The Warehouse Management System You've Been Waiting For!
Our award-winning Warehouse Management System is the only full-featured, Microsoft Windows based solution currently available that can support more than 400 concurrent mobile users. This kind of throughput was previously limited to more expensive AS400 and UNIX-based systems running custom or vendor-configured code and operating on significantly more expensive hardware platforms.

Priya® is a highly-configurable software solution, which can be reconfigured by the user to accommodate changes in your business processes or changing customer requirements, not a highly-customized solution that requires vendor modifications to keep up with your changing environment. This "packaged" solution can be implemented in a fraction of the time of other systems, which means you'll be receiving your Return On Investment that much quicker (while the other guys are still implementing).

TOTAL WAREHOUSE MANAGEMENT
Priya is a complete Warehouse Management System (WMS), not a stock locator or asset management package. It was designed to control the entire operation of any warehouse from 100,000 sq. ft to 2,000,000 sq. ft. By using radio frequency mobile computers as true intelligent clients rather than dumb terminals, Priya® can support anywhere from 10 to 500 concurrent users, making it the most scaleable and cost-effective WMS available. Not only does it have all of the features you would expect in a high-end WMS for dedicated warehouses, but it includes the additional features and functions to support 3rd-party warehousing. Priya® has been developed to meet the all of the requirements for retail and wholesale clients and can handle food (catch weights, serial numbers) or non-food items.

FEATURE-RICH AND FLEXIBLE

  • Receiving
  • Crossdocking
  • Directed Putaway
  • Directed Replenishment
  • Task Interleaving
  • Intelligent RF™
  • Order Processing
  • Management Reporting
  • Open Architecture
  • Picking
  • Kitting
  • Shipping / Manifesting
  • Inbound / Dock Door Scheduling
  • "Hands Free" Voice Picking
  • Cycle Counting / Physical Inventory
  • Routing / Wave Planning
  • 7 x 24 Real-time Locator
  • Labor Productivity Tracking
  • Engineered Labor Standards
  • 3rd Party Warehousing
  • 3PL Activity-Based Billing
  • RF Support for all Functions
  • Integration with MS Office®
  • Benefits

Receiving
Receiving functions can be performed from either a Windows-based workstation, hand-held RF mobile computers or any combination of the two simultaneously. Breakdown and consolidation of incoming products are bar-coded for putaway. Priya® can generate and print any industry-standard bar codes with the bar code generating module that is included as a standard feature.

Highlights of Priya's receiving capabilities include:

  • Multiple SKUs and/or multiple units of measure on the same pallet
  • Direct truck to stow, one-step receiving process
  • Opportunity and planned crossdocking
  • Real-time link to the enterprise system, accommodating PO verification changes
  • Product immediately available for order at the receiving dock
  • Electronically handle warehouse transfers
  • All transactions are tracked and recorded to monitor errors and accountability
  • Bar code creation and printing

Putaway and Storage
Since every warehouse task is tracked in real time, slotting for putaway can be assigned as soon as product is removed from a location. Storage parameters will be assigned based on zone designations, cube size and weight, equipment assignments and other criteria such as:

  • Less than full pallet loads can be putaway on the same trip
  • Whether or not the item is to be cross-docked
  • By environmental properties such as secure or hazardous material handling

Replenishment/Let-Downs
RF directed replenishment tasks are routed and dispatched by equipment characteristics and forward pick area demand. Let-downs are timed based on pick rates against actual inventory flow of the primary pick locations. Special features of the replenishment function include:

  • Changes to a pick wave will automatically change replenishments
  • Pick zone replenishment
  • Let downs are managed by pick waves
  • Emergency replenishments

Order Processing
Priya allows for multiple pick waves to be easily constructed by the warehouse manager, based on the changing priorities and demands of your customers. Waves can be constructed on various criteria such as: pick-by-order, by shipping route, by customer, by shipper, or by your rules built to suit your particular business processes. Some unique features of Order processing include:

  • Order consolidation, sequencing and verification
  • Paper, label or RF picking, or any combination of the three simultaneously
  • Pick route optimization
  • Task management on all pick functions
  • Wave, batch, and pallet pick selection, or any combination simultaneously
  • Assignment of staging locations
  • Dynamic changing of order queue
  • Interface to carousels and other material handling automation
  • Lot control, product rotation, and serial number tracking
  • Chasing for order shorts

Task Interleaving
This function is built into tasks like putaway, replenishment, and order picking to maximize worker productivity and minimize "deadheading". As one task is completed, the system will direct the operator to perform a different task in the same area such as a let down, consolidation, pick, or cycle count. Task Interleaving all but eliminates workers cruising the aisles with "empty forks".

Shipping
The primary purpose of Priya's Shipping function is to verify the accuracy of the picking process and to manifest orders to be shipped. Accuracy of picked orders is confirmed by scanning bar codes with either RF mobile computers or workstations at the shipping/packing stations. Some other shipping features are:

  • Bill of lading creation
  • Shipping label generation
  • Repacking
  • Interfaces to automated sortation systems
  • Interface with enterprise system

OPEN ARCHITECTURE
Priya was developed with an open architecture that allows the application to interface with a number of ERP systems, transportation management systems, and other supply chain applications. In addition, Priya can easily interface with all major RF mobile computers and input devices like bar code scanners and voice recognition products.

AWARD-WINNING WMS DESIGN
With Priya, Motek® has established itself as the clear technology leader in supply chain execution systems. From the beginning, Priya® was designed to take advantage of the Windows environment. It has a Visual C++ front-end coupled with back-end SQL database connectivity via ODBC. Priya can communicate in either real time or batch file transfer mode with a variety of IBM, DEC, HP, and UNIX-based host systems, sharing files and data. Nominated for the Computerworld Smithsonian Award for technical excellence in manufacturing software, Motek software is part of the permanent collection of the Smithsonian's Information Age Exhibit.

EXCLUSIVE INTELLIGENT RF™ TECHNOLOGY
Motek's exclusive Intelligent RF technology, in which the RF devices are intelligent clients rather than dumb terminals, combined with a highly efficient database design, makes Priya the only windows based WMS that can handle up to 200 concurrent mobile users.

MANAGEMENT REPORTING
Automating your operation is only the first step. Priya monitors and tracks all of the activities in your warehouse. Our integrated report writer turns this data into valuable reports or powerful graphical depictions of your warehouse performance. By turning data into information, Priya's management reporting capability will give you the tools that you need to attain and maintain optimum performance in your warehouse and inventory accuracy approaching 99.9x%.

INTEGRATION WITH MICROSOFT OFFICE®
Priya®'s close integration with Microsoft Office allows data collected with the on-board report writer to be easily incorporated with Microsoft Office for sophisticated data analysis and reporting with familiar products like Word® and Excel®.

BENEFITS

  • These are but a few of the benefits that you will realize by implementing Priya: Worker productivity and process improvement
  • Significant cost savings by eliminating excess inventory and "safety stock"
  • Dramatically improved space utilization
  • Elimination of data entry errors and "double-keying" of information
  • Improved customer service levels

DON'T WAIT TO AUTOMATE!
All of these benefits translate into one thing: saving money! It's easy to see why most clients recover their cost of implementing Priya in less than one year! To put it another way, every day that you wait to implement, you are losing money!

Contact us today and let our WMS experts show you how Priya can save you money!