The LCC WMS manages the six key activities of warehousing

Receive
Get stock into your warehouse fast by confirming the receipt as you check the goods.

• Print item labels when stock has no barcode
• Receive by Inbound order or Inbound Delivery (Advance Shipping Notice)
• Ad Hoc receiving of stock without an inbound document
• Receive stock to Licence Plate No. (LPN) for ease of movement and tracking

Move

• Directed Putaway of stock lets you control where the stock is stored in your warehouse; no more searching for empty slots.
• Staff can over ride the suggested location when they need to for cross docking and special orders.
• Move many items at once with one scan of the LPN
  Control putaway by using item dimensions and weight or use simple putaway strategies
• Optimise your warehouse and create moves to direct staff to relocate stock to more efficient locations when re-slotting
  Store by LPN for non-barcoded stock and scan the LPN for moves and picking

Replenish

• Set up fixed pick locations for fast moving products to reduce travel distance and handling during picking
• System directed replenishment moves keep your pick locations full.

Pick

• Pick many orders in each pass through the warehouse to reduce travel distance and time to pick each order
• Multi-Order picking picks several orders at once and directs the sort to each order carton or tub
• Multi-Batch picking picks many orders at once and directs the sorting to sub-batches in tubs.
• Each tub is sorted to individual order at the packing bench
• Pick to label allows fast and efficient case picking of many small orders for case quantities.
• Single order picking is for large orders

Ship

• Connect with your freight system to create consignments and print shipping labels on demand during the packing process.

Count

• Resolve stock discrepancies discovered during picking using system generated cycle counts.
• Keep you inventory clean with cyclic stocktakes to count small sections of your warehouse every day
• Manage full warehouse stocktakes with ease.

Logistics Cloud Co. are proud implementation partners for Cin7. Cin 7 is a Cloud Inventory management system that extends the functionality of small business accounting systems to better assist with the financial administration of the business. Cin7 has a very strong product for small and medium businesses and combined with Xero or Quickbooks, Cin7 provides mid-market ERP functionality for a much lower price.

The Cin in Cin7 stands for “Connected Inventory” and Cin7 has over 550 integrations with other systems and businesses. Their EDI connections to major retailers are a fraction of the price of the traditional EDI networks and the savings can pay for the system. Cin7 provides paper receiving and sales fulfillment functions and also has a simple ‘WMS’ app that allows you to confirm transactions with a mobile phone, scanner or tablet.

Inventory management systems are primarily designed to track dollars not boxes and the lack of sophisticated mobile workflows for receiving, put-away and picking mean that support for warehouse processes is quite limited.

Connect Cin7 with the LCC WMS for a very powerful financial and logistics operations system for your business.

Cin7 has 3 core functions:

1. Stock balance tracking and costing.

• Product database for item management and categorisation
• Track your stock balances at multiple sites such as retail stores and warehouses and 3PLs
• Show stock balances on your websites and marketplace channels
• Cost your inventory more accurately with landed cost calculations and FIFO receipt lot cost methods
• Simple bin location management helps with tracking stock within a site.
• Use Production Job processing to manufacture finished goods from a Bill of Materials with components and labour inputs
• Create virtual Bundle Products with a Bill of Materials list of other products that you pick on demand. See virtual inventory of these products so you know when you are running low.

2 . Purchase order management

• Keep accurate records of purchases and creditors
• Cost inventory purchases by item
• Calculate stock requirements more accurately by including open purchase order quantities and due dates

3. Sales order management

• Keep accurate records of sales and debtors.
• Price items according to sales channel.
• Input sales orders from multiple channels including manual order entry and file uploads,
  • built in B2B webstore,
  • connected B2C webstores,
  • marketplaces (drop shipping fulfillment) and
  • EDI orders from big retailers.
• Use the built in POS system to sell in retail branches
• Send sales orders to 3PLs for fulfillment
• Connect with freight systems for shipping
• Track profitability

You haven’t actually made a sale until you have delivered your goods to your customer. This means delivering it yourself or handing it over to a carrier to deliver it for you. Carriers want you to use their system, but unless you use just one carrier, this means you end up keying your consignments into different systems for different carriers. The carriers give you their system for free because this way you do their data entry for them. It also means you tend to get locked into using them. Far better to use a single multi-carrier system for all of your carriers. This means your staff only need to learn one system and you also have visibility of all of your freight movements and costs in one system. This is great, but you are still doing manual data entry.

Far better to connect your freight system to your shipping system to eliminate the data entry and create consignments directly from your order data. In the eCommerce world, freight systems can connect directly with your webstore and help manage the order fulfillment process and update your webstore with order confirmations and shipping information when done. Freight systems also connect with Cloud inventory management systems like Cin7 through a freely available API connection, and on premises ERP systems (usually via a custom integration).

When you move to the Logistics Cloud Co. Warehouse Management System the freight system connects directly to the WMS in a tight integration to print shipping labels on demand as you pack each order. This is not only more efficient it reduces errors from putting the wrong shipping label on the wrong box; which happens when printing batches of shipping labels and searching your pile of outbound freight to find which label belongs to which box (or mixing up labels and packing slips if you are using your freight system for fulfillment).

But what if you do your own deliveries? One way of handling this is to set yourself up as a generic carrier in your freight system and print shipping labels. The limitation of this is that your customers now expect to get tracking information and you are not a carrier and not set up to do this. The answer to this is to use a transport management system like the carriers do, but until recently this was an expensive and complicated option that was just too hard for businesses with small fleets to bother with. Now there are a growing number of options for small fleet operators to provide carrier like delivery management capabilities with GPS vehicle tracking and parcel tracking all via the magic of an app on your driver’s smartphone.

Helping you select and integrate the right freight and transport systems is another way we help you achieve streamlined logistics management processes in your business.