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Cost Justification: Barcode System Meets WMS

Here's a summary of some of the key areas to consider when cost justifying Barcode System and WMS systems for logistics applications, along with common ranges of savings over presystem levels.

Increased Labor Productivity: 20~60%

--Reduction in manual key entry

--Few handwritten forms

--Less clerical time spent one processing and softing paper documents

--Reduction in travel time (as a result of task interleaving and travel path optimization)

--Reduction in search time

--Order batching (combining picks from multiple orders at a single location)

--Gains from better management owing to significantly improved productivity tracking

--Reduced materials handling(as a result of cross docking, direct putaway without staging, and so on)

--Elimination of idle picking time waiting for replenishment

--Elimination of double checking processes

--Less time spent correcting errors

--Immediate system direction versus slower and more variable user task selection

Inventory Reduction: 5~20%

--Reduced safety stock requirements

--Faster inventory turns

--Reduced levels of lost or uncontrolled inventory

--Reduced inventory obsolescence through tight enforcement of FIFO processes

Space Utilization Improvement: 10~30%

--Reduced inventory for more usable space

--Reduction in honeycombing resulting from putaway or replenishment

--Ability to use mixed SKU storage locations

--Capacity to use differential cube storage locations

--Reduced shipping and receiving staging requirements

--System-directed rewarehousing

Picking/Shipping Accuracy: 99% or higher

--Reduction of costs associated with inaccurate picks or shipments

--Real-time validation of picking, packing, and shipping transactions

Other Savings:

--Significantly reduced levels of customer charge-backs for error or failure to meet compliance shipping requirements

--Reduced cost for or elimination of physical inventories

--Need for fewer vehicles, reducing truck purchases and leasing and maintenance expenses

--Improved management productivity

--Improved performance measurement reporting