Tecnología y logística, una relación perfecta

ARTICULO

NOMBRE: MORELIA ZAPATA MEJIA

PROCESOS INDUSTRIALES

Tecnología y logística, una relación perfecta

SHEROJ. Portafolio (Aug 23, 2014).

k Andrés López R. Special k for BRIEFCASE In principle, to speak of logistics and technology is to refer to a binomial in which the primordial objective is the activation of the processes. It should be this way. The manipulation of the incoming material, the storage, the transport and the reception, to mention some steps, they require of a precise pursuit that the works "by hand", and with paper and pencil they cannot be developed like one needs. In accordance with Alfonso Stress, manager of solutions of businesses of Microsoft Colombia, two types of basic technologies that contribute to the good acting of the logistics exist: 1.WMS (Warehouse Management Systems), nail in the handling of cellars and distribution centers. With this type of technologies the articles can be controlled that are in stock, in a logical way, for location, and this way to maximize the use of the spaces. The form also exists of negotiating the resources in the cellars in an efficient way. The software solutions can be supplemented with specialized hardware that goes from basic devices, with those that one makes the picking or manual escape of the codes of bars, until sophisticated systems of RFID (I Radiate Frequency Identification), to identify and to know location of the articles inside the place, and to control their exit and entrance without making the manual escape. 2.TMS (Transportation Management Systems), he/she helps to negotiate, in an efficient way, the goods from the same moment in that you/they leave the cellars or of the distribution centers, administering the handling of patios where you/they are the vehicles, the form of loading in these and the distribution routes. Caesar Zapata, manager of bills Latin America of Motorola Solutions, explains that "during the cycle of supply we can find the key of the success for a final happy client, since a good inventory, with exact location, demonstrates an efficient, flexible and effective chain that is achieved with the implementation of tip technology, which doesn't only reduce times and operation costs, but rather it also optimizes the times and it guarantees each step of its work." 2

The technology allows a logistical much more agile and more reliable process. This way everything will be aligned.

Now they begin to be implemented solutions, among those that he/she stands out the automation for voice, or voice picking.

Situation, now and future solutions

A study of Motorola Solutions shows the reality in supply, the solutions and technology: 1.Realidad. Even many companies have an inventory handling with very little technology, what is an obstacle. 2. Soluciones future. To implement a program of suppliers' administration and of inventory that, by means of digital tools, help with the reception process and stored, as the Warnings of Shipment in advance, (ASN) codes of bars GS1, and you label RFID, automatically identifying accurately the process. 3. Technology. Portable computers and of hand they are key in the classification of the product; the pills with managerial functions and of logistics they allow to see specifications, records and orders.

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