Sterling Warehouse Management System

Optimize business processes across complex distribution networks

IBM Sterling Warehouse Management System (WMS) enables you to optimize complex distribution networks, centrally managing inventory, labor, and processes across multiple facilities

Sterling WMS allows you to manage your inventory and productivity in a single warehouse or across multiple facilities regardless of size, location, or process mix by providing a playing layer, a real-time execution layer, and operational visibility to ensure optimal utilization of resources.

Enables visibility across your complete distribution network
Customizes your operational processes to meet your business strategy and changing customer fulfillment requirements through a graphical business process modeler
Provides value-added services driven by work orders
Provides value-added services driven by work orders
Defines multi-enterprise and multi-distribution models that enable you to share inventory across all channels to market
Supports global deployments on a single instance of the application for operational consistency
Reduces warehouse operations and fulfillment costs
Improves customer service and perfect order fulfillment rates

Sterling WMS can help you improve inventory management and respond dynamically to market and customer shifts in demand. You can optimize inbound and outbound management with capabilities that include:

Capability	Description
Productivity Manager	Tracks productivity of labor using engineering standards or performance data derived from task execution history.
IBM® Sterling Resource Planning	Monitors warehouse workload based on actual and forecast demand, enabling dynamic redeployment of resources to resolve any imbalances.
Product Management	Delivers improved inventory accuracy by tracking user-defined product attributes such as lot number, serial number, and configurable units of measure.
Inbound Management	Provides comprehensive visibility to inbound shipments, scheduling, pre-receiving, receiving, and put away of receipts.
Inventory Management	Enables tracking of inventory at a location, in a case or on a pallet, based on item attributes including lot number and serial number.
IBM® Sterling WMS Slotting	Provides a goals and constraints-based approach to testing and optimizing slotting strategies.
Pick-to-Voice	Improves operational productivity by providing warehouses the ability to perform order pick tasks using hands-free execution
Outbound Scheduling and Management	Coordinates the order-release process and shipment routing to streamline outbound order processing through the grouping of shipments and wave planning.
Activity Reporting	Ensures accurate billing history for all tasks executed, enabling companies to understand the true cost to serve multiple products, clients, or divisions.