Tasklet Factory’s Mobile WMS is a software application for Microsoft Dynamics ERP-Systems Dynamics 365 BC/NAV and Dynamics 365 FO/AX. But what is WMS, and what do the three letters stand for?
WMS stands for Warehouse Management System and is designed to support every work process in a warehouse, including Receive, Put Away, Pick, Count, Move, Adjust Quantity, etc. A warehouse management system is developed especially for inventory management and is often an addition to your ERP-System.
Today the warehouse plays a more central part in the company because of increased competition, and with that, the demand for a WMS-System has naturally increased. Likewise, global e-commerce also contributes to businesses becoming more expense oriented.
The choice often lies between choosing a standard WMS-System or a custom-made WMS-System. For us, there is no doubt. You should choose a standard system where it makes sense, but at the same time make sure that the standard WMS system you choose can be adapted (customized to a certain extent). You can do that with Tasklet Factory’s Mobile WMS barcode scanning solution.
This makes sense if you take the strategy that Microsoft has chosen into consideration. They have since 2013 upgraded their ERP solution with a new version every year. Therefore, it is central to easily be able to upgrade your WMS system equivalent without notable costs and trouble.
We’re often asked if it pays off to invest in a warehouse management system if you only are a few employees in the warehouse. To this, we have ascertained that regardless of size, there will always be a profit in acquiring a warehouse management system. Just the profit from going away from paper is both cost-saving moneywise, but also environmentally. To this come the advantages that come with satisfied customers. There is nothing worse than sending the wrong product to a customer. Not just the expense that comes with it, but indeed also the risk of losing the customer. Many of our partners offer to make an ROI (Return-Of-Investment) analysis, and most end up with an ROI within a maximum of 6-12 months.
There are countless suppliers of WMS systems. Therefore, it can be difficult to obtain a complete offer, incl. all expenses. Some of the expenses that can be hard to see through are typically the installation costs.
At Tasklet Factory, we offer a fixed price on the installation of Mobile WMS on a total of 16 hours (dependent of the ERP version). On older versions of Microsoft Dynamics NAV/AX, 4 hours will be added. When we can offer an installation time of a maximum of 2 days, it is because our solution integrates directly with Microsoft Dynamics 365 BC/ NAV or Microsoft Dynamics 365 FO/ AX. Therefore, we do not infiltrate your ERP system.
One of the biggest issues when choosing a WMS system is that the integration into the surrounding systems and processes is optimal. Here we recommend that you choose a WMS system that integrates until the standard functions are in your ERP system. The ERP system should be the central system (also called back-end) whereas your WMS (also called front-end) should be the system that gathers and delivers data back and forth to the ERP system. Here the user-friendliness of Mobile WMS plays a big part. We talk about the look-feel experience for the user. At Tasklet Factory, we have put a big part of our development into the graphic user interface. We have furthermore ensured that it can be configurated in proportion to the individual user.
Working with WMS, you often encounter the need for Voice-Picking or Hands-Free Operation. Here you should check the market thoroughly and be very specific about your needs. In our experience, the need for hands-free operations is bigger than the need to pick by sound. For this purpose, there are a lot of hands-free-set-ups that are used on a large scale by our customers. The most important thing is to clarify your needs, and that it is done very exactly.
We often see that our customers have a need to scan their products directly from the truck they are working from. For this, there are both short-distance and long-distance scanners. But in addition to this, we also have customers that have a need for bigger screens to see their data on. Tasklet Factory has a lot of customers that use Mobile WMS to connect their scanners to their external screens. This is, however not our key competence, but this is where your distributors play a part. We gladly advise you about how our customers do this with Mobile WMS handheld scanners today, and we have both medium-sized and bigger customers that run with this set-up.
At Tasklet Factory, we also offer to deliver the WMS hardware. We collaborate with the biggest hardware manufacturers on the market. As a customer, this also means that you can get guidance to find the hardware that fits just your needs. In addition to this, you get a single point of contact. This means that you only need one supplier that takes responsibility for both the software and the hardware delivery.
We offer hardware in all price ranges to many different industries, including manufacturing, retail, healthcare, wholesale, food services, distribution, service and hospitality, and the public sector.
We recommend that you choose devices with the operating system Android. We do this partly because it is a system requirement for our software, but definitely also because we can see that the acknowledged manufacturers also have decided to go with this operating system.
The biggest selection among the leading manufacturers today is also the operating system of Google Android. The operating system has already passed the operating system Microsoft Windows Embedded Handheld 6.5, which Microsoft has given an “end-of-life” date in 2020. That is also one of the reasons why we recommend that you choose to go with Android.
Our solution runs on both Android and Microsoft Windows Embedded Handheld.
Microsoft has chosen a clear strategy for new versions of Dynamics NAV/AX. Since 2013, Microsoft has launched a new version every year, which means that as a business, you should choose a WMS vendor whose solution is easy to upgrade. The Tasklet Factory warehouse management solution is 100% integrated with Microsoft Dynamics 365 BC/NAV and Dynamics 365 FO/AX and it’s easy to customize. We support all versions of BC/NAV and FO/AX as well as a great variety of barcode scanners.
Another important parameter the company should consider before selecting warehouse management software is whether the company’s WI-FI covers all necessary areas, such as warehouse and production. Mobile WMS from Tasklet Factory can run 100% offline, i.e., you can use your warehouse management system whether you work in a warehouse with poor WI-FI coverage, for example, in buildings with concrete, basement, freezing compartment, cold storage usage, storage with metal and the like.