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OUTBOUND FUNCTIONALITY

ORDER PROCESSING
WISE's Order Management functionality is a flexible tool used to group and release orders for shipment. This easy-to-use functionality gives the manager the capabilities of releasing single orders or groups of orders based on order number, customer ID, destination, dates, FIFO/LIFO carriers, priorities, and any combination thereof. At any point in the warehouse order process an order can be immediately cancelled and WISE will generate all the necessary tasks to re-stock the items already in the picking or shipping process. Specific Order Prioritization pushes orders that require special handling or expediting to automatically be assigned in the system to receive priority within the task pool.

PICKING
WISE enables the warehouse management to flexibly release orders to the warehouse floor to be picked and processed. A paperless warehouse is the goal of any WMS, but if printed picklists are required, WISE can deliver a simple hybrid of the two. *If a paper-based system is required, please see the WISE-Paper section of the product information brochure.

By using the RF technology, a release of an order or group of orders is called a wave. A wave can be released to be picked for an order, zone, location, or employee. WISE can pick by wave, order, priority demands, pallet, partial pallet, piece, zone, location, and by customer. The picks are assigned to individual employees based on user defined priorities, product/order attributes, security clearance, and internal warehouse path sequences. All details of the picking tasks are recorded in a detailed WISE transaction log for reporting employee, unit of measure, destination, and transaction time stamps.

PACKING
WISE supports many different packing methods. The most common is to pick from general storage, then take the goods to the predetermined packing stations where the "packer" takes over the next step of the order's process. If the user has defined that they are picking an individual order or orders, WISE can then pick from general storage locations and put the items directly into the packing container ready for shipment. This is also termed “palletization” if the packing container is a pallet and the entire pallet is used to ship. WISE’s Cartonization functionality enables the warehouse manager to use the item’s cube information based upon entered weight and dimensions of merchandise to be packed for put-away for best location space utilization.

SHIPPING
After the items for an order have gone through all of the user defined steps including pick, pack, and palletize, it can then be shipped. The orders can be consolidated into one shipment based on order number, container, carrier, wave, zip code, or state. WISE's detailed shipping logic allows for these variables and any combination thereof.

LOAD MANAGEMENT
The shipments’ delivery order sequence can be automatically picked and staged for loading based upon delivery route. The pickers will be directed to “pick-to-nose” in order to ensure that the last delivery is loaded first.

OUTBOUND DOCUMENTATION
At shipping, all of the necessary outbound documentation is produced including but not limited to invoice, packing lists, shippers export doc/ AES transmission, shippers letter of instruction, NAFTA certificates, bank document, domestic bills of lading, dock receipt, hazardous goods documents, and domestic carrier labels.

SHIPMENT / FREIGHT CONSOLIDATION
Orders being processed at different times for the same destination can be consolidated at time of shipping to reduce transportation charges including UPS hundred weight, LTL carrier, or other.

PARCEL CARRIERS
WISE can be integrated directly to each of the individual shipping manifest systems of the parcel carrier companies. The shipping manifest can be automatically sent to UPS, Federal Express, or other to insure accurate billing and tracking of shipments. This tracking and freight information is then stored in WISE for reference and automatic email notifications.

EDI Capabilities
WISE can either integrate with your current EDI Package, or can utilize the R4-EDI module. The R4 EDI module is a powerful transaction mapping and data-conditioning application that easily accommodates trading partners in a variety of industries. The R4-EDI provides a streamlined method of managing EDI communications between WISE and your trading partners. Features include:

• A flexible table-driven architecture accommodates a range of trading partners and document types.
• Rapidly create or modify maps, minimizing testing time and speeding implementation of gateways.
• Modular architecture provides easy, Web-based access to a growing library of new trading partner maps.