| Business Process |
Specific
Event |
What Happens |
Product End of Life |
Product has met the date threshold to move to freezer |
Alert record pops up on the supervisor’s WebAlert screen running in WebView. An email is sent to both the supervisor and the office staff. |
Timed Blast Freezer
|
Product has remained for specified duration in blast freezer |
An entry is made to a special activity report that is queued to run at the start of each new shift. An alert record pops up on the supervisor’s WebAlert screen running in WebView. An email is sent to both the supervisor and the office staff. |
Product Expiration |
Product is about to expire |
An entry is made to a special activity report that is queued to run at the start of each new shift. An alert record pops up on the supervisor’s WebAlert screen running in WebView. An email is sent to both the supervisor and the office staff. |
Shipment Close |
Shipment has shipped |
Email subscribers, AND Auto accumulate stat's for on-time shipment Key Performance Indicators. |
| PO Receipt Arrival |
Receipt from specific vendor |
Try to allocate inventory to (1) outbound orders in picking if crossdocking, (2) ship-complete orders needing that last |
| Putaway/Move |
Suggested location is full |
Add a cycle count task to Task Manager. |
| Cycle Count |
Expected quantity not there |
Create count audit task on this location. |
| Picking |
Quantity expected in bin is short |
Direct warehouse worker to another bin to complete task. Automatically create the cycle counts for ALL bins in the warehouse that contain this inventory item. |
| Shipment Staging |
Shipment is complete |
Automatically print BOL and other documents, and then email them to the appropriate people. |
| Invoice Mailing |
Pending Charges have been reviewed, and have just been posted |
Turn every invoice into a PDF for a group of specified customers, and then send an email with an invoice attachment for them. Send the other invoices not going electronically out to your standard invoice printer. Create a report showing who received electronic copies. CC an internal email address a copy of the electronic invoices. |
| Min/Max Levels Achieved |
Product has reached a minimum level or a maximum level. |
Either of these situations can be a warning to your customer to either stop shipping any more of this product, or that they need to replenish your warehouse facility. This is a value-add that offers differentiation between you and your nearby competitors, showing you can go that extra mile for your customer. |
| Pack and Reindex |
System needs to have its files reindexed every week. |
This is a chore that most people are loathe to do – usually someone has to stay late, or your operations get off to a late start because you’re waiting for reindexing to happen. Having an automated process enables your business to have greater up times, while ensuring your data integrity is solid. |
| Product Hold |
Product needs to go on hold, or just was put on hold. |
There are certain conditions that should force a product to go on holds: Inspection, Quarantine, etc. Sometimes, these should always occur as soon as product moves into the facility. We can now trigger a hold alert to the appropriate person if the hold was not done at time of inbound. Also, whenever a product is put on hold, we can alert someone, advising them of the action and the date. |
| Administrative Change Logging |
Log a change to the administration files when a change has been made. |
We can track changes to your critical files such as billing, products, etc, anytime someone adds, edits and/or deletes something out of them. In this way, you’ll always know when something was done and by whom, so you have more accountability in your office. |
