Warehouse Management System

AbakusWMS is the first all-in-voice WMS in the market. All tasks can be executed by voice control, providing a hands-free-eyes-free work environment from inbound to outbound. This provides an additional 15-35% productivity boost compared to traditional warehouse management systems with handheld driven processes. All AbakusWMS processes can be executed with a variety of handhelds, tablets and forklift computers, supported with internal or external scanners and additional information screen. With AbakusWMS the most suitable devices can be used based on the process requirements.


AbakusWMS Solution provides transparency and visibility on the warehouse-floor processes eliminating errors and resource consuming processes.  It easily resides on top of Enterprise Resource Planning Systems (ERP) and controls all aspects of performing a work task from the initial business transaction to the final reporting and analysis.

The Abakus solution enhances the warehousing ecosystem with software, hardware and services. The core of the solution is AbakusWMS warehouse management system, optimizing warehouse product placement strategies and work processes. It controls other elements of the Abakus ecosystem, such as voice terminals, handheld devices, tablets, barcode scanners and printers. The solution is available either as an on-premise  installation or as a cloud deployment, both fully supported and maintained by Optiscan’s professional services.

At the receiving stage, in order to ensure fast and error-free entry of information, items are checked against the purchase order(s). Quantity discrepancies are reported back to the host system using voice technology or barcode scanning. The goods receive stage supports various process options, such as batch number and serial number handling, building put-away containers and more. AbakusWMS enables over 50% reduction of the pass-through time in reception. This makes products available faster for sales and reduces related labor costs and requirement of extra inventory.

Put-away is the process of transferring a unit of goods from the receiving area to a specific warehouse location. AbakusWMS solution manages the storage locations of products, by using ABC-analysis and product specific picking strategies. In addition, AbakusWMS can handle replenishment of a pick location automatically. In order to use the automatic replenishment, the products and the corresponding locations must have the dimensional data in use or target replenishment quantity parameter set. If location and product dimensional data is available, then dimensions are used to calculate a replenishment quantity that will fit in the location

Picking is optimized by splitting orders to warehouse area specific sub-tasks and by creating multi-order pick tasks, batch tasks. This optimization is done automatically in real-time, based on editable rules. During the picking additional information, such as batch and serial numbers can be also collected. This way, Abakus ensures delivery tracing and real-time progress tracking.
Typically, voice is the most productive technology for full time piece picking operations, since it leaves the pickers with both hands free for moving goods. Voice option provides exceptional accuracy levels based on the use of location check digits. Usage of handheld devices is an excellent alternative in cases where the picking process involves constant scanning of barcodes (such as verifying serial numbers) or if the operators must frequently be able to switch between picking and other warehouse operations during the work shift.

AbakusWMS auto-grouper feature can be used to automatically optimize working productivity. When orders are received, AbakusWMS analyses the order content and makes many optimization decisions automatically. It sets the order priority, assigns it into the correct work queue and groups with other orders to multi-order pick tasks in an optimized way. Optimization logic can be configured directly from the user interface, making AbakusWMS very powerful in meeting changing business needs. Automated handling of area picking and multi-order grouping can provide 20-30% improvement in picking productivity, without any management overhead.

Replenishment of a pick location in AbakusWMS can be made automatically, based on different product and location attributes or by a manual replenishment request, which a warehouse operator can create when a picking task is active.

Transferring goods from one warehouse location to another can be done controlled by a warehouse transfer task. Using the warehouse transfer task keeps the system’s location and quantity information
updated all the time, which makes operating the whole warehouse smooth and accurate.

Cycle counting is the process of auditing stock balances in the system to match the actual balances in the warehouse. AbakusWMS provides several options for cycle counting inventory: managed cycle counting using a pre-created cycle counting task (stock list); spontaneous cycle counting when the operator performs an ad-hoc counting procedure for a single location; or balance query operation to enhance the warehouse operators’ daily operation. The system can be configured to require re-counting or recording additional data such as serial or batch numbers as further security for the activity.