RedPrairie WMS Integrates Build-To-Order Features in New Release

Logistics Insight Asia - Top Story, 18/8/2008

Current version supports in-line sequencing and work order processing for seamless production and logistics.

RedPrairie Corporation has begun integrating its own Build-To-Order product’s in-line sequencing, as well as work order processing capabilities into its Warehouse Management System (WMS). The new updates will aid in supporting production line requirements – improving efficiency and accuracy for build-to-order manufacturers. These and other enhancements within the current release of RedPrairie’s Supply Chain Execution suite integrate work orders, production information and process flows from raw materials receipt through distribution, improving efficiency and accuracy.

The new WMS additions will allow several work orders to be allocated, scheduled and system-directed across multiple workstations. Labor standards, so successful in improving distribution workforce performance, have also been extended to the production line. These enhancements will improve the efficiency, control and visibility of production work order processing.

RedPrairie’s Build-To-Order solution provides in-sequence parts and component delivery to production lines, error proofing and traceability, shop floor integration with material handling equipment, and outbound delivery sequencing. This reduces lead times and inventory costs, improves on-time delivery, and enhances lean manufacturing efforts.

The new release also adds to the WMS’s vendor-managed inventory capabilities, improving visibility and control over inventory hand-off from supplier to customer. The new updates include support for the roll third party logistics providers often play in the process, tracking supplier information down to the item level, offering time-appropriate ownership transfer, and rules-based allocation algorithms by supplier.

The new release of RedPrairie’s E2e Supply Chain Execution suite is now available in general release.

RedPrairie Corporation, www.RedPrairie.com.