Modern warehouses have complex requirements. Fast product cycles, the need to decrease inventory and increase the flow of goods through the supply chain means that warehouses cannot remain static. Virtual real time data must match the supply to demand. Furthermore, many light manufacturing operations, such as final assembly, customized packing, labeling, and engraving, have been moved from shop floors to warehouses and distribution centers (DC). As a result, supply chain execution (SCE) software has been created and amended to handle these complex requirements. Warehouse management systems (WMS) play a key role in a company's postponement strategy to delay the customization of products until after the products or customized components leave the manufacturing plant.
Part Three of the Adonix' Mid-Market FORMULA--Adopting Best of Both "Organic Growers" and "Aggressive Consolidators" Worlds series.
To address SCE for users of its discrete and process manufacturing suites, Adonix (www.adonix.com), France's largest, privately owned enterprise solutions provider for medium manufacturers, provides three distinct offerings for automating warehouse activities, based on key factors such as transaction volumes and complexity of processing requirements. WMS and SCE might be the best examples of Adonix' commitment to providing its customers with the building blocks for supply chain management (SCM). Its research and development strategy has involved examining and prioritizing market trends to help customers grow and new products and services are then introduced through both in-house development and acquisition.
Adonix has provided warehouse solutions in North America since the 1980s, which has allowed it to leverage existing experience and skills. It also has a fairly strong historical customer base starting with Navistar and VWR Scientific, and is a pioneer in the radio frequency (RF) technology, authoring LXE LDS device drivers. Existing and prospective user companies can use the warehousing capabilities within the Adonix' offering set that match the sophistication of their facilities:
1. Adonix Geode GX is a full-function WMS designed within the Adonix X3 development framework to meet the needs of mid-sized companies with large transaction volumes and sophisticated warehouse practices. It is an enterprise-level configurable, multisite, multi-company, multilingual, multi-database/multi-operating system, and multi-workflow solution with rules-based inventory storage and retrieval and automation capabilities.
Adonix' ideas behind Geode GX has been to offer "tier one functionality at a tier three cost-of-ownership" to medium companies that do not necessarily want to compromise on functionality and cost. As the flagship X3 ERP product, the WMS extension is also configurable for the changing needs via a 4GL personalization and configuration toolset. Adonix recently redeveloped Geode within the X3 technology and plans to sell it both as a module of Adonix X3 and as a best-of-breed WMS solution in its traditional market, especially the consumer packaged goods (CPG) vertical.
2. The Adonix Advanced Warehousing and Adonix Data Collection modules provide RF directed support for primary warehouse activities including receiving, put-away, palletized order picking, pick planning, and shipping.
3. The Adonix X3 Inventory module provides core location and stock management functionality as an integrated component within Adonix X3. It can work either as a paper-based solution or with ADC support for most inventory transactions.
This is Part Three of a four-part note.
Part One detailed the company and its products.
Part Two discussed Adonix' strategy.
Part Four will cover technology, challenges, and make user recommendations.
Adonix X3 and Geode GX
Adonix announced the North American availability of Adonix Geode GX in May at the Distribution/Computer Expo 2005 at the Navy Pier in Chicago, Illinios (US). The product is configurable for a user enterprise, and supports current technologies such as RF devices, bar coding, and features multi-site, multi-workflow, and has many accompanying automation capabilities (such as conveyors, automatic storage and retrieval systems [AS/RS], carousels and sorting equipment). Its open design orientation makes it relatively easy to fit into most operating environments including support for Microsoft Windows and UNIX platforms as well as for Microsoft SQL Server and Oracle databases. Also, its user interface (UI) is available both on the Internet and in traditional client/server mode.
GX has been implemented in over 100 Europe sites and Geode has been implemented at 350 sites, in industries as diverse as retail distribution, manufacturing, wholesale, automotive, chemical and third party logistics (3PL). Its users include market leaders such as Hewlett-Packard (HP), Wyeth Lederle, and Philips. The launch follows several years of successful implementations at customer sites throughout Europe, with other high-profile luxury CPG/retail customers, such as L'Occitane, Cartier, and Christofle, industrial/automotive customers, such as Michelin and Schneider Electric, high-tech customers like Bull, and 3PL customers like Air France, Danzas, TNT, Exel, Geodis, and Kuehne & Nagel. The North American pilot installation has been completed and is live as of early June 2005 at the US distribution operations for L'Occitane in Lyndhurst, New Jersey (US).
What might be particularly appealing about this best-of breed WMS offering, however, is that it was designed using the enterprise resource planning (ERP) counterpart, Adonix X3's toolset, and that it also mirrors the Adonix X3's target markets process and discrete manufacturers and distributors (about 40 percent of customers), chemical and pharmaceutical distributors (about 15 percent of customer), 3PLs (about 30 percent of customers), and retailers (about remaining 15 percent). This means that, unlike most peer mid-market business solutions, which are a collection of acquired packages bolted together to form a suite, Adonix has taken the time and made the hefty investment to build a solution on a single architecture that is portable to multiple platforms. This has eliminated the need to learn and support separate system platforms and might be a key distinction for mid-sized companies with limited resources, while trying to naturally boost functionality and configurability to take business to the next level of competitiveness.
Further, Geode GX complements the needs of those industries that are targeted by Adonix X3. Although Geode GX is designed to connect easily with Adonix X3 ERP, it can function as a stand-alone or can be loosely coupled WMS application with other transactional systems. The basis of the Adonix' approach is that warehousing practices can be defined by a number of practical workflows that apply to multiple vertical industries. Examples of these workflows include supply side manufacturing, vendor-managed inventory (VMI), and other supplier visibility tools, finished goods distribution, pre-distribution (retail) warehousing, web storefronts and online ordering, shipment track and trace, etc. Each workflow can then be tailored to the specific needs of an industry such as, lot control, quality assurance, import/export, serialization, and labeling.
Based on the general warehousing functionality discussed in Who Needs Warehousing and How Much Thereof?, Geode has many traits of best-of-breed WMS solutions, such as rules-based storage; allocation; picking; packing; loading; reservation (i.e., special order items) management; batch/lot control and serial number control; management of multiple product and location classifications; inventory transfers and external warehouse management; expiration/use by/sell by date control; European Article Number (EAN-13) or universal product code (UPC) management; cycle counting and inventory management; and a bevy of inquiries and reporting capabilities.
SOURCE:-
http://www.technologyevaluation.com/research/articles/responding-to-warehouse-management-needs-18179/
Part Three of the Adonix' Mid-Market FORMULA--Adopting Best of Both "Organic Growers" and "Aggressive Consolidators" Worlds series.
To address SCE for users of its discrete and process manufacturing suites, Adonix (www.adonix.com), France's largest, privately owned enterprise solutions provider for medium manufacturers, provides three distinct offerings for automating warehouse activities, based on key factors such as transaction volumes and complexity of processing requirements. WMS and SCE might be the best examples of Adonix' commitment to providing its customers with the building blocks for supply chain management (SCM). Its research and development strategy has involved examining and prioritizing market trends to help customers grow and new products and services are then introduced through both in-house development and acquisition.
Adonix has provided warehouse solutions in North America since the 1980s, which has allowed it to leverage existing experience and skills. It also has a fairly strong historical customer base starting with Navistar and VWR Scientific, and is a pioneer in the radio frequency (RF) technology, authoring LXE LDS device drivers. Existing and prospective user companies can use the warehousing capabilities within the Adonix' offering set that match the sophistication of their facilities:
1. Adonix Geode GX is a full-function WMS designed within the Adonix X3 development framework to meet the needs of mid-sized companies with large transaction volumes and sophisticated warehouse practices. It is an enterprise-level configurable, multisite, multi-company, multilingual, multi-database/multi-operating system, and multi-workflow solution with rules-based inventory storage and retrieval and automation capabilities.
Adonix' ideas behind Geode GX has been to offer "tier one functionality at a tier three cost-of-ownership" to medium companies that do not necessarily want to compromise on functionality and cost. As the flagship X3 ERP product, the WMS extension is also configurable for the changing needs via a 4GL personalization and configuration toolset. Adonix recently redeveloped Geode within the X3 technology and plans to sell it both as a module of Adonix X3 and as a best-of-breed WMS solution in its traditional market, especially the consumer packaged goods (CPG) vertical.
2. The Adonix Advanced Warehousing and Adonix Data Collection modules provide RF directed support for primary warehouse activities including receiving, put-away, palletized order picking, pick planning, and shipping.
3. The Adonix X3 Inventory module provides core location and stock management functionality as an integrated component within Adonix X3. It can work either as a paper-based solution or with ADC support for most inventory transactions.
This is Part Three of a four-part note.
Part One detailed the company and its products.
Part Two discussed Adonix' strategy.
Part Four will cover technology, challenges, and make user recommendations.
Adonix X3 and Geode GX
Adonix announced the North American availability of Adonix Geode GX in May at the Distribution/Computer Expo 2005 at the Navy Pier in Chicago, Illinios (US). The product is configurable for a user enterprise, and supports current technologies such as RF devices, bar coding, and features multi-site, multi-workflow, and has many accompanying automation capabilities (such as conveyors, automatic storage and retrieval systems [AS/RS], carousels and sorting equipment). Its open design orientation makes it relatively easy to fit into most operating environments including support for Microsoft Windows and UNIX platforms as well as for Microsoft SQL Server and Oracle databases. Also, its user interface (UI) is available both on the Internet and in traditional client/server mode.
GX has been implemented in over 100 Europe sites and Geode has been implemented at 350 sites, in industries as diverse as retail distribution, manufacturing, wholesale, automotive, chemical and third party logistics (3PL). Its users include market leaders such as Hewlett-Packard (HP), Wyeth Lederle, and Philips. The launch follows several years of successful implementations at customer sites throughout Europe, with other high-profile luxury CPG/retail customers, such as L'Occitane, Cartier, and Christofle, industrial/automotive customers, such as Michelin and Schneider Electric, high-tech customers like Bull, and 3PL customers like Air France, Danzas, TNT, Exel, Geodis, and Kuehne & Nagel. The North American pilot installation has been completed and is live as of early June 2005 at the US distribution operations for L'Occitane in Lyndhurst, New Jersey (US).
What might be particularly appealing about this best-of breed WMS offering, however, is that it was designed using the enterprise resource planning (ERP) counterpart, Adonix X3's toolset, and that it also mirrors the Adonix X3's target markets process and discrete manufacturers and distributors (about 40 percent of customers), chemical and pharmaceutical distributors (about 15 percent of customer), 3PLs (about 30 percent of customers), and retailers (about remaining 15 percent). This means that, unlike most peer mid-market business solutions, which are a collection of acquired packages bolted together to form a suite, Adonix has taken the time and made the hefty investment to build a solution on a single architecture that is portable to multiple platforms. This has eliminated the need to learn and support separate system platforms and might be a key distinction for mid-sized companies with limited resources, while trying to naturally boost functionality and configurability to take business to the next level of competitiveness.
Further, Geode GX complements the needs of those industries that are targeted by Adonix X3. Although Geode GX is designed to connect easily with Adonix X3 ERP, it can function as a stand-alone or can be loosely coupled WMS application with other transactional systems. The basis of the Adonix' approach is that warehousing practices can be defined by a number of practical workflows that apply to multiple vertical industries. Examples of these workflows include supply side manufacturing, vendor-managed inventory (VMI), and other supplier visibility tools, finished goods distribution, pre-distribution (retail) warehousing, web storefronts and online ordering, shipment track and trace, etc. Each workflow can then be tailored to the specific needs of an industry such as, lot control, quality assurance, import/export, serialization, and labeling.
Based on the general warehousing functionality discussed in Who Needs Warehousing and How Much Thereof?, Geode has many traits of best-of-breed WMS solutions, such as rules-based storage; allocation; picking; packing; loading; reservation (i.e., special order items) management; batch/lot control and serial number control; management of multiple product and location classifications; inventory transfers and external warehouse management; expiration/use by/sell by date control; European Article Number (EAN-13) or universal product code (UPC) management; cycle counting and inventory management; and a bevy of inquiries and reporting capabilities.
SOURCE:-
http://www.technologyevaluation.com/research/articles/responding-to-warehouse-management-needs-18179/
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