AS software automates the processes of Smart Market store

AS Software, specialist in the development and commercialization of management software, It has computerised management of warehouses of the murcian signing Smart Market, one of the main Spanish importers of Asian products to local multiprecio, belonging to the Group Smart Market dedicated to the manufacture, marketing and distribution of products for the home and use daily.

To this end, AS Software has been integrated AS-EMS, its automatic stores management system, with EKON, ERP developed by SAP and implemented in the company, thus integrating the management of the warehouse of the wholesaler in its information through the use of radio frequency system. With the introduction of ACE-SGA, AS Software has solved the need for Smart Market expedite and make more effective their logistics processes especially optimizing the grouping of all your stock distributed until then in several ships independent - in a single warehouse of 18,000 m2 of capacity.

With ACE-SGA, now Smart Market can manage through the use of terminals of frequency, the flows of information stemming from its warehouses and integrate them in real time with EKON, with which the company carries out the basic management of the company.

Among the improvements and features that has managed the firm: the streamlining of management posts and receptions by automating them through bars and confirm code readers; the optimization of the management of inventories, now much more quickly and easily (by location, account, or extraction) that allows the firm to have the store updated with minimal effort; more effective management Open box (loose units) both picking and box complete; and the improvement in the continuous management of reruns through a supply more agile to indicate the system what materials must replenish the user to perform the following expeditions, and can make them in two ways according to needs: grouped for repeated expeditions in products or document by document.

The automatic generation of workloads to warehouse operators has been another of the major improvements that Smart Market has been achieved. So on the function of balancing of loads, its store managers can now view, modify and order the tasks performed by each operator (user RF) quick and simple way. Also, the wholesaler also has resolved one of the most important needs in the logistics environment: the location of the pallet. With ACE-SGA, Smart Market achieved an optimal management of the pallets to find automatically the system the perfect location for the same as the width, height and type of pallet and taking into account other information such as the logistic family, accessible location types, rotation and current stock, etc. Similarly, improved management of locations taking maximum advantage of the storage capacity to contemplate different criteria for location and expedition to get a proper rotation of products.

On the other hand, the classification by ABC of product based on the integration of historical movements and forecasts, has been a great improvement. Now the company, by calculating logistics rotation, what products are known which have rotated in a given period of time and be positioned at these locations.

AS-EMS has also enabled Smart Market manage and configure the Logistics Center and logical stores as well as optimize the management of transfers between areas of the logistics centre of direct or deferred. You can also block items in the warehouse of quality (quarantine) creating codes of blockade and minimizing the risk of delivery of products or materials outside rule. And you can tag all and each of the entities involved in the management of the warehouse (product, pallet, box...) automatically as well as print documents from the terminal form online as the packing list of shipping, preparation sheet, the delivery of sale labels of delivery for the carrier, etc.

Finally, note that AS-EMS has Smart Market provided the advantage of linking their logistics management with the agencies of transport that works (DHL, La Murciana, Redur, Azcar, etc.)