Análise da viabilidade da utilização do software Warehouse Management system na gestão de armazenagem de produtos e materiais

Abstract

In this work, was carried out an analysis of the feasibility of the use of software, Warehouse Management System (WMS) in the management of storage of products and materials, by means of a systematic review of the literature. To perform the analysis were selected two jobs, a dissertation and an article, containing in both case studies with good data on the deployment of the WMS in enterprises and on the developers of the WMS. Of the selected works have been studied two companies, a developer of WMS and the five firms using the WMS, in which they analyzed and compared the reasons that have led companies to deploy the WMS, the difficulties of the implementation process of the WMS according to the users and the developers, the functionalities of the WMS deployed by each company and developed by each developer and the benefits offered by the WMS of both enterprises and users when the developers. The analysis has enabled to confirm the feasibility of the use of the WMS by businesses, particularly in the large working with a great amount of goods in their warehouses. Such a claim is due to the resolution of the issues contained in the reasons of each company and the many other benefits achieved by companies with the implementation of the WMS.