this minimum.

Kitting - A kit is a unique product composed of a number of other products, sold as a single unit. The kitting functionality enables the collecting and assembling of individual products to create a new, saleable product unit.

Putaway/Slotting/Cube/Weight - This module enables directed putaway, which allows a putaway driver to search for an appropriate bin to which to move a product during Receiving, Fill Bins, and Direct Move functions. Suggestions provided to the user are based on empty bins, or current bin locations. The module also allows slotting reports and cube and weight measurement to improve slotting and cube utilization.

Remote Monitoring - Remote monitoring is a method of monitoring your warehouse network using your SNMP-enabled switches, to keep your network and hardware running error free and at top performance. Using a secure VPN, our remote monitoring partner, Adeste, connects to your network, and by using just two ports (Ping and SNMP), confirms that all devices are performing as expected.. If any irregularities are discovered (including possible intruders), your IT staff are notified instantly by email.

Web Dispatch - This is the web-based user interface for RADIO BEACON WMS, accessed with Internet Explorer from any client PC. The Web Dispatch core module provides reporting capabilities to monitor daily warehouse operations in real time, and to generate historical reports. Web Dispatch also displays sales, work and purchase orders in the warehouse. To allow warehouse managers to control order processing in the warehouse via Web Dispatch, you should purchase the Order Management module.

Container Receiving - This module enables the process of receiving products into the warehouse against the inbound manifest rather that individual purchase orders. This simplifies check-in, improves accuracy, and speeds your operations.

Multi-Location/Site Transfer - The Multi-Location/ Site Transfer module allows a single RADIO BEACON WMS installation to manage multiple locations, controls visibility between locations, and provides tools for efficiently transferring stock between locations.

RMAs - This module enables Returned Materials Authorizations (RMAs), which allows customers to return products to the warehouse. It automatically generates purchase order for the returned goods, with the appropriate RMA codes.

Packaging - The packaging functionality supports warehouse with substantial repackaging operations. It helps prioritize and manage the repackaging lines.

Carousels/Conveyors - This module supports various brands of horizontal carousels and vertical lift modules (VLM), plus provides support for conveyor automation.

Click Billing - Allows third-party logistics (3PL) providers to bill their customers based on activity. It also provides tools to determine and model the costs of warehouse activities.

Multi-Company/3PL - This functionality supports distribution centers that service multiple companies or are third-party logistic (3PL) providers, and multi-company warehouses. 3PLs are specialized ‘outsource’ warehouse operators.

Web Order Entry - This module enables purchase orders to be entered into RADIO BEACON WMS through Web Dispatch. Web order entry is used by warehouses that do not have a host system, by third-party logistics (3PL) providers that do not use a single host system, or to provide a web order-entry portal suitable for B2B sales.

Advanced Web Order Entry - A complete B2B solution, which integrates a web-based interface for customer ordering with your RADIO BEACON WMS. A great tool to improve your customer relationship management by providing:

• automatic emails to confirm receipt of order and upon shipment with tracking information;
• allowing customers to enter their own PO numbers;
• allowing customers to see current order status in real time, as well as ordering history.

Demand Forecasting -This module activates the future demand forecasting component of RADIO BEACON’s demand management system. By analyzing past sales records and using basic replenishment and safety stock calculations, RADIO BEACON automatically generates monthly forecasts of the products and quantities that are expected to be ordered in the next forecast period.