Resource management maximizes the efficiency of warehouse processes by:
Facilitating the management and distribution of work via queues
● Enabling the execution of work by resources in a radio frequency (RF) and non-RF environment
Optimizing the selection of warehouse orders for resources requesting work
● Enabling effective monitoring and controlling of resources
The assignment of resources to queues enables focused management and distribution of work in the warehouse.
For more information, see Queue.
Resources can execute work via RF and non-RF transactions.
For more information about RF transactions, see Standard RF Functions.
Warehouse orders (WOs) can either be manually assigned to a resource by a warehouse manager, or automatically assigned by the system.
For more information, see Assignment of Warehouse Order to Resource.
Resources that require system-guided work are offered the most appropriate WOs. Here a number of factors are taken into consideration, for example, the mode, latest start date (LSD), execution priorities, assigned queues, qualification of resource type, and WO status.
For more information, see Warehouse Order Selection.
Warehouse managers can use the warehouse management monitor to do the following:
● Analyze resource workload
● Monitor WO execution by resources
● Send messages to resources
● Logon and logoff resources
● Assign resource groups to queues and remove this assignment
● Create and maintain users and resources
● Change the queue of a WO
● Change the LSD of a WO
For more information, see Monitor Methods.
See also:
Resource Management Using Radio Frequency.