Modula warehouse management system for the logistic and 3PL industry

Clear, tidy, logical storage of products for online sale is essential for those working in the e-commerce business. Some products have fast turnover, others sell slowly and occasionally, and yet others have long preparation times: all these operating modes can be simplified and controlled with Modula vertical warehouses and WMS software. With Modula vertical warehouses, goods in trays can be divided in the most effective way for order preparation. Thanks to dividers and partitions, just one tray can contain a very large number of articles, uniquely identified by the software mapping. With a vertical warehouse, all the material is in the same place and the operators no longer have to walk backwards and forwards unnecessarily. Picking and refilling take place in the picking bay, which is at an ideal height for operator ergonomics. Trays may be delivered to the bay either by manual call (using a touchscreen console) or automatically, with remote control. In this case, tray delivery is piloted by the WMS Software connected to ERP systems. At the end of each picking or refill operation, confirmation of the operation is requested, enabling the warehouse to proceed with the workflow or update stocks if equipped with WMS software. Picking is carried out by calling a tray from the touchscreen panel of a console called the Copilot: the tray is delivered to the bay at operator height, the operation is confirmed and the system automatically updates the stocks. All stocks are therefore easily under control.

What’s more, with the double bay system the next item can reach the bay while the previous one is being processed, considerably increasing speed and obviously meaning that the operator no longer has to move, since everything is in the same place.

With Modula, you can eliminate stock differences with a click

A customer’s disappointment if he does not receive an order or realises that your best-selling product is not available, or gets an email telling him that he will not receive a product after ordering it, can all be avoided with good warehouse procedure management. If you add a Modula automated warehouse to your company workflow, you can easily integrate it with your software, whichever it may be, enabling you to:

• regularly check incoming and outgoing materials and update warehouse stocks;
• manage stock more tidily, with subdivision by different parameters, such as models, sizes or colours;
• manage or predict minimal stock levels more easily, preventing the sale of products very close to stock-out;
• monitor theoretical stock levels and align them with real or desired levels, also through stock-taking checks;
• monitor the alignment between physical and system stock

These operations allow optimal management of orders and just-in-time management of the system as they are processed.