Today, more than ever, companies must operate at maximum efficiency and provide superior service to ensure profitability. Supply and Distribution Chain Management is perhaps the single most important contributor in this direction. Your ability to effectively manage your warehouse, reduce costs and ensure smoothly run sales and fulfillment operations is critical to you.

Our success. From receiving inventory and timely order fulfillment, to automated validation of warehouse activities and accurate inventory control, your warehouse operating system must be designed to achieve peak performance across the enterprise.

SMASH is a comprehensive and powerful Warehouse Management System from SCAN, which effectively takes care of all the activities in today’s warehouse. It is feature-rich which makes it suitable for a large variety of business models ranging from Retailing, 3PL services, Distribution of Electronic and IT equipment, Automotive, Distribution of Spares, FMCG, Pharmaceuticals, etc.

By integrating advanced radio frequency and bar-coding technologies with core warehousing functionality, SMASH provides comprehensive fulfillment center and warehouse management, including order management, receiving, stocking, replenishment, picking, shipping and related warehouse tasks. SMASH puts nearly 100% picking and shipping accuracy within reach.

This Windows 2000/NT based software application tracks orders and product movement in real-time, using on-line activity updation. System-directed activities track locations and quantities of product from receipt to shipment in real time. The return on investment is quickly realized through higher productivity, enhanced inventory efficiency, and improved customer service.

Its Windows based architecture makes it convenient to integrate SMASH into your business ERP. This provides your organisation with the real-time information from the warehouse within the framework of your familiar ERP interface.

Benefits of SMASH
SMASH’s combination of existing software and customized implementation offers benefits that you won't receive from either plug-and-play software or big consulting firms. Scan’s expertise in the Automatic Identification and Mobile Computing field, makes SMASH a comprehensive, solution with tightly integrated bar-coding and scanning processes. This is the key differentiator from other generic Warehouse Management tools.

Increase Inventory Accuracy and Availability
Remember the old adage, "A place for everything and everything in its place?" That's what SMASH gives you. It sets up trackable locations for products from the time they're received until the time they're shipped.

Reduce Operational Costs
Information is power. In this case, information about shipments, product locations, product counts, order fulfillment, and despatch drive the system. This directs workers to perform each task comfortably, more quickly and accurately. The result is lower costs, fewer mistakes and more productive inventory.

Improve Customer Service.
When shipments arrive on time with the right products, everybody wins. SMASH delivers better customer satisfaction. It also delivers better reports to customers about their orders and product availability.

Expand Your Business
SMASH frees you to do more work and fulfill more orders. That means more business. It still lets you be very flexible to manage each customer's unique requirements better. You can take on new challenges and new markets with confidence.

SMASH equips workers to unload shipments and check-in products into the system using packing list or Advance Shipping Notice (ASN) to count SKUs. Products can be checked-in using bar-codes that already exist on them. Alternatively, SMASH can generate bar-code labels for the products that are received without them. It will audit actual vs. expected receipt and recognize any shortages or excesses. Check-in is real time, allowing product to be considered as stock in-hand when it has been checked in. The products are then immediately available for despatch if required. Cross-docking and Flow-through of material is also easily accomplished using SMASH.

The Putaway function is a rule-based, system-driven process that determines the best location for a SKU. SMASH provides Dynamic Space Allocation, with a wide range of design options to incorporate putaway logic that corresponds to business needs. SMASH generates best-fit putaway lists, and directs the operator to a preferred put-away location, as defined by the rules for the particular SKU(s). By scanning with radio terminals, SMASH records information including SKU number, quantity, location, operator and date of the inventory movements. Once at the put-away location, the operator verifies the accuracy of the move utilizing the radio terminal.

SMASH supports pick and pack operations that require multiple picks and kitting thereafter. It maintains inventory levels in the operations area and controls the movement of items from bulk storage locations to the operations area. Workers are directed to complete replenishment. All replenishment moves are system directed and accuracy verified through the use of the RF equipment.

The picking list directs the warehouse worker to pick items for customer orders from various areas within the warehouse. Warehouse workers using RF equipment are directed to locations by SMASH and are provided with instructions regarding the number and description of SKU to be picked. SMASH supports multiple picking methods including individual order picking, multiple order picking, and consolidated wave picking. Picking is also expedited using picks across pack-sizes in order to achieve fastest execution times.

SMASH relies on the data interface with the host system for all order entry functions, including customer orders, warehouse transfers, returns-to-vendor, and manufacturing work orders. Order execution requests are received from the host system using a system-specific data interface. The same interface communicates picking confirmations and replenishment operations back to the host system. Order processing starts with Stock allocation. SMASH maintains a hard allocation status for the orders that are in the system.
Allocation is done on the basis of FIFO or Pro-rata logic. In this allocation, SMASH can also handle multiple MRP products as per the distribution logic of LIFO or FIFO based on MRP. There after wave construction and wave release takes place. SMASH can expedite orders based on prioritisation.

Every transaction that is captured by SMASH can be incorporated into management reports. In addition, all data elements can be transferred in various file structures to the host system for manipulation or report generation.

Typical reports generated by the SMASH include:

1. Receipt Register
2. Putaway Log
3. Picking Log
4. SKU Ledger
5. Stock Position
6. Capacity Utilisation
7. Despatch Register

After picking, SKUs are moved to the shipping area. A truck departure schedule is established and orders are released to the floor for loading according to the schedule. SMASH, through the wireless terminals, verifies the proper loading of the product onto the trucks/carriers.

SMASH can create a shipping labels to conform to client specifications.

An operator will close the loading process, thereby generating the shipping documents, and also an Advance Shipping Notice for the destination location.

Every identifiable location in the warehouse including temporary receiving lanes and picking containers is identified with unique bar codes.

SMASH maintains an inventory of all your products with detailed location information. The perpetual financial inventory information on the host system mirrors the physical quantities in the warehouse system.

The system keeps accurate records of every SKU, quantity, FIFO batch, serial numbers, unique storage location, and physical and logical characteristic of each location required to direct the movement, storage and retrieval of product within the warehouse.

The Task Manager (TM) is a tool for controlling and scheduling putaway, picking and shipping functions within a warehouse. It prioritizes the sequence of activities within the available terminals and other resources.. Through TM, the Warehouse Manager is able to selectively order picks from a list of open orders and combine them into one single wave. This allows the manager to optimize manpower resources.

SMASH provides the capability to confirm, count, and verify the inventory in a real-time environment for all functions within the facility. The counting and investigation of discrepancies is closely timed to the reported error condition.