QAD Warehousing works with a TMS to provide the following:

The following topics discuss features in QAD Warehousing that let you interface with a TMS.

When using QAD Warehousing wave planning functions, the system relies on workload capacity constraints for planning warehouse picking, packing, and shipping activities. The system uses a TMS to consider load consolidation and optimization during wave planning. The TMS factors in different modes of available shipping such as parcel shipping, less than truckload (LTL), and full truck load (FTL) when selecting orders for a wave. See Wave Planning with a TMS.

During wave replenishment and release, the system creates picking tasks and groups them for pre-shippers per ship-to address. Load optimization functions within wave planning let you:

The relationship between waves and loads is many to one.

See Wave Planning.

As a step to using a wave planning flow with a TMS, the system flags order lines to either follow a load optimization flow or follow the original wave planning flow. The system selects orders flagged for load optimization and exports them to a TMS before making them eligible for selection in a wave. You can export all or a subset of the selected sales or distribution order lines for TMS processing.

QAD Warehousing exports a detailed list to a TMS of sales/distribution order lines, quantities, weights, and volumes that you want to optimize and consolidate to streamline shipping. The TMS performs calculations to optimize the load, then sends the optimized information back to QAD Warehousing.

You can set up load optimization parameters in Load Optimization Set Up Maint (4.15.2.1)

Batch picking and other RF options are linked to the TMS; see Batch Picking with a TMS.

Although task confirmation and related activities are the same, the system enhances task orders that display on the RF to take advantage of load optimization.

Warehouse staff can no longer mix items belonging to different loads into the same container (tote, box, or pallet) when picking.

When building containers through the RF, the system ensures the containers cannot contain items from different loads in the same container.

QAD Warehousing performs load verification functions when it:

Container Move functionality uses TMS drop-off sequencing information to stage pallets in the right order, inverse to the drop-off sequence linked to each pre-shipper. That is, when loading containers that belong to a load, the system verifies that the containers belonging to pre-shippers with the last stop sequence are loaded first.

QAD Warehousing also sends packing information to the TMS so that the TMS can produce the appropriate shipping labels. During print paperwork functions, QAD Warehousing exports packing information to the TMS; the TMS, in turn, returns shipping labeling information or prints shipping labels.

The system produces all necessary documentation for individual shipments (manifesting), including cross-border transactions within governmental and customs regulations.

When exploding pallets on the RF, the system ensures containers that are built per load.

During ship truck activities, QAD Warehousing sends shipping information to the TMS so that the TMS can calculate shipment freight charges, track information, and send this information back to QAD Warehousing.

During ship truck activities, the system validates that a shipper has been sent to the TMS before it sends an end of day (EOD) message to the TMS.