DC Velocity - April 2015

Warehouse execution system: Westfalia Technologies Inc.’s Savanna.NET Warehouse Execution System (WES) combines a warehouse management system (WMS) and warehouse control system (WCS) into a single application to help manufacturers and distributors direct, control, and optimize internal material flow and order picking.

Savanna.NET WES can operate as a stand-alone software solution or with Westfalia’s automated storage and retrieval systems (AS/ RS). The software simplifies and controls the entire warehousing process, while reducing the complexity of using several different “function-specific” applications, according to Westfalia.

Savanna.NET offers users the functionality necessary to efficiently receive, store, and track product, as well as marry inventory to customer orders using the solution’s integrated order fulfillment processing capabilities. When an order is to be filled, Savanna.NET processes that order into units of work. Using the Savanna. NET solution’s integrated WCS functionality, the application directs either automated material handling equipment or manual labor to execute the task. Inventory tracking also occurs seamlessly utilizing the software’s WMS components. (Westfalia Technologies Inc., www. savanna.net)

Warehouse management system: JDA Software Group Inc. says it has made key enhancements to its JDA Warehouse Management solution.

JDA Warehouse Management presents the right information at the right time to the right user through persona-based control towers for proactive management of the warehouse’s operation. This ease of use is essential to managing today’s high-speed omnichannel warehouse operations, according to JDA.

Users can address the most pressing warehouse issues through intuitive workflows, while staying connected to the overall performance of the warehouse’s operations through the control tower’s intelligent interface.

This release of JDA Warehouse Management also delivers faster time-to-value to customers through an enhanced JDA Configuration Manager. User-friendly prescriptive workflows deliver faster implementations, simplified process changes, and easier onboarding.

This release of JDA Warehouse Management also features key capabilities to expedite returns tracking, routing, processing, and the disposition of returns inventory. These additions help to reduce the time it takes for an item to go from a return to sellable inventory. (JDA Software Group Inc., www.jda.com)

Expanded airfreight service: UPS has expanded its UPS Worldwide Express Freight service, an urgent airfreight offering, with 12 new origin and nine new destination countries for urgent, time-sensitive, and high-value international heavy-weight shipments. UPS now offers the guaranteed service to 50 origin and

51 destination countries and territories.

UPS added the following origin countries: Chile, Greece, Indonesia, Israel, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, New Zealand, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Slovakia, Turkey, and Vietnam. The company also added the following destination countries: Chile, Indonesia, Israel, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, New Zealand, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Vietnam.

The service offers faster guaranteed service for palletized shipments over 150 pounds (70 kg) in more lanes than any other carrier, according to UPS. Delivery is door-to-door and day-definite, with customs brokerage service included. Saturday deliveries are available to select U.S. and Canadian postal codes.

UPS Worldwide Express Freight service offers many of the same features as UPS’s Worldwide Express package service, including automated shipment preparation, online tracking, and proactive notification technology. In addition, both express freight and package shipments are consolidated into one bill. (UPS, ups. com/worldwideexpressfreight)

Guaranteed motor freight delivery service: Regional motor carrier Reddaway, which serves the Pacific Northwest, has launched a Guaranteed Friday to Monday Service, accelerating Friday two-day shipments to next-day delivery on Monday by 3: 30 p.m. The new service benefits shippers who are now using second-day lanes and need to reduce their delivery time.