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WMS

Meaning in logistics & supply chain, with examples

abbreviationCommon term

In logistics & supply chain, WMS means: Short for warehouse management system: software that controls warehouse operations such as receiving, put-away, stock locations, picking and shipping.

In Turkish: depo yönetim sistemi, WMS

How it is used

Works with handheld scanners and with the company's ERP system. People talk about implementing, going live with or upgrading a WMS, and about the stock 'in the WMS' compared with what is physically on the shelf.

Example sentences

  1. Since the new WMS went live, picking errors have dropped by 40 percent.

  2. The WMS shows 120 units in this location, but the shelf is empty.

Common collocations

  • implement a WMS
  • WMS go-live
  • cloud-based WMS
  • WMS integration
  • warehouseA large building where goods, materials or products are received, stored and prepared for shipment.
  • pickingThe warehouse task of taking the right items in the right quantities from their storage locations to fill customer orders.
  • put-awayThe step after receiving in which goods are moved from the dock to their storage locations and recorded in the system.
  • TMSShort for transportation management system: software used to plan, book, carry out and track shipments and to manage carriers and freight costs.
  • barcodeA pattern of printed lines or squares that a scanner reads to identify a product, package or pallet quickly and without typing.

More terms: Warehousing

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