Newsletter 42

A warehouse management system designed specifically for multi-channel retail operations has been developed by MNP, a specialist in the multi-channel sector.

The company already offers packages for order management and purchasing, which include basic WMS functionality; but now it has developed a complete WMS from the ground up, naming it WMSactive. The company says it is particularly effective at single-pick or “eaches” handling, since the underlying logic has been pitched at a fine level of granularity; and it has a multiplicity of monitoring and reporting functions.

It is a real-time system capable of supporting multiple users and multiple clients, and hence should be useful for outsourced fulfilment providers. There is also a store replenishment module, enabling it to handle the basics of conventional bricks-and-mortar retail fulfilment as well. A wireless component is due to be added next year.