Warehouse Control System acts as the “traffic police” for your warehouse or distribution center to keep everything in order.

A warehouse control system (WCS) is an application for organizing the processes and workflows in a fulfillment or distribution center. The WCS creates an ecosystem by coordinating with all the material handling equipment like conveyors, DWS systems, put to light systems, print & apply systems and sorters. Whenever a task needs to be accomplished, the WCS creates a logical workflow and directs all the equipment to work collectively to achieve the desired result.

WMS (Planning): This controls the incoming and outgoing inventories and performs tasks like receiving orders from the customers, assigning inventory, creating invoices and shipping labels etc. It interacts and exchanges the details with WCS, but on a non-real time basis.

WCS (Control): This is the main traffic cop which manages and interfaces data on real time basis. It receives the data from the WMS, directs and coordinates with systems like conveyors, sorters, print & apply systems to accomplish the tasks.

WES (Execution): It’s a hybrid system which performs some combined tasks of WMS and WES. The WES organise sequences and coordinates between the man and machine to move items inside the warehouse.