Latest Warehouse Management Release From CA Business Unit
Includes Flexibility for Both E-Commerce and Traditional Distribution
CHICAGO, Oct. 5 /PRNewswire/ -- (Dialogue '99/Europe, Warwickshire, United
Kingdom and Scan-Tech '99) Addressing the growing warehouse management and
logistics needs of the e-business world, interBiz Supply Chain Group today
announced the availability of the newest release of its Warehouse BOSS
solution. interBiz Supply Chain Group is a business unit of Computer
Associates International, Inc. (NYSE: CA).
Warehouse BOSS is a complete warehouse management system, covering all
aspects of receiving, locating, putaway, order management, picking, packing
and shipping. The newest release of Warehouse BOSS addresses the shift in
warehousing and logistics requirements that have resulted from the
proliferation of e-commerce outlets.
"There's a dichotomy in the warehouse management market today," said Ken
Ramoutar, vice president of product marketing for interBiz Supply Chain Group.
"On one hand, the e-business companies have brought pressure on the warehouse
and logistics operations to deliver higher volumes of small quantity orders.
On the other hand, distributors still need the flexibility to efficiently
deliver pallet-sized orders to traditional wholesale markets. Our warehouse
management solution handles both business models."
For example, consumer goods manufacturers continue to handle large volume
shipments to the retailers in case and pallet quantities. At the same time,
many now offer a direct-to-consumer Internet "store" which requires the
ability to select and ship products to serve the individual consumer.
In book publishing -- perhaps the market segment that has seen the
greatest shift in business models as result of the Internet -- warehousing
operations continue to ship high-volume, case quantity orders to retail
bookstores, universities and school districts. But they also need to ship
hundreds of thousands of single-book orders -- whether to consumers who have
placed orders online or to school administrators, teachers and professors with
sample editions of new textbooks.
Warehouse BOSS provides the flexibility to handle everything from
full-pallet, full-case volume picking down to individual book orders. In
addition, Warehouse BOSS enables school districts to specify how they want
textbooks to be packaged and shipped, be it by grade level, subject level or
combined in whichever method is the most cost-efficient.
In addition to the increased flexibility in the selection and shipping
processing of order fulfillment, the newest release of Warehouse BOSS also
provides enhancements that will help companies organize their warehouse space
more effectively. Those include:
-- Location Capacity Manager to help reduce the number of partially filled
warehouse locations;
-- Co-mingling, that allows for mixed SKUs to be stored in the same
location; and
-- Proactive Replenishment Planning so that warehouse and logistics
operations can proactively generate, modify and commit replenishment
plans based on user-defined inventory levels and/or shipping histories.
The enhancements to Warehouse BOSS are among the recent e-business
initiatives announced recently by interBiz Solutions. In August, interBiz
announced:
-- The general availability of interBiz WebTrade, a business-to-business
e-commerce solution that allows companies to create an online product
catalog and accept sales orders via the Internet, and
-- The beta program of BizWorks, the division's innovative business
management framework, enabling secure intra- and inter-business
collaboration over the Web.
The BizWorks technology bridges the gap between current business
applications and the Internet, by integrating an array of enterprise
applications -- both from interBiz Solutions' various business applications
and from partner, vertical and home-grown systems -- with information sources
on the World Wide Web. The framework will add business value to the
now-unified view of business information resources through advanced analysis
techniques.
With the Internet providing the ultimate platform for customer-focused
e-business applications and business-to-business services, organizations face
the need for complete view of the supply chain. CA's interBiz Solutions, and
its business units -- interBiz Supply Chain Group, interBiz Financial Group,
interBiz Banking Group and ACCPAC International -- are focused on providing
solutions that help worldwide clients, suppliers, and partners capitalize on
e-commerce business opportunities.
About interBiz Supply Chain Group
The interBiz Supply Chain Group, a business unit of Computer Associates
International, is a worldwide supplier of integrated business application and
supply chain management software. The group provides an integrated suite of
enterprise solutions including Enterprise Resource Planning, Warehouse
Management, Advanced Planning and Scheduling and Process Reengineering.
interBiz Supply Chain Group is part of the interBiz Solutions division of CA,
and leverages the BizWorks(TM) framework for intra- and inter-business
support, business intelligence and predictive management. More information is
available on interBiz's Web site at http://interBiz.cai.com .
About Computer Associates International, Inc.
Computer Associates International, Inc. (NYSE: CA), the world leader in
mission-critical business computing, provides software, support and
integration services in more than 100 countries around the world. CA has more
than 17,500 employees and had revenue of $5.3 billion in fiscal year 1999.
For more information about CA, please call 516-342-5224 or email info@cai.com.
CA's World Wide Web address is http://www.cai.com .
SOURCE interBiz Supply Chain Group
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Related links:
http://interBiz.cai.com
CONTACT:
Larry A. Mathias, 630-505-6137, or e-mail,
Larry.Mathias@cai.com, or Mike Finnegan, 516-342-4493, or e-mail,
Michael.Finnegan@cai.com, both of interBiz Supply Chain Group
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