DC Velocity - July 2014

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FORTE
WAREHOUSE
DIRECTOR™
FORTE
INTEGRATION
DIRECTOR™
FORTE
AUTOMATION
DIRECTOR®
FORTE
OPERATIONS
DIRECTOR™
FORTE
INTELLIGENCE
DIRECTOR™

• Inventory tracking
• Receiving
• Put away
• Replenishment
• Location control
• Picking
• Shipping
• Wave optimization
• Predictive issue detection
• Event management and notification
• Dedicated technical support
• Warehouse Control System (WCS)

• Intelligent sortation logic
• Dynamic routing
• Inline compliance labeling
• Inline scale interaction
• Touchscreen-enabled operator interface
• Data logging
• Non-standard/seasonal operations capabilities
• High-speed, multidirectional communication broker
• Message decomposition and translation for streamlined
interfacing with other systems
• Uses XML or other message formats as needed
• Leverages multiple communication protocols
• Operational intelligence
• Performance dashboard
• Reporting center
• Predictive analytics
• Simulation
The operational challenges faced in distribution centers today require a new breed of warehouse software.
They demand a flexible and versatile system that serves as a critical bridge between people and automation—
between legacy systems and new hardware. The FORTE Smart Warehouse Suite WES is an efficient approach
that lets companies right-size their implementation precisely to their needs, avoiding costly and often wasteful
WMS enhancements that complicate future upgrades.