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Warehouse Management System

Software that directs and records every movement inside a warehouse.

Area
Warehouse
Abbreviation
WMS
Also known as
WMS
In this area
19 terms of 257

A WMS controls receiving, putaway, replenishment, picking, packing and dispatch at location level. Rather than recording what happened, it tells staff what to do next and confirms each step by scan.

The difference from basic inventory software is direction and granularity: an inventory system knows you hold 400 units, a WMS knows which bins they are in and the shortest route to pick twelve of them.

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Warehouse Management

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Warehouse runs on this vocabulary every day in AWRA OpsHub — 19 of our 257 glossary terms describe things the platform actually does.