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Today's enterprises experience ongoing SKU increases and ever more complex supply networks. At the same time they face the need to manage obsolescence and warranty costs, regulatory pressures, faster supply chain demands, and customer service needs. Only today's enterprise-wide inventory management systems provide immediate visibility to manage inventory across the supply chain in real time.
Warehouse Management Systems (WMS) and Transportation Management Systems (TMS) offer business critical advantages including: - Inventory Accuracy.
- Reduction of obsolete, expired inventory and lost orders.
- Smarter accounting decisions relating to inventory expenditures.
- Reduced transportation costs.
- Competitive edge with faster customer service response.
- Reduced manual operations.
All of these benefits result in customer satisfaction -- the most valuable benefit. LDSS combines industry experience, advanced technologies and proven methods to deliver effective logistics solutions to support your organization. Whether you're starting from the ground up, trying to resolve a problem or need to improve performance, LDSS can handle the project from planning to implementation.
Cataloging and Inventory Management
Catalog Management Systems (CMS) provide features to meet the complex requirements of the front end of a business, such as customer service, forecasting, marketing and order entry.
LDSS provides cataloging operations with planning and execution of integrated CMS/WMS systems to achieve more timely and accurate inventory control. Implementation of warehouse management systems adds functionality and visibility in the following areas:
- Picking.
- Packing.
- Putaway.
- Replenishment.
- Manifesting, shipping/tracking.
- Real-time inventory control.
- Physical inventory/cycle counting.
- Performance reporting and tracking.
 - Kitting/de-kitting.
The LDSS team supports organizations by evaluating functional requirements, expected transaction volumes, and any special conditions in order to recommend the optimum system design.
Obsolescence Management
Both commercial and military organizations face end-of-life component issues. Today it seems almost impossible to get through design, test and into use before reaching end-of-life of a product's key components. Obsolescence can occur due to any number of factors. Market changes, technological advances, product expirations and reduced value to name a few.
Today's obsolescence management tools can mitigate some of the problems associated with these issues by:
Minimizing impacts of obsolescence to maximize your return on investment. Continuously monitoring product bill-of-materials (BOM's) to avoid costly redesigns due to component obsolescence. Reduction of impacts on product life cycle.
Ideally, obsolescence management should be enacted before Diminishing Manufacturing Sources and Materials Shortages (DMSMS) begin to occur. LDSS will help integrate best practice systems in order to provide quick identification, documentation and resolution of availability problems.
Typical features of these systems include:
- BOM management.
- Alert notification.
- Problem case tracking.
- Report generation.
- Cross platform solution sharing.
- Collaborative work environment.
LDSS offers an objective viewpoint based on decades of experience in warehouse operations and systems. Our company is dedicated to serving he best interest of the customer at all times, and makes recommendations based on industry best practices, not vendor commitments.
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