Warehouse Management

Food & Beverage

In today's competitive food and beverage landscape, managing your supply chain effectively is paramount. VAI's Food & Beverage Warehouse Management System (WMS) equips you with cutting-edge tools to optimize warehouse operations, increase inventory accuracy, and order fulfillment rates.

Key Features:

Receiving

  • Automatically verify received items against purchase orders to ensure accuracy
  • Lot and date tracking facilitates traceability from farm to fork, critical for recalls if necessary
  • Automatic barcode generation for streamlined product verification.
  • Support for GTIN labels and more for food safety regulations
  • Full catch weight management by item, and easily identify and quarantine purchase orders that fall outside of the predefined tolerances
  • Optimized put-away processing based on pre-configured bin management.
  • Easily identify temperature-controlled items that require storage in specific areas of the warehouse

Picking and Shipping

  • Embedded order manager screen to view, release, and manage sales orders while considering product shelf life and expiry dates
  • Prioritize picking of items nearing expiration to minimize waste and ensure freshness upon delivery
  • Group selected orders based on customizable sort options including temperature requirements to optimize picking routes, maintain food quality, and expedite deliveries
  • Monitor picking progress and analyze performance by area, zone, and individual picker to identify areas for improvement
  • Ensure picked items match customer orders with verification functionality
  • Easily verify catch weight items to ensure it meets the expected order amount

Bin Replenishment and Warehouse Transfers

  • Support for automated or manual replenishment options
  • Generate automatic or manual inter-location and inter-company warehouse transfers, optimized based on usage, transfer lead times, and minimum inventory requirements at each location while maintaining food safety best practices

Cycle Counting and Physical Inventory

  • Maintain inventory accuracy with automatic cycle counting based on predefined item classes
  • Conduct comprehensive physical inventories to maintain inventory integrity and comply with food safety regulations

Truck/Pallet Building

  • Streamline the picking process by building pallets based on product type
  • Build trucks based on weight, route/stop, and designate temperature-controlled items for certain areas of the truck for enhanced truck loading processes