Features
PALMS™ Smart WMS by Technoforte is a Digital Transformation tool for supply chain and warehouse management designed to effectively manage warehouse operations across multiple warehouse locations, and a variety of industry verticals. With PALMS™, businesses are able to harness the software to increase efficiency, reduce costs, and improve the overall fluency of warehouse operations.
PALMS™ Smart WMS Core Features:
PALMS™ as a Digital Transformation Tool
The “Digital Warehouse” is centered around a number of smart features that put the control of all warehouse activities at your fingertips:
- Real-Time Visibility and Control: One of the core pillars of digitization is the ability to see and manage your warehouse operations in real time. PALMS™ excels in providing an immediate, holistic view of every aspect of your warehouse.
- Smart Mobility Solutions: PALMS™ takes warehouse mobility to a new level. The introduction of handheld devices equipped with smartphone apps, voice interfaces, and smart eyewear equips your workforce with powerful tools.
- Data-Driven Decision- Making: Leveraging machine learning and predictive analytics, PALMS™ transforms data into actionable insights. Historical data is analysed to forecast demand and optimize the use of assets and warehouse capacity.
- Automation and Robotics: Automation and robotics represent a cornerstone of modern warehousing, and PALMS™ seamlessly integrates these technologies.
- Technology for Enhanced Transparency: In addition to the existing features, PALMS™ embraces technology to offer enhanced transparency and trust within the warehouse. PALMS decentralized ledger records all transactions and movements securely.
Wave Picking
eCommerce operations are increasingly becoming a part of large enterprise supply chains. PALMS™ Wave Picking module is designed especially for eCommerce-related picking operations, offering the capabilities for automated wave generation based on pre-set criteria. It achieves this by batching orders together for consolidated pick operations.
PALMS™ VMT
The PALMS™ Android-based HHT App is optimized for Vehicle Mounted Terminals with long-range scanners. This ensures fast scanning by MHE operators without having to leave their seats each time. It improves the productivity of MHE Operators threefold by reducing travel time. For managers, Handy PALMS™ increases accessibility and mobility in the warehouse by offering remote visualization capabilities.
PALMS™ Resource & Cost Tracking
PALMS™ allows accurate tracking of manpower, machinery, and consumable resources. PALMS™ Task Management can handle automated as well as user-entered data on resource utilization. Costs can be attached to each resource type, and based on the actual utilization of resources, the cost of executing each transaction is computed. PALMS™ Analytics add-on module provides a drill-down and multi-dimensional analysis function to spot leakages and ‘MUDA’ (work that does not add value) wastages in processes, allowing businesses to increase operational efficiency. With all data on resources digitally accessible in the application, managers are able to make more informed decisions.
Robotic Process Automation (RPA) ready interfaces
Most time data that has to be entered into the system is not available in digitized EDI / CSV formats. Users are forced to perform repetitive data entry tasks in such scenarios. For example, ASN details wherein Supplier Invoices are sent as hard copies or PDF files. RPA interfaces in PALMS™ use tools like UIPath to process various types of Supplier Invoices so that all data entry can be done by the RPA robots. This eliminates needless manual labor and activities that contribute to the wastage of time and resources.
PALMS™ Activity Planner
The PALMS™ Activity Planner and Scheduler is driven by operations research-based heuristics and artificial intelligence. The algorithm computes various constraints like resource availability, MHE availability, Dock availability, shift timings, etc., and schedules the operations of the warehouse.
PALMS™ Cross Dock
PALMS™ Cross Dock helps run operations that directly allocate and transfer stock from receiving bays to dispatch bays. It is applicable in scenarios where back-to-back orders are received for dispatch or back orders require a direct transfer from the receiving to the dispatch bay.
PALMS™ Voice Picking
The PALMS™ Android-driven HHT Application can provide voice instructions and also accept voice inputs from the binner/picker. It helps in optimizing operations by hands-free communication of data.
PALMS™ Analytics
PALMS™ supports BI and Analytics reporting tools. Technoforte has a ready Analytics wrapper built on Qlik and can also be made available on Microsoft Power BI tool. PALMS™ Analytics is available on SaaS and requires additional 3rd party Qlik Licenses and Hosting capabilities. PALMS™ Analytics ‘out of the box’ Dashboards presentation is attached as an annexure along with this proposal. The dashboards cover visual analytics of Throughput, Location Utilization, Planned v/s Actual Receipts, Put Away Details, Put Away Performance, Put Away Quality Monitoring, Put Away Turnaround Time, Planned v/s Actual Dispatch, Dispatch Details, Pick Performance, Pick Turnaround Time, Vehicle Turnaround Time and Detention Analytics. The digital transformation of the warehouse enables instantaneous access to many insightful metrics.
PALMS™ Forecasting
An end to end Forecasting engine which can forecast Demand, Inventory and Purchase quantities based on past demand trends and other variables like seasonality. The capabilities of the application to forecast and provide managers a more comprehensive understanding of the warehouse are a result of PALMS™ digital transformation.