Critical to Safety Component for Distributors includes WCS According to The Machinist
Released on: February 6, 2008, 12:31 pm
Press Release Author: Thomas R. Cutler
Industry: Software
Press Release Summary: Critical to Safety Component for Distributors includes WCS According to The Machinist
Press Release Body: In the current issue of The Machinist, leading manufacturing journalist, Thomas R. Cutler, described the "Streamlining of Security Process. According to Cutler "The reason WMS (warehouse management systems) are no longer providing this transactional role is that when a WMS operates more than a single warehouse, they are generally located off site, and tend to lose transaction speed. WCS offers configurability and flexibility along with the new level of required heightened security."
As outsourcing shifts the manufacturing model to a distribution centre modality, no where is employee safety more compromised than on the distribution floor. Unlike the days where all the items were shipped by the case load and carefully palletized, many retailers are demanding partial shipments.
All these specialized pick and pack distribution requirements could dramatically increase the safety concerns. According to Jerry List, VP of QC Software, "The old WMS (warehouse management system) model of advanced forecasting of the picking and shipping process does not work in a real-time dynamic warehouse. The WCS allows for real-time information and routing."
Only the bottom-line drives industrial safety and security. While it sounds politically correct and ethically appropriate to speak of employee well-being, too often this mantra is little more than corporate public relations spin. It is fine to speak of the responsibility of every company to establish, supervise.
Unless security and safety are seen as part of a lean manufacturing continued process improvement program, it is usually an afterthought to a 'problem'. This seemingly cynical perspective is played out in thousands of press releases daily; and safety concerns are 'carefully investigated.' Bottom-line impacts, from reduction of accidents and expensive product liability litigation, drive industrial safety and security.to think otherwise is naïve.
QC Software is the leading provider of Tier 1 warehouse control systems to the warehousing and distribution industries. Since 1996, QC Software, utilizing state of the art technology combined with extensive research, development, and rigorous testing, has developed the QC Enterprise suite of products. Designed to be modular in nature, easily configurable, and platform independent, this highly scalable solution satisfies the needs of any size warehouse.
QC Software, Inc. www.qcsoftware.com Jerry List JerryList@qcsoftware.com (513) 469-1424
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