September 4, 2024
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In the dynamic world of warehouse management, efficient order fulfillment is a strategic imperative that has become a competitive weapon to provide enhanced efficiency, greater order accuracy, and lower cost. This is where warehouse order orchestration comes into play.
Order orchestration refers to coordinating and managing various activities and resources involved in fulfilling customer orders across the supply chain. It involves synchronizing and optimizing the flow of orders, inventory, and information to ensure efficient and timely order fulfillment.
Order orchestration differs from traditional order management, which focuses on the front end (from order capture to shipment). Order orchestration works behind the scenes to automate the back-end operations related to fulfillment.
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Warehouse order orchestration is pivotal in streamlining core order management operations while ensuring order fulfillment processes use the most efficient travel approaches with available equipment options. Here’s why it matters:
Warehouse orchestration software platforms have emerged as the leading technology to most effectively manage order orchestration by providing a seamless, end-to-end warehouse execution automation platform that can be quickly adapted to respond to dynamic change. The order orchestration platform has become almost a superset of the capabilities of traditional warehouse execution and control systems.
It automates the entire fulfillment process, from order receipt to shipping, orchestrating all the tasks required to fulfill orders. It also provides real-time visibility into labor tracking and other performance metrics.
The modern platform can use AI and advanced logic to better manage a multitude of workflows, all without traditional hard coding. These modern order orchestration platforms can also provide AI decision-making to optimize autonomous mobile robot (AMR) robotics usage to help reduce warehouse movements and deadhead activities.
The platform plays a critical role in enabling multiple robotic solutions to operate seamlessly with traditional warehouse automation. It creates a holistic platform that is at the forefront of future integration and AMR robotics decision-making.
As noted by Dwight Klappich, research vice president and fellow with Gartner, “Customers want integration and orchestration, but they don’t want to be locked in for the next 20 years.” Customers need a holistic solution that enables them to adapt to the future.
The solution is available, with advanced platforms such as such Numina Group’s RDS™ Warehouse Execution and Control System (WES-WCS), which includes built-in orchestration, offers flexible integration across the various robotic suppliers, and eliminates the need for traditional hard-coded and rigid one-off custom solutions.
Numina’s RDS WES-WCS Order Orchestration Platform bridges the gap between the ERP and WMS systems to optimize order flow, supervision, and execution of material handling equipment and automation technologies across multiple providers.
RDS supports a wide variety of workflow tasks such as picking, put-away, replenishment, order consolidation, cycle counting, shipping sortation, and pallet building with RDS Victory Voice™, technology providing voice-directed picking support to guide workers’ tasks.
RDS Voyage AI provides customers with advanced business rule-building capabilities that empower the warehouse management staff to create their own business rules within RDS to increase worker productivity while helping reduce operating costs quantitatively.
Voyage uses best-in-class AI-driven business rules that optimize warehouse execution and overall robotic utilization. Voyage AI goes beyond previous-generation execution and control solutions by eliminating typical software coding with micro-services to provide advanced business rule and order release logic with modern AI capabilities.
As Gartner states, “By 2026, more than 50% of companies deploying intralogistics robots will have an orchestration platform.”
Numina Group’s RDS WES-WCS Order Orchestration with Voyager AI provides the software solution needed to tie everything together, no matter which robotic solution or combination of solutions is selected for the customer’s operational needs. This flexibility will only grow in importance.
The Numina Group, with its experience in more than 1,000 unique customer installations, has been at the forefront of the emerging order orchestration platform market. Our project experience with various AMR and robotics solutions has shown our team that the right way forward is to embrace this open strategy with our customers and ensure we protect their future decision options for any robotic solution.
Our best-in-class solution offerings cover warehouse automation design services, optimizing system performance, automation, and robotics integration with the latest technologies to eliminate inefficiencies and excessive labor use while increasing overall task accuracy with a strong focus on providing cost-effective solutions with a strong focus on engaging with mid-to-large-sized enterprises.
Get started today and learn how the Numina Group can help your business grow and prosper with an RDS WES-WCS Order Orchestration Platform and warehouse analysis.
The Numina Group
10331 Werch Drive
Woodridge, IL 60517
630-343-2600
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The Numina Group
10331 Werch Drive
Woodridge, IL 60517
630-343-2600
