AccellosOne: Integrating a WMS with an ERP the Right Way
Your Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and Warehouse Management System (WMS) are natural partners. Have you taken into account the criticality of integrating a WMS with an ERP?
You implement an ERP system in order to achieve a seamless flow within your business. Materials, cash, overhead, returns, transfers, purchase orders, and customer orders should all have instant visibility through near-effortless execution.
A successful ERP deployment makes all of this possible. However, when it comes down to it, your WMS is the connecting point between your customers and your physical product. If you do not orchestrate your financial inventory and your physical inventory through unified systems, are you really getting the maximum value out of either investment or serving your customer base as well as you can?
Why So Many WMS-ERP Integrations Fail
It is understandable why some companies do not integrate WMS with ERP – it is highly prone to failure. WMS and ERP implementation failures are usually due to poor solution provider choices, where they do not understand your requirements and needs. Many are running into “operational disruption” upon bringing the systems into production, and often “cannot perform simple tasks like shipping products at go-live.”
It is highly likely that this elevated error rate is due to faulty integrations with a WMS. Most companies integrate through an ad hoc and rushed approach. While ERP systems often allow integrations through rich APIs and specialised interfaces, it takes a great deal of expertise in order to adequately perform these integrations and account for all relevant scenarios. It is technically possible to perform an integration in 25 hours, but such an effort will yield results too basic and error-prone to be of any use.
A successful WMS-ERP integration entails:
- Careful testing to prevent irreversible data corruption
- The ability to tailor to a wide range of customer requirements
- A broad range of deep functions carefully vetted to account for the specialised business logic of the WMS
- The ability to simplify reporting and support tasks
Why AccellosOne Solves Your Integration Problems
It would take weeks and weeks to begin to approach the level of quality needed for a truly effective WMS-ERP integration. It is fortunate that you can have these capabilities in no time with AccellosOne by HighJump.
AccellosOne integrations meets all the criteria for a complete and best-of-breed solution, which we defined above. It goes beyond this as well, with:
- Seamless integration with your leading ERP system, EDI system, and local carriers and shipping systems
- Flexible handhelds to help you effectively accomplish key tasks such as picking, locating stock, and expiry date and serial tracking
- Complete visibility into the status of your warehouse operation to help with order allocations, simple warehouse transfers and management reporting
Contact us to learn how you can achieve a truly modern and productive integration with AccellosOne.
