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The Complementary Roles of a WCS & WMS
WMS |
WCS |
| Business Planning | Company Execution |
| Direct Handbook Operations | Direct Automatic Operations |
| Process data (Non-Real-Time) | Utilize Realtime Information |
| Multiple Places | Solitary Facility |
| Control Anticipated Circumstances | Handle Exclusions |
| Standardized, Rigid Functionality | Modular Flexibility; Customizable |
If your warehouse had been a movie, the WMS is a copywriter, creating the script that its director, the warehouse control system, executes. Though some functions have one of those and never one other, they’re best whenever incorporated collectively for optimum influence. Obviously the various systems on both sides of this WMS/WCS divide have started to provide functions that were after the area associated with the various other.
