Perfect material flow and waste no more time in production supply and disposal.

Almost every manufacturing company knows the problem. The requirements for controlling production are increasing due to ever smaller batch sizes. And it is precisely this that makes it difficult to reliably handle the logistical processing of material supply and disposal from production in the warehouse. Because if the required material is missing from the machines, in the worst case scenario the entire production comes to a standstill or delays and additional costs are incurred due to necessary rescheduling.

Successfully mastering production supply and disposal
Various (raw) materials are usually used in the production of semi-finished and finished goods. Depending on the company and organization, these are supplied to the production process in a wide variety of ways for further processing. In order to ensure an optimal and efficient supply of the production, our warehouse management software supports the provision of materials. Information is exchanged via an interface between our SuPCIS-L8 and the ERP system. This creates an important prerequisite, namely the networking of material flows in the warehouse.

Before the production material can be processed further, it is received at goods receipt, buffered as stock in the warehouse and stored in the warehouse management system. If production requires material, the provision of raw materials or semi-finished goods from the warehouse is triggered. The required material is then made available for further processing at the production workstations.
As a rule, the ERP system initiates this production delivery via a production order to the Warehouse Management System. The required goods are reserved after scheduling and sequencing, picked by the employees and made available to production. The semi-finished and finished parts coming from production are then recorded in the Warehouse Management System via an advice note. Depending on whether it is customer-related goods or a larger quantity produced as buffer stock for the warehouse, the goods are processed further in the warehouse accordingly.

In addition, our software can also take over smaller tasks of a Manufacturing Execution System (MES). For example, the processing times of individual orders can be stored in the system. Our warehouse management system schedules the exact order times on this basis. In doing so, it calculates specifically at what time the respective order must be processed in order to supply the machines on time.

In this context, it makes sense to integrate deviating replenishment strategies or processes of material provision for production via the Warehouse Management System SuPCIS-L8. For example, the provision in fixed replenishment batches by means of integrated Kanban processes with mobile data collection. Unnecessary waiting times are thus avoided in production and the processes are kept running.

Automating the flow of materials in production
To also physically support the supply of production and to optimize the internal transport of materials, individual automation measures lend themselves to this. For this purpose, tugger train solutions are suitable, coupled with a tugger train management system integrated in our software or to be supplemented with automated guided vehicles (AGVs). The available interfaces make it possible to connect a wide variety of systems at low cost, integrate them into the material flow, and streamline and automate the entire process. At the same time, the system solution can be upgraded with additional features and supplementary processes at any time if required.

The result: greater security of supply for production, shorter throughput times, higher output and the associated competitiveness.

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