BellHawk Industrial Warehouse Management System (WMS) Capabilities

With the optional Warehouse Management System modules BellHawk adds the following capabilities to its inventory, asset, container, and other materials tracking software:

• Ability to enter or import purchase orders, including the ability to receive materials against those purchase orders, and to export the receipts back to an accounting or ERP system.
• One-scan receipt of containers against Advanced Shipment Notices.
• Record the put-away of the materials in multiple locations.
• Ability to enter or import customer ship orders, including ability to record shipments against those sjip orders and to export shipments to an ERP or accounting system.
• Ability to create make-to-order work-orders based on ship order line items.
• Ability to pick materials for work orders, for move tickets, and for ship orders.
• Fetching materials to production operation, including kit picking.
• Returning of materials to stock from production or shipments.
• Ability to record the packing of materials ready for shipment and generate packing slips.
• Ability to record materials as they are staged and loaded onto trucks, including ability to generate bills of lading.
• Ability to generate Advanced Shipment Notices for sending by EDI or other means.
• Ability to do cycle counting and inventory auditing.

These capabilities are available as part of separate optional modules or they can all be purchased as part of the BellHawk Warehouse Management Systems (WMS) bundle.

BellHawk Warehouse Management System Applications

• Warehouses and Stock Rooms associated with Manufacturing plants.
• Industrial Distributions Centers with secondary operations such as repack, relabeling, kitting, and assembly where the products are shipped to Distribution Centers or direct to manufacturing plants, engineering, or construction sites..
• Labeling of nested containers with SSCC barcodes and generation of ASN data for supply chain integration
• Project-focused Make-to-Order, Engineer-to-Order, Repair, Refurbishment, Contracting and Construction organizations.
• Food, Pharmaceutical, and Medical processing and distribution, where materials traceability is required.

BellHawk Warehouse Management System Architecture

• Website plus SQL Server database that runs on a Windows Server computer.
• Web-browser interface can be used on a wide variety of barcode data collection devices including wireless mobile computers, tablets and PCs equipped with barcode scanners.
• Inventory status can be viewed in real-time over Internet using mobile phones.
• Prints barcode labels on demand in customer specified formats.
• Tracks operations at multiple geographically distributed warehouses and stock rooms.
• Interfaces available for automated data exchange with ERP, accounting, and E-Commerce systems.
• Interfaces available for supply chain integration, including preparing Advanced Shipment Notice data by for transmission by EDI.
• Interfaces available for weighing scales, RFID portals, and other Internet-of-Things devices.

BellHawk WMS Tracks Inventory by

• Nested container, location, facility, yard, customer site, in-transit, and in service trucks.
• Supplier, Make, Model, Physical Origin, and Lot number as well as serial numbers on equipment.
• Who owns the Inventory: Customers, Vendors, US Government, or organization running the Warehouse.
• Project that this inventory was purchased for to avoid mixing and misuse of project materials.
• Age and Expiration date plus quality control status: waiting, passed, failed inspection, needs material review.
• User defined attributes such as width, length, color, hardness, and heat number.
• Hazardous materials category as well as special storage requirements: freezer, refrigerator, secure locations.

Special Features of BellHawk WMS

• Tracking by length, width, size, color, weight and multiple user-defined units of measure.
• FDA, USDA, HACCP, HIPPA, and CFR 21 Part 11 compliant.
• Easy to use for material handlers who are not computer literate and use English as a second language.

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