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Intelligent Innovation - Strategies and Technologies for Growth & Profitability
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March 14-17, 2010
Supply chain transformation starts here - HDMA 2010 Distribution Management Conference & Technology Expo provides an unmatched opportunity to learn the newest strategies and solutions that drive supply chain transformation
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Technology Wars - Revolution can be a Pain in the Neck
Technology companies boast about their "revolutionary" new products, but it is the customer who is often caught under the guillotine without support or reasonable upgrade paths for older products.
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February 17, 2010
The “Death” of DRP - Interview with Darryl Landvater, Co-founder RedPrairie Collaborative Flowcasting
Is distribution resource planning an outdated, or near obsolete, way to predict how much product will be needed, and when?
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Harbin Pharmaceuticals selects RedPrairie Warehouse Management for 30,000 square meter distribution center
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March 2, 2010
Duane Reade increases store management floor time with RedPrairie Site Manager™
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February 22, 2010
RedPrairie to be acquired by New Mountain Capital
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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.

