Warehouse Management System Accellos One for SAP Business One

Accellos One Warehouse

Accellos One is a Warehouse Management System (WMS) that integrates with SAP Business One ERP software for small and midsize companies.

Combining radio frequency and barcode technology with a robust, three-tiered, Internet-based architecture, Accellos One Warehouse delivers a powerful, scalable and flexible real-time warehouse management system that helps you boost productivity, reduce costs, shorten order fulfillment times and increase customer satisfaction.

Accellos One Warehouse integrates seamlessly with many popular accounting/order-entry packages and shipping systems to provide the warehousing link in a total supply chain solution. Accellos offers a feature-rich solution to automate, streamline and verify all your in-warehouse processes. From the receiving dock to the shipping dock, Accellos tracks every movement of stock into, out of, and within the warehouse.

Look for efficiencies throughout your processes. Need to receive full containers? Expanding your operation to multiple warehouses? Gain full multi-warehouse visibility with Accellos. Establish event monitors on key processes that enable Accellos One Warehouse to alert you to any issues that may need your attention. Integrate with the leading suppliers of warehouse automation equipment, such as Pick Lights, Conveyors, Vertical and Horizontal Carousels. Leverage your network of trading partners with EDI integration and an available customer portal. All managed by a web centric wave planning console.

Integration with SAP Business One

Accellos One Warehouse for SAP Business One is a fully integrated solution for SAP Business One that is sold through the SAP partner channel. Accellos One Warehouse for SAP Business One uses the UI and DI API to seamlessly integrate warehouse management and multi-bin functionality into SAP Business One. You cannot tell the difference between SAP Business One and the integrated warehouse functionality. 

Accellos One Warehouse enjoys many successful global installations. From single operator warehouses installed in less than two days to hundreds of warehouse employees in large mid-market distribution companies, Accellos One Warehouse is the only choice for the growing small to medium sized business. Since no two warehouses are alike, Accellos One Warehouse was built for flexibility and scalability. With over 1000 configuration switches, Accellos One Warehouse can deliver feature rich functionality without modifications.

Accellos One Warehouse for SAP Business One is an integrated warehouse management system for small to medium sized manufacturers and distributors. Seamlessly integrated with SAP Business One, Accellos One Warehouse can be scaled to fit the logistic needs of any small-to-mid sized warehouse operation. The XML SOAP interface allows users to work with real-time warehouse information from within Business One. SAP Business One users can dramatically improve inventory accuracy, keep real time inventory by bin location, streamline warehouse operations, process back orders and improve overall customer satisfaction.

Features and Functions

Accellos One Warehouse provides seamlessly integrated add-on functionality to SAP Business One.  Features like multi-bin, advanced allocation and paperless bar code enhanced processes help make SAP Business One the most powerful distribution software on the market today.

Accellos' One Warehouse provides functional enhancements to SAP Business One that include:

• Multi-bin inventory allows the warehouse to optimize stock movement
• Real-time inventory position lets the enterprise make better decisions
• Batch and serial traceability let companies granularly manage their inventory
• Bar code enabled processes enforce accuracy, resulting in increased customer satisfaction and reduced error handling costs.
• Hard allocation reserves product from specific bin locations, ensuring that the right product goes to the right customer.
• Flexible allocation lets the warehouse reserve stock by FIFO, LIFO or expiry date
• Advanced pick and pack screen allows for more flexible pick document release, resulting in optimized workload batches.
• Flexible zone configurations allow the warehouse to efficiently distribute workload between employees and set up quarantine areas.
• Warehouse management software processes like flexible picking styles and replenishment streamline operations and reduce costs.
• Paperless processes automate document input, reducing clerical overhead.
• Pack size handling lets the warehouse meet customer specific pack size ordering requirements, optimize materials handling equipment usage and reduce bin replenishment.
• Labor statistics reporting allows the warehouse to more efficiently manage employees and forecast labor requirements.
• Warehouse efficiency reporting provides benchmarking information for goal setting.

Warehouse Features - Integrations

Accellos One Warehouse acts as the hub of your supply chain solution, integrating accounting/order and shipping software systems, electronic data interchange (EDI) systems, Crystal Reports software, radio frequency and barcode hardware, and warehouse automation equipment.

Accounting/order-entry/ERP systems

Through interfaces developed in-house and by third-party vendors, Accellos integrates with various accounting/financial systems, including but not limited to:

• Microsoft Dynamics: GP, SL, NAV, AX
• Sage Software: Accpac, Sage Pro, MAS 90, MAS 200, MAS 500
• SAP: Business One

The accounting system maintains order, product, customer and vendor data and downloads it to Accellos, while Accellos One Warehouse maintains inventory data and uploads it to the accounting system.

Shipping systems

With varying levels of integration, Accellos interfaces with shipping systems such as ClipperShip, UPS Worldship, FedEx, Canpar and Purolator. Accellos WMS sends order, carton, addressee and tracking data to the shipping system and receives back carrier, service, and shipment cost data, which it then passes on to the accounting system.

Crystal Reports

Accellos One Warehouse interfaces with Crystal Reports to print bills of lading, invoices, packslip and other documentation on laser printers. Web Dispatch’s Reports module also displays custom-defined Crystal reports.

EDI systems

Accellos generates all data required in standard advance shipping notices (ASNs) in standard EDI format.

Radio frequency (RF)/wireless devices

Accellos One Warehouse interfaces with Symbol, Intermec, PSC, AML and Dolphin handheld access points and handheld computers/barcode scanners used by warehouse staff to record movements of stock into, out of and inside the warehouse. Handheld clients connect to the Accellos One Warehouse server via Telnet sessions.

Barcode label printers

Accellos interfaces with Zebra and Intermec barcode printers to print product labels, bin labels, and shipping and courier labels, among many others.

Warehouse automation equipment

Accellos assists in materials handling by integrating with various types of equipment used in the warehouse, such as scales, cubing machines, conveyor belts and carousels.

Warehouse Features - Modules

Wireless Picking

Designed to move paper-based picking processes into the wireless world.  This core module supports multiple styles of RF picking, picking stations, split pack-sizes, batch-pick and repack, shipment labels, and warehouse packing slips. Pick bins are replenished using Hot Replenishment, which is the process of requesting that inventory be replenished to pick bins to meet current sales order requirements.

Wireless Receiving

Designed to move paper-based receiving processes into the wireless world. This core module supports paperless check-in, product and carton labeling. It also supports non-PO receiving, for warehouses that allow receipt of products into the warehouse that do not appear on a purchase order.

STOCK Locator

Designed to provide visibility into the physical location of goods in the warehouse facilitating the movement of those goods within the warehouse.

Web Dispatch

This is the web-based user interface for Accellos, accessed with Internet Explorer from any client PC. The Web Dispatch core module provides reporting capabilities to monitor daily warehouse operations in real time, and to generate historical reports. Web Dispatch also displays sales, work and purchase orders in the warehouse. To allow warehouse managers to control order processing in the warehouse via Web Dispatch, you should purchase the Order Management module.

Order Management

This module allows you to plan your warehouse activities, allocate stock to specific customers according to your corporate policies, and manage your fill rate and backorders.

Multi-Zone

A zone is an area within a physical location where inventory is stored or different activities are performed. A zone serves to organize stock and warehouse staff workloads. The Multi Zone module allows you define up to 26 zones. This module enables zone picking, pick and pass picking, multi-zone simultaneous and sequential picking, and replenishment by zone.

EOL Workflow, UPS Domectic & DHL Domestic

This module provides the ability to launch definable workflows upon the completion of sales order process.  It ships with predefined workflows that generate Bill of Lading documents, integration to the both the UPS and DHL provided shipping systems for Domestic US shipments. 

Lots/Serial/Expiry

This module allows attributes to be assigned to a product. An attribute is characteristic of a product that differentiates it from other products of the same type, such as lot number, serial number, expiry date, color, size… The attribute number appears in a field after the main product number, separated by a character delimiter such as a slash. This module tracks attributes through the warehouse and provides advanced allocation and inventory controls for attributes.

Advanced Replenishment

This module supports Advanced Replenishment, which is the process of requesting that inventory be replenished from overstock bins to pick bins before products are actually required to fill sales orders. Warehouses are configured to use one of two types of advance replenishment: min/max, or days on hand. Min/max replenishment is based on a predefined minimum quantity of product that must be in pick bins. Days on hand replenishment is based on a defined minimum number of days that the product must be available in pick bins. When a dispatcher runs the Advanced Replenishment function in Web Dispatch, the system issues replenishment requests for bins that are found to be below this minimum.

Kitting

A kit is a unique product composed of a number of other products, sold as a single unit. The kitting functionality enables the collecting and assembling of individual products to create a new, saleable product unit.

Container Receiving

This module enables the process of receiving products into the warehouse against the inbound manifest rather than individual purchase orders. This simplifies check-in, improves accuracy, and speeds your operations. This module also provides the ability to break outbound sales orders into deliveries.

License Plates

This module provides a tool to assign License Plates to groups of products. License Plates can contain similar or different items.  It is often convenient to track serial numbers by License Plates. Pre-pack assortments in License Plates can be allocated and picked even though the order is for the individual items.

Carton Splitting

Using dimensional data and standard boxes, this module enables the splitting of a “pick-and-pack” order into cartons before releasing it for picking. This facilitates picking to final carton in many environments.

Putaway/Slotting

This module enables directed putaway, which allows a putaway driver to search for an appropriate bin to which to move a product during Receiving, Fill Bins, and Direct Move functions. Suggestions provided to the user are based on empty bins, or current bin locations. The module also provides slotting reports to improve productivity.

Multi-Location/Site Transfer

The Multi-Location/ Site Transfer module allows a single Accellos installation to manage multiple locations, controls visibility between locations, and provides tools for efficiently.

RMAs

This module enables Returned Materials Authorizations (RMAs), which allows customers to return products to the warehouse. It automatically generates purchase order for the returned goods, with the appropriate RMA codes.

Packaging

The packaging functionality supports a warehouse with substantial repackaging operations. It helps prioritize and manage the repackaging lines.

Carousels/Conveyors

This module supports various brands of horizontal carousels and vertical lift modules (VLM), plus provides support for conveyor automation.

Multi-Company/3PL

This functionality supports distribution centers that service multiple companies or are third-party logistic (3PL) providers, and multi-company warehouses. 3PLs are specialized ‘outsource’ warehouse operators.

Multi-Carrier Shipping Toolkit

This module provides a standard set of interface points that can be used to integrate popular multi-carrier shipping systems like ClipperShip and Imagine.

Web Order Entry

This module enables purchase orders to be entered into Accellos One Warehouse through Web Dispatch. Web order entry is used by warehouses that do not have a host system, by third-party logistics (3PL) providers that do not use a single host system, or to provide a web order-entry portal suitable for B2B sales.

RFID Toolkit

The RFID Toolkit provides a standard set of integration points that can be used by an RFID middleware provider to develop specific RFID enabled functions within the warehouse.