Three-tier management of shop-floor warehouse / line-side warehouse / workstation bins. Work orders pull materials by picking list, materials are kitted by delivery task, and stock is deducted by operation consumption, with FEFO / FIFO enforced automatically — eliminating book-physical discrepancies at the source.
A complete chain from picking to delivery to workstation consumption
Work orders auto-compute the required-material list from the BOM; once PMC reviews it, it's dispatched to the shop-floor warehouse — no manual form-filling.
Large items by AGV, small items by trolley; delivery staff claim on a PDA, scan to dispatch, and scan to deliver.
Surplus returns to the shop-floor warehouse and shortages trigger temporary replenishment, with return/replenish workflows approved and traced for clear books.
Automatically suggest picking order by "first-in-first-out / first-expiry-first-out" to avoid stock expiry.
Four-level location codes — aisle / rack / location / cell — locate by scan, finding goods in zero time.
Materials are back-deducted by operation BOM during reporting, avoiding the false book-kitting of "picking more, deducting less."
Don't let "picking too much or too little" become the norm for shop-floor squabbles. The shop-floor warehouse is far from the workstation but holds bulk, the line-side warehouse is close but small, and the workstation bin is right at the worker's hand. Tiered three-warehouse management + kanban pull + JIT delivery makes material management flow as smoothly as the bloodstream.
FEFO rule · nearest-expiry issued first
Materials in food / medical / chemical industries have shelf lives and must follow FEFO (first-expiry-first-out); auto parts / electronics require FIFO (first-in-first-out) for consistency. The system selects the rule automatically by material attribute, with the picking PDA guiding to the correct batch.
Traditionally, materials are picked all at once at work-order start and deducted all at once at close. But deductions may be missed in between (scrap / substitution / shortcutting), so book kitting isn't actual kitting. SBK MES back-deducts by operation BOM during reporting, deducting stock automatically with each operation's consumption.
With an OEM 2-hour delivery window, the line-side warehouse pulls by Kanban, moving materials from warehouse to workstation within 10 minutes.
Feeders are pre-SET before changeover and delivered as a complete set by AGV to the SMT line-side, halving changeover time.
Materials are picked by shelf life with FEFO, with automatic alerts 7 days before expiry and a monthly near-expiry list to spur consumption.
200+ materials per work order, with PDA scanning guiding picking — new workers up to speed in 1 day.
The shop-floor warehouse is fully connected with the central warehouse / work orders / traceability
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