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Work Order Processing

Getting it right the first time

A lot more goes on in distribution centers today than simple pick, pack and ship. Through postponement strategies, customer service requirements and store-ready processing, DCs are becoming limited production centers, requiring skills, equipment, processes and management practices not seen in traditional warehouses. Work order processing in these DCs can be more akin to manufacturing processes than traditional distribution functions. So how do you direct and control these processes to ensure accurate and efficient delivery to the customer?

RedPrairie work order processing assigns, sequences and directs all tasks to help ensure timely, consistent and accurate completion of work order production – getting customers what they want, the way they want it, when they want it. In many ways it can be thought of as a manufacturing execution system for the DC.

Work order processing functionality includes:

  • Work order assignment, sequencing and execution
  • Raw material control, including back-flushing
  • Multi-level Bills of Material
  • Postponement strategies
  • Value-added services
  • Work cell planning and scheduling
  • Light manufacturing / assembly
  • Kitting / de-kitting
  • Store-ready containers / pallets

Work order processing is highly configurable, providing the flexibility you need to tailor processing to your initial needs, as well as to ever-changing customer requirements. System-directed work ensures efficiency and throughput even within the chaos of multiple, changing customer requirements. RedPrairie Work Order Processing helps put you in control. That’s our response to chaos theory.