DC Velocity - July 2014

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Warehouse Control System (WCS)

CONTINUOUS ORDER FULFILLMENT PROCESSING

COFE is the first intelligent Warehouse Control System that processes orders without waves for distribution centers. It is typically installed between the warehouse management system (WMS) and the material handling subsystems, to expand the capabilities of the WMS.

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Adaptive, Scalable, Fast

COFE fills the gap where traditional retail centric methodologies and systems fail. COFE has a clear advantage over traditional systems. It is a highly scalable intelligent warehouse control system that synchronizes and sequences work by pulling work to the available resource (both people and machines). Using this methodology we remove the need for costly buffers and complex waving disciplines. Its power lies in the simplistic methodologies its based upon.

We offer a variety of modules that allow COFE to be customized for your specific application.

Dynamic Labor Balancing

• Real-time, system-directed labor balancing across multiple work zones

• Intuitive rule-based priorities that balances across current workload demands

• Synchronizes the operation of all work zones

• Accounts for area reassignment penalties in excessive worker movements

Sorting Machine Optimization

• Real-time optimized decision item sortation

• Increased sortation capacity by 28%

• Reduced “problem orders” by 75%

• Reduced processing and material handling labor

• Allows workers to work to their own capacity, faster workers are rewarded with more work

Next-order Optimization

• Real-time decisions of next order activation

• Configurable rule-based on order priority; i.e. ship requirements, order ages, picker locations and available inventory

• Allows nearly immediate processing of priority orders

• Determines what orders are “not picked” in resource-limited operating conditions

Revolving Batch Picking

• Elimination of low productivity wave transition periods

• Maximized continuous resource utilization

• Leveling of processes, eliminating harmonic peaks and valleys behavior

• Removes need for costly (time and dollars) buffers

Reporting & Management Tools

There are in excess of 150 standard COFE VIEW reports and management tools to assist you in keeping pace with the real-time activities happening within your distribution center. In addition, COFE VIEW’s intuitive design allows even the most novice of users the ability to create custom reports in just minutes to meet their individual needs.

To see the power of COFE, call us at 877.876.6384 for a demonstration.

Why VARGO?

To thrive and meet your customer’s expectations, you must innovate and adapt. We take a unique approach to processing orders in your distribution center using pull-based, waveless methodologies—in effect creating a “lean” logistics system.

VARGO is a team of fulfillment and distribution center specialists with expertise in systems integration, DC process improvement, and specialized material handling equipment. For over four decades, we have been working with retailers, manufacturers, wholesale and direct-to-consumer distributors to improve material handling operations and move beyond traditional distribution methodologies.

As the industry pioneer of continuous order fulfillment, our processes and methodologies are in practice at some of the largest and best in class distributors of online goods. Our intelligent warehouse control system COFE is a well-established product now being applied to the Omni channel revolution, one inventory, one engine, one work force. Our customers enjoy the benefits of having real-time, demand-driven work flow, with products pulled through the operation as opposed to being pushed through. It is a new way of thinking that is producing record-breaking results.