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Copyright ©
2008
NETcellent System Inc
4030 Valley Blvd. Suite 100
Walnut, CA 91789-0931
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Elliott's
Warehouse Management Features
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Warehouse Management is essential in most distribution and manufacturing
businesses. Maintaining your warehouse will effectively increase
operation efficiency and accuracy.
Elliott Business Software offers powerful
warehouse management functions to help your company achieve these
goals. Elliott's Warehouse Management System is a powerful solution
that will help automate your inventory handling process. Also, it
is key to your order fulfillment process. Elliott offers various
barcode printing and scanning solutions, including real time inventory
management through a wireless Tablet PC or portable scanner device.
System
Wide Support:
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System
Wide Item Barcode Scanning Support
Elliott allows scanning of an item barcode anywhere in Elliott
where it prompts for an item number. Item barcodes can be an
Item Number, UPC Code, EAN.UCC-8, 13, or 14, or Manufactures
Item Number. This allows warehouse personnel to effectively
collect inventory data by using the barcode already on the box
without needing to create a barcode based on the Elliott Item
Number.
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GTIN
(Global Trade Item Number) Support
Elliott
supports GTIN, which includes EAN.UCC-14 (SCC-14), EAN.UCC-13,
UCC-12 (UPC) and EAN.UCC-8. GTIN also supports package size.
Scanning of a GTIN in Physical Count and Shipping Verification
will increase the quantity by the package size.
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Tablet
PC Operation
Inside
the Elliott application, where the system prompts for an item
number, the user can either enter the item number, or scan
the barcode of the item (i.e. UPC code) and it will be converted
to the Elliott Item Number. This funciton makes Elliott a
suitable application to run in the warehouse. Some users have
already used a notebook on a cart or light weight tablet PC
in the warehouse with great success. Typically, they will
have the warehouse setup with Wi-Fi access. Since covering
the entire warehouse with Wi-Fi can be expensive, some only
cover a portion (i.e. receiving area) with Wi-Fi by purchasing
a single wireless router. The barcode scanner will connect
to the computer's PS/2 or USB port by wire. For ultimate flexibility,
the scanner can connect to the computer through another wireless
connection (i.e. Bluetooth). This type of scanner is typically
not expensive compared to an eWarehouse device. This scanner
does not have a screen or keypad since they are simply a keyboard
wedge scanner.
You may consider using this kind of soltuion for Receiving,
Shipping Verification, Physical Count, Inventory Transfer
(especially for Multi-Bin operations) or simply Stock Status
Inquiry.
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Portable Scanner Device Support:
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eWarehouse
eWarehouse
provides greater flexibility by allowing you to use a Windows
Mobile Scanner to collect inventory data for functions such
as Physical Inventory Count, Warehouse Receiving, Multi-Bin
operations, Stock Status Inquiry (by item/by bin), Inventory
Transfer between Bins and Item Barcode Printing.
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Receiving
Support:
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Warehouse
Receiving
This feature allows for faster PO receiving. Warehouse Receiving
has advantages over the traditional PO Receiving functions in
the following ways:
(1) Warehouse Receiving is simplified and allows scanning operation.
No G/L account entry is needed and cost fields are skipped by
default. This makes the Warehouse Receiving function ideal for
the warehouse operator. This will speed up the receiving process
and improve productivity and accuracy.
(2) Warehouse Receiving offers a CSV File Import option. If
you are an importer, most likely your overseas vendors can provide
you with container details in a spreadsheet format as soon as
the ship departs the port. This data can be imported into Warehouse
Receiving Transaction tables to save you data entry.
In Elliott
V7.4, both the traditional Receiving and Warehouse Receiving
transaction quantities will be displayed in PO Inquiry and in
the F5 window of the PO Line Item Maintenance as pending. Both
can work with the Vessel file for batch control. If you change
the vessel arrival date, all corresponding receiving transactions'
scheduled receiving date will be changed as well (and reflect
in the ATP details). Users can enter the receiving transactions
in advance and place the vessel on hold for posting. In addition
to the visibility of the PO data showing on the ATP, the un-posted
(on-hold) receiving transactions will now show up on the ATP
to give customer service better visibility of the goods on the
ocean. This On Ocean ATP information will have a much more accurate
arrival date than those ATP transactions for a PO.
Therefore,
if you are an importer, you can consider importing the spreadsheet
data provided by your overseas vendors as warehouse receiving
transactions. This will give the Goods on Ocean ATP visibility
to customer service. Upon the actual arrival of the container,
you can let the warehouse personnel verify the already imported
receiving data against the actual receiving. If it matches,
then release the vessel and now you can post the warehouse
receiving transactions. We believe this is a much more streamline,
productive and informative receiving method.
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Warehouse Support:
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Inventory
Transfer With Barcode Scanning Support
This
feature is designed for the warehouse person to transfer inventory
from one warehouse location to another without worrying about
the distribution accounts. If used with Multi-Bin, it lets the
warehouse person enter bin information through the "Inventory
Transfer" process. A dispatch process is introduced in
Inventory Transfer providing an easy-to-use user interface.
The Transfer ticket now comes with a pre-designed laser form
template that supports item and bin barcodes. Data collection
by the warehouse can be made much faster and more accurate by
scanning barcodes.
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Multi-Bin
This add-on feature is designed for a warehouse with
a multiple bin configuration. The Multi-Bin process can be either
a one-step or two-step process. The two-step process eliminates
the burden of the office person having to know which bin the
item is going to be received to or shipped from, which in many
cases only the warehouse knows. The extra step of communication
between the warehouse and the office slows down the multi-bin
process and makes it more difficult.
Bin Inquiry
With the Multi-Bin option, the Bin Inquiry allows you to specify
a range of bins and find out whether the bin is empty, half
full, or full (by looking at weight, volume and quantity of
that bin). When you drill down to a bin, a list of items that
are currently occupying that bin will show up. This screen is
useful to find out to which bins to put away received items.
Bin Inventory
Report
With the Multi-Bin option, this report prints from the bin point
of view and list the items in the bin. You can also use this
report to determine empty bins so users can decide which bins
can be used to store received items. An option to block out
the quantity information can be used to give warehouse personnel
something to count when they are not busy.
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Barcode
Scanning Support for Physical Inventory Count
The
Physical Count Tag entry program has been enhanced and is now
suitable for barcode scanning. Regular items or serialized items
can be scanned efficiently. The multi-bin function is also supported.
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Physical
Count Import & Export Utility
Physical Count supports editing the count tag information
by exporting to a spreadsheet and allows importing a spreadsheet
to update the Physical Count Tag File. Users can utilize the
"Create Count Tag" utility to first create the count
tag file and then export it to a spreadsheet to allow easier
editing. With the ability to edit count tags in a spreadsheet,
it greatly improves the time required for physical count data
entry.
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Shipping Support:
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Shipping
Data Update
This function allows the warehouse personnel to update
the shipment tracking number, shipping date, freight, misc.
charge, freight pay code, shipping instructions, comments, weight,
bill of lading number, etc. The administrator can turn off and
on each one of these fields based on your security policy.
Many organizations do not allow the warehouse to access the
Order or Billing screens due to security concerns. However,
the extra step of having the warehouse write down the necessary
information on picking tickets and the accounting department
input them on the order is not efficient. This feature will
streamline the data collection for the warehouse. In addition,
the warehouse can optionally print a packing list immediately
after the order data is updated through this window.
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Shipping
Verification
This add-on feature is more sophisticated than Shipping
Confirmation and supports Barcode Scanning to verify each shipped
item, tracks content of each package, and supports printing
of an EDI ASN UCC-128 label. It is an ideal way to allow the
warehouse to select the items for an order and insure accuracy.
In addition, Shipping Verification supports collection of package
level data, including: Packing Code, Weight, Volume, Freight,
Tracking Number and User definable information. This information
may be used for order inquiry or sending an EDI Advanced Shipping
Notice (ASN).
Shipping Verification can optionally bring up the "Shipping
Data Update Window" to allow the warehouse to finish the
order data collection process. Upon order verification, the
system can optionally perform billing selection to streamline
the whole shipping process. The packing list can be printed
immediately after the order is confirmed.
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Shipping
Confirmation
This feature can be used by both the office and warehouse personnel.
However, it is designed primarily for the warehouse personnel
due to the security restriction of not allowing to change the
order header screen.
The line item confirmation screen in Order Confirmation is more
user friendly than the Billing Selection Process. This function
will be useful for the office personnel if they do not need
to modify order header information. Upon completion of Order
Confirmation, the user can also choose to print an immediate
packing slip to speed up the shipment process.
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Shipping
Manifest
Elliott Business Software integrates with Starship
Shipping Manifest. It supports UPS, FedEx, USPS and more.
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Billing
Selection Supports Immediate Printing of Packing Slip
Billing Selection can print an immediate Packing
Slip. If your operation requires a copy of the packing slip
to be included with the shipment, this can speed up your process
of generating the packing slip.
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