A warehouse management system whose primary goal is to manage the movement and
storage of products within a warehouse, and handle the connected transactions is a main
part of the supply chain. WMS also manages the stock based on real-time information
about the status of products and storage locations. There is no doubt that WMS is
extremely significant for most businesses. WMS can be an independent system or modules
of an ERP (Enterprise resource planning) system or supply chain execution suite, which
provides an efficient, productive and accurate way to manage a warehouse.
WMS is not only the barcode and RF or batch processing, but also a lot more than
inventory management, transportation management, order management and integrated with
the accounting systems. Nowadays warehouse management systems are evolving into
warehouse based enterprise resource planning system./1/