RedPrairie Further Expands Lead In WMS Functionality with New Capabilities for CPG / Food & Beverage and Retail Industries
Latest Release of DLx Warehouse Adds New Features for Key Target Verticals to Industry Leading WMS, Including Voice Picking, Event Management, and Enhanced Inventory Control.
Waukesha,WI - May 21, 2003 -RedPrairie Corporation, the leading provider of real-time, end-to-end logistics solutions, has announced general availability of DLx® Warehouse/P 6.0, which adds a powerful set of enhancements for consumer goods, food & beverage and retail companies that further expand RedPrairie’s leadership for these verticals. Highlights of the release include comprehensive support for voice picking, natively embedded event management, new inventory control features, improved wave management and expanded inbound and outbound distribution services.
Many of the new capabilities were developed in partnership with supply chain leaders in consumer goods, food and beverage, traditional retail and consumer-direct retail. The new features were designed to solve real world problems in these industries, and to further increase the ROI of RedPrairie’s solutions for these verticals.
Comments John Jazwiec, RedPrairie™ Company Results Leader: "These new capabilities demonstrate our commitment to helping our customers achieve the maximum benefits from our solutions. Our continued progress and success have been the result of listening to what our customers want in our products and finding ways to add value through improved technology support."
Key new capabilities in DLx Warehouse/P 6.0 include:
--Comprehensive support for voice picking for piece and case order picking operations. These capabilities augment RedPrairie’s configurable array of order picking methods, the industry broadest set. In many operations, voice picking can reduce picking costs and increase picking rates.
--Natively integrated event management to provide real-time alerts to exceptions and events as they occur throughout fulfillment processes. Users can easily subscribe to a large number of events, and select the specific media and schedule for how they wish to be notified (PDA, cell phone, pager, email, etc.). This allows faster reaction to problems, improving customer service and management control.
--Enhanced wave management functionality, enabling users to plan and execute waves within specific material handling system constraints, and to synchronize wave release with actual outbound trailer profiles and load diagrams.
--Improved inventory control through several new features such as automatically aging product or changing shelf life based on temperature conditions, and support for multiple types of lot/batch codes in the warehouse. Use of multiple lot code formats is increasing as a result of mergers and acquisitions, and the expanding use of mixing centers for consumer goods distribution.
-- New capabilities to automate execution of value-added services for both inbound and outbound operations. Many of these new service features were developed specifically to support the needs of direct to consumer retailers.
Says WMS Business Results Leader Susan Rider: "Our success has enabled us to keep investing in the research and development required to maintain and expand our customers’ logistics leadership in their industries. We continue to expand both the breadth and depth of our solutions, and to deliver highly packaged products that solve specific industry challenges."
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