In addition to Warehouse Management, StockTrack PLUS has options for shop floor data collection and stock tracking. ATMS systems are used to bridge the gap between the shop floor and a company's business system. ATMS has interfaced to business systems including SAP, Oracle, MFG/PRO, PECAS and PRMS.

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Features include:

• Paperless production control
• Real time production and despatch recording
• Material movement recording (including pallet, reel, coil)
• Run time, set up time and downtime recording
• Material usage and wastage reporting
• Work in progress identification and control
• Productivity and utilisation information
• Traceability and quality control

For case studies which illustrate the benefits that can be achieved using ATMS Stock Tracking and Data Collection system look at Walkers Snack Foods and Arjo Wiggins customer profiles.

Furthermore StockTrack PLUS and DataHub form part of the GlobalTrack supply chain visibility solution being developed by ATMS

Global Track Modules already include remote labelling and remote warehousing. The RemLab remote labelling module has already been ordered by several ATMS clients and will be rolled out to several dozen manufacturing and logistics companies in the Far East and Eastern Europe in the next few months. Sites in Bangladesh and China have already gone live. Further roll outs are happening in Lithuania, Croatia, and across China. The system is of course fully multilingual. The ATMS overseas offices in Dubai, China, Manila and Singapore have all helped with the internationalisation.

The system links customers in the UK and elsewhere, typically with suppliers and logistics providers in the Far East and Eastern Europe across the Internet. Suppliers have full visibility of production orders and call off requirements. As the supplier works on each order he uses the system to produce unique carton labels for each carton produced. This in turn provides production information in almost real time back to the UK customer. The system can also be used to confirm carton dimensions (cube) and weight; conformance checks such as pack size, quality measurements etc can also be carried out and verified. The system can provide full traceability information and control over shelf life; expiry dates and best before information can be recoded. Full use is made of the GS1 global standards for labelling and identification.

As each carton is loaded into a container for sea freight or into a unit load device for air freight it can be scanned. In this way an electronic pre-advice, packing list and manifest can be created, linking the load to the container or ULD number. Further downstream the shipment can then be tracked simply by reference to the container / ULD number. On arrival in the UK warehouse container stripping is speeded up significantly through the provision of accurate advanced shipment notification (ASN) information.

The system is proving to have benefits in terms of improved visibility of production and shipments, improved traceability, reduction in grey market / counterfeit issues, reduced labour, improved accuracy, reduced errors.

Remote Warehousing (RemStock)

• RemStock is an intelligent mobile application that runs on a wide variety of mobile devices.
• RemStock supports all the usual warehouse processes receipt, put away, pick and despatch.
• It typically uses GPRS for communications but can seamlessly transfer to Wifi where this exists.
• Can be used in any warehousing environment, warehouses with no communications infrastructure and even warehouses with no power.
• Allows companies to take on temporary warehouses as and when required.
• Also allows small outlying stores to be controlled, even if they are not manned.
• The system makes full use of GS1 standards for labelling and identification.
• The system is of course fully multilingual.

Remote Labelling (RemLab)

• The system links customers in the UK and elsewhere, typically with suppliers and logistics providers in the Far East and Eastern Europe across the Internet.
• Suppliers have full visibility of production orders and call off requirements.
• It typically uses GPRS for communications but can seamlessly transfer to Wifi where this exists.
• Can be used in any warehousing environment, warehouses with no communications infrastructure and even warehouses with no power.
• Allows companies to take on temporary warehouses as and when required.
• Also allows small outlying stores to be controlled, even if they are not manned.
• The system makes full use of GS1 standards for labelling and identification.
• The system is of course fully multilingual.