ILISVision®
Warehouse Management

Today successful enterprises strive for the optimization of the internal logistics processes. The rationale is simple: Well-adapted and supported logistics processes may yield substantial savings, while increasing the quality of the services. ILISVision®—the Integrated Logistics Information System—addresses the requirements of your company's warehouse management. ILISVision® yields measurable benefits to small, medium and large enterprises.

Goals

ILISVision® empowers your company's warehouse management with the following features:

• Easy management of guaranteed minimum stock level
• Transparent, reliable warehousing
• Always up-to-date, always accessible stock-level
• Optimised storage space
• Every product in the warehouse can be easily located
• Shorter access paths in the warehouse
• Reduced error rate for every operation in the warehouse
• Reduced "out-of-stock" messages for your customers and chain stores
• corporate planning in storage
• Optimised path for the picking process
• Rapid delivery to customers
• Lower degree of dependence on warehousing staff know-how
• Optimized planning of warehouse's personnel
• Easily traceable warehousing costs
• Standardized processes for the enterprise
• Integrated batch operation management
• On-time delivery to production
• Ease of storage for the finished products, out of the production chain

Benefits

ILISVision® aims at completing and enhancing your company ERP system (Enterprise Resource Planning) by controlling, optimising and reorganising your company's logistics processes. ILISVision empowers your company with an efficient and flexible warehouse management tool set.

Deployed with wireless communicating terminals, ILISVision® provides the following benefits to your corporate warehouse:

• Optimisation of the picking process
• Reduction of inventory
• Reduced seeking in the warehouse
• Optimisation of indoor transports
• Reduced response time for deliveries (express, self-collector)
• Simplified, better structured internal workflow
• Increased operating efficiency without surplus load of the warehouse personnel
• Flexible task assignment, with less training for the staff (ideal for part-time workers)
• Precise operating figures for the whole warehouse
• Reduced operating costs

ILISVision® — Standard Version

The illustration below depicts the logistics processes implemented by ILISVision® Standard Version.

Many different industry sectors may benefit from the deployment of ILISVision®, thanks to the orthogonal and complete feature set included with the Standard Version.

A typical installation includes the following standard procedures:

• Random and manual management for rack storage, block storage, small-part storage, drive-through storage, cantilever storage, satellite storage, pool of stock receipt
• Management of external storage
• Paperless picking
• Paper-based picking
• Coordination of the picking with the planning of the shipping route
• Order compression during the picking process
• Distribution of goods according to the request of the quantity to be distributed
• Cross-docking
• Control of received goods and palletizing
• Reception and storage with electronic data interchange
• Replacement
• Replenishment from stock to picking area
• Replenishment from stock or reception area to distribution area
• Fork-lifting control system with controlled and spontaneous transport orders
  with 1–to–n stations or transfer stations
• Compression of goods in shipping area
• Monitoring and control of the loading process
• Packing and print out of packaging lists
• Management and accounting of in-storage handling
• Basic interfaces with your company's ERP system
• Input masks for wireless picking on the terminals
• Requirements planning for the warehouse personnel
• Data mining, statistics
• Inventory
• Driver for wireless terminals
• Multi-language support
• User management

Software architecture

ILISVision® is a complex software system modularly designed for sake of extensibility. It features different presentation layers; each one tailored to the different usage patterns.

• The Windows-based User Interface can be hosted by a personal computer running Microsoft Windows and is recommended for operation in the back-office.
• The Web-based User Interface can be run from within any modern web browser and is recommended for anytime-anywhere access to the warehouse.
• The Wireless Terminal User Interface provides radio terminal masks and is used on the handheld scanners.

Interfaces

ILISVision® provides open and flexible interfaces to the popular ERP systems (Enterprise Resource Planning) and subsystem controllers (PLC, Programmable Logic Controller).

Master data for addressed, products, routes, etc. are migrated from the ERP system over the aforementioned interface. Customers and suppliers orders, inventory changes, etc. are incrementally transferred.

The subsystems interface is responsible for the communication with the automation components of the warehouse, on an automatic or semiautomatic regime.

Extensibility

The modular architecture of ILISVision® allows for the implementation of new functionalities: Your logistics processes can be easily integrated in ILISVision® Standard Version, thereby making it the perfect Warehouse Management tool for your Company.