Scan the truck in.Stock the right bin.
With WMSHero, receivers check each delivery against its purchase order on an Android handheld, flag quantity shortages and overages at the dock, and get a suggested bin for each item. Lot numbers and expiration dates are recorded during the scan, and stock becomes available to pick when the put-away scan confirms the bin.
Receiving errors carry through to picking, counts and accounting.
When a delivery is recorded hours after it arrives, small gaps travel downstream: a lot or expiration date that wasn't captured, a quantity that doesn't match what came off the truck, a pallet waiting in staging without a location. Recording the receipt at the dock, against the purchase order, closes those gaps while the delivery is still there to check.
Re-keying paper counts adds errors
When counts are written on paper and entered later, details can be lost along the way: the lot, the expiration date, or the actual quantity if a number is mistyped.
Stock in staging has no location yet
A pallet that's been received but not put away can't be picked, takes up dock space and is easy to lose track of on a busy day. Dated stock that waits there also uses up shelf life.
Dates entered later are less reliable
If the expiration date isn't scanned at the dock, someone has to fill it in later from paperwork. A wrong date affects first-expired-first-out (FEFO) picking for that lot, so newer stock can ship while older stock ages.
From the dock to the bin in three steps.
Receiving and put-away run on the same handheld, so the receipt, the lot details and the bin location are recorded in one pass.
Open the purchase order on the handheld
The receiver opens the purchase order (PO) or advance ship notice (ASN) to see what should arrive, in what quantity and from which supplier. If a delivery arrives without a PO, blind receiving records what's scanned.
Scan each item and check it against the PO
The handheld records barcode, quantity, lot and expiration date at receipt. Shortages, overages and damaged items are flagged against the PO while the delivery is still at the dock.
Put away to the suggested bin
WMSHero suggests a bin based on velocity, zone and capacity. The receiver takes the item there and scans the bin to confirm, and the stock becomes available to pick.
Flag shortages while the delivery is at the dock.
WMSHero matches each scan to the open purchase order or ASN as you receive. Lines that match are marked complete. When a quantity is short or over, the line is flagged so the receiver can record the discrepancy before the driver leaves.
- Scans checked against the PO and the supplier's ASN as you receive
- Overages, shortages and damage recorded with a timestamp and photo
- Supplier barcodes mapped to your SKUs, so a confirmed mapping is reused on later deliveries
- Blind receiving for deliveries that arrive without a PO
A suggested bin for each item.
Receivers shouldn't have to remember where thousands of SKUs belong. WMSHero applies your warehouse rules and the item's attributes, then shows the receiver which bin to take it to: cold items to cold storage, fast movers near the pick face, oversized items to bulk locations.
Suggestions take velocity, temperature zone and current bin capacity into account, so they follow changes in your slotting and stock levels. Scanning the bin confirms the put-away and makes the stock available to pick.
- Rules by category, supplier, temperature zone or other item attributes
- Capacity-aware suggestions based on the space left in each bin
- License plate number (LPN) put-away moves a whole pallet as one unit
- Cross-dock routing sends stock that's already needed for an order straight to staging
Where receiving data is used next.
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