KÖRBER SUPPLY CHAIN SOFTWARE & STARWARE
"As the supply chain landscape evolves, Körber’s partnership with Starware represents a next step in empowering businesses to transition from legacy operations to future-ready
solutions," said Carl D’Costa from Körber. "By combining our strengths in automation, flexibility and scalability, this collaboration will enable our customers to drive operational efficiency and achieve sustainable success in an increasingly dynamic global
market. We are excited to collaborate with Starware, whose extensive experience, global presence, and innovative approach complement Körber’s commitment to delivering advanced supply chain solutions".
PRODUCTS
WMS Warehouse advantage
Körber Supply Chain Software offers a highly flexible portfolio of WMS solutions, backed by a deep understanding of supply chain processes and customer needs.
The solutions can be adapted to the size and complexity of a customer’s warehouse and tailored to their exact business requirements – from small operations to large, highly automated distribution centers. To further improve customers' end-to-end processes, we can integrate their WMS with their ERP and other supply chain solutions, such as transportation or yard management.
Capabilities
- Integrated resource and labor management
Enhanced inventory management
- Streamlined order processing and wave management
- Advanced shipping management and staging
- Add-on software modules for incremental functionality
Built-in returns management
Flexible deployment options: Cloud or on-premises
Order Management System (OMS)
Körber's Order Management System (OMS) is designed to streamline and optimize the order fulfillment process for businesses while reducing fulfilment costs and empowering associates to truly delight customers. It acts as a centralised platform that handles all aspects of order processing, from order capture to delivery, ensuring efficiency, accuracy, and visibility across the supply chain.
CAPABILITIES
- Order Capture & Validation: Automatically captures orders from multiple channels, such as e-commerce, stores, or customer service, and validates them for accuracy and completeness.
- Inventory Management: Provides real-time visibility into inventory levels across warehouses, ensuring that stock is properly allocated to meet order demands.
- Order Routing: Uses advanced algorithms to determine the most efficient warehouse or fulfilment center to ship from, reducing shipping times and costs.
- Flexible Fulfilment Options: Supports a variety of fulfilment methods, including ship-to-store, direct-to-consumer, and drop shipping.
- Scalability: Designed to handle varying order volumes, from small businesses to large enterprises.
- Reporting & Analytics: Provides detailed insights into order status, inventory levels, and fulfilment performance
- Returns Management: Facilitates easy returns and exchanges, integrating with inventory systems to handle reverse logistics smoothly.
Warehouse Control System (WCS)
The Warehouse Control System (WCS) serves as a centralised hub for managing and controling your entire material handling equipment (MHE) portfolio. It integrates seamlessly across multiple automation technologies and vendors, enabling you to coordinate operations and optimise the flow of material across the facility.
Capabilities
- Centralised MHE Management: Provides unified control for all material handling equipment.
- Seamless Integration: Works across multiple automation technologies and vendors for smooth operation.
- Real-Time Visibility: Tracks equipment performance and material flow in real time.
- Material Flow Optimization: Improves the efficiency and speed of material movement throughout the facility.
- Dynamic Routing: Ensure continued material flow in case of bottlenecks and device failures.
- Scalability: Supports warehouses of all sizes, from small operations to large, whether fully or partially automated.
- Error Reduction: Enhances system reliability by detecting and responding to equipment issues quickly.
Warehouse Design and Simulation (CLASS)
With Körber’s warehouse design software, you can easily test changes in the warehouse using a digital model, without devoting time and resources to making those changes in the real world.
The intuitive system requires minimal data input on your part, and will quickly highlight the areas of your warehouse that urgently need your attention, without any business disruptions.
Capabilities
User-guided processes for creating/recreating your warehouse, covering:
- Layout
- Manpower
- Equipment
- Storage systems
- Workstations
Review any changes to see how they would impact your operation.
These changes can include:
- Adding technologies like AMR and automation
- Changing the location or number of truck bays
- Increasing the number of orders processed
Inventory Slotting
Korber's Slotting Solution utilises data science to enhance inventory placements within manually operated warehouse storage areas, improving the efficiency of order picking and replenishment processes. It utilzes item master information, warehouse layout data, historical and projected product demand, combined with a comprehensive set of customer-specific rules, to optimise SKU placement.
- Optimised SKU Placement: Uses data-driven analysis to place products in optimal locations for efficient picking and replenishment based on product velocity, slot constraints and pick paths.
- Layout Customisation: Tailors slotting based on warehouse layout, operational flow, and storage configurations.
- Demand Forecasting: Incorporates historical and projected demand to adjust the right placements.
- Improved Picking Efficiency: Before and after comparisons of multiple slotting scenarios
- Flexible Slotting: Re-slotting for the whole warehouse or for individual zones ,and support of multiple strategies
- Cost Reduction: Minimises handling costs by optimising inventory location and reducing stock movement.
- Enhanced Productivity: Boosts overall warehouse productivity through intelligent inventory distribution.