Best Practices Plus Highly Adaptable Architecture: HighJump Warehouse Management System (WMS)

Optimizing the Container Packing Process in Your Warehouse

Develop efficient plans to build cartons, pallets, trailers and ocean containers

Many companies today face increasingly complicated processing requirements in the fulfillment and distribution of their products. For example, changes in order profiles are driving more full-case and split-case picking, and rules surrounding carton and pallet builds are more and more complex. With HighJump™ Container Advantage working as part of your HighJump warehouse management system (WMS), you can develop an efficient plan to build cartons, pallets, trailers and ocean containers as part of distribution processes. This solution improves efficiency by selecting the number and size of cartons needed to pack orders for shipment based on each item's dimensional cube, orientation restrictions, stacking factors, weight and compatibility with other items.

Save Money and Reduce Returns

In addition to saving time, packing materials and containers, HighJump Container Advantage reduces operating and transportation costs as well as product damage that leads to costly returns.

Benefits of Directed Container Packing

• Reduce packing and shipping costs
• Boost productivity
• Reduce shipping damage, and therefore returns
• Increase throughput
• Reduce worker injury

Enhancing Your Warehouse Management System (WMS) With Advanced Slotting Capabilities

Your customers expect faster and more frequent order fulfillment than ever before. In order to accomplish this and remain as efficient as possible, your fulfillment center needs to be re-configured frequently to meet changing customer demands. The proper slotting of your facility will aid you in meeting these challenges.

Warehouse slotting can increase productivity and maximize ROI

The HighJump™ Slotting Advantage solution empowers you to re-slot your warehouse or distribution center without work stoppages or the time-consuming effort to re-enter the new slotting plan into HighJump Warehouse Advantage. You are able to create and maintain an optimal warehouse layout and product placement strategy that reduces travel times and optimizes material handling and space efficiency.

With HighJump Slotting Advantage you can also perform detailed slotting analysis integrated with the HighJump warehouse management systems (WMS). Using an array of algorithms, HighJump Slotting Advantage analyzes product history, demand, lead time, velocity and special handling characteristics. This information is then used to calculate the most cost-efficient bin size and location for a given product based on the required service level within the available physical space. Through the use of advanced algorithms, HighJump slotting software can also recommend the most cost-effective material flow path and identify optimal inventory levels and reorder points for each product.

Benefits

• Facilitate fast response to changes occurring in your business
• Identify trends
• Evaluate historical slotting decisions

Accelerate Order Fulfillment With Voice-Enabled Distribution

Real-Time, Voice-Enabled Communication Between Distribution Center Workers and the Warehouse Management System

The HighJump Warehouse Management System (WMS) offers full integration with Vocollect’s Voice-Directed Distribution®, giving you real-time, voice-enabled communication between distribution center workers and the WMS. You’ll have up-to-the second inventory consumption updates as well as improvements in productivity and fulfillment accuracy. This is possible through a range of voice-enabled picking options configurable by warehouse, specific pick area or specific employee. Managers also have a variety of options for assigning picking methods to ensure the picking strategy meets the warehouse’s total shipment volume requirements.

Voice enablement significantly reduces training time for new employees, because it relies on easy-to-follow voice prompts and voice access to verbal help functions.

Video comparison: Voice vs. RF scanning

HighJump Offers a Better Approach to Voice-Enabled Picking Integration

Unlike competitive approaches that use middleware to integrate WMS and voice technology, HighJump Software provides a direct interface to Vocollect that enables you to have real-time control over your dynamic warehouse environments.

Benefits of Voice-Enabled Distribution:

• Integrate easily with HighJump Warehouse Advantage
• Improve throughput
• Reduce new employee training time
• Improve safety with hands-free and eyes-free picking
• Leverage configurable, voice-enabled picking options

Wave Planning Software Optimizes Order Fulfillment

Increase Warehouse Efficiency by Planning Truckloads or Pick Waves

HighJump’s wave planning software, HighJump™ Advanced Fulfillment Application, provides a user-friendly environment for truckload and wave planning that integrates seamlessly with the HighJump warehouse management systems (WMS). Leverage a user-configured view of available orders for planning truckloads or pick waves, including assignment of warehouse staging locations, dock doors and shipment drop sequences. Once loads or waves are planned, HighJump Advanced Fulfillment Application provides control over pick release staging and shipping, and manages last-minute changes with ease.

Benefits From Wave Planning Software:

• Improve facility throughput
• Improves pick efficiency
• Offers greater control of shipping options
• Improves planner productivity
• Streamlines overall workflow

Meet the Challenges of RFID Compliance; Incorporate RFID Warehouse Technology

Organizations everywhere have a variety of reasons for implementing RFID technology within their supply chains. Some need to meet the requirements of major retailers and the U.S. Department of Defense, while others seek to reorganize their logistics operations to realize operational performance gains.

While RFID will likely have a substantial impact on your supply chain in the years to come, adopting an incremental approach today will prove most effective as RFID technology requirements continue to evolve. To support this, HighJump Software enables the co-existence of bar codes and RFID within our solution platform. This empowers you to take maximum advantage of RFID technology today where it makes sense within your supply chain, as well as meet future compliance requirements as appropriate.

Benefits

• Leverage existing bar code architecture to support incremental adoption of RFID technology
• Increase inventory visibility
• Improve operational efficiency
• Strengthen security against product or asset theft