Distribution center management system

Distribution Center Management System (DCMS) is a proprietary end-user warehouse management system (WMS), designed to track the activities performed in a distribution center (DC)/warehouse. It is created and owned by a private company called Eclipse Systems Pvt Ltd. It automates the entire process flow of receiving, managing and shipping goods to customers from the warehouse. DCMS solutions are designed for both large and small scale businesses. In January 2015, the product went open source.

DCMS uses a modular design featuring the following modules:

• receiving
• putaway
• order processing
• replenishment
• pulling
• restocking
• picking
• validation
• sorting
• shipping

Features of a DCMS also include:^[1]

• crate management
• supervisory control
• reports
• works in both RF-based and paper-based environments
• third party software integration

DCMS helps warehouses to remove the risk of stock pile-up, stock outs, pending orders and loss of sales due to customer dissatisfaction. It dramatically improves the warehouse productivity, helps strengthening customer relationships, reduce operating expenses, and increase warehouse and distribution efficiencies. Due to its modular design, DCMS can be easily customized for various clients as per their requirements. WMS is an intelligent investment that will instantly boost accuracy in the warehouse operations and yields long term financial benefits.

Contemporary inventory management strategies such as JIT (Just In Time), ECR (Efficient Customer Response) and QR (Quick Response) demonstrate potential applications for DCMS. Enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems can be replaced by DCMS due to its functionality fit, knowledge base, frequent updates, integration, and adaptive capacities.

DCMS is based on Microsoft Technology with an Oracle as database. It uses web-based three tier architecture that provides a standard suite of warehousing applications. DCMS can also be installed on cloud and used as SaaS. DCMS provides web-based multi-department reporting.

• Manufacturing resource planning
• Shipping list
• Pick and pack
• Cycle count
• Voice-directed warehousing
• Automated storage and retrieval system
• Wave picking

• Maida Napolitano (1 Apr 2008). "Warehousing and Distribution Center Management: The cross-dock revolution—are you in or out?". Logistics Management. Archived from the original on 30 Mar 2010.