Logistic Justification for Applying Information Technology at the Warehouse

In today's global market, pressure on organizations to find new ways to create value and provide services to their customers is growing. The growing competition in the world market in terms of cost, quality and services necessitated the development of more efficient storage strategies. Effective warehouse management helps optimize existing production and distribution processes and contributes significantly to the goal of reducing costs and improving the quality of service. The ability of organizations to efficiently manage the warehouse, reduce costs and perform operations is critical to success, and the need for effective warehouse management is largely considered an important component. Thus, the warehouse operating system should be designed to accept stocks, timely fulfillment of orders, automated verification of warehouse activities and accurate warehouse control to achieve maximum productivity throughout the enterprise. In addition to new trends in supply chains, technology development also has a big impact on warehousing. Many operations that were previously performed manually are now mechanized or even automated. The purpose of this work is to consider the functionality of warehouse management systems, as well as to analyze their effectiveness. In connection with the goal, such tasks were set as: 1. To analyze the logistics process in the warehouse; 2. Consider methods of increasing the efficiency of warehouse management; 3. Consider the market for warehouse management systems; 4. Using the example of the implementation of a warehouse management system, consider its effect both on individual technological processes and on the functioning of the warehouse as a whole. The first chapter of this work will describe the role, value and functions of the warehouse, as well as analyze methods for improving the efficiency and optimization of the warehouse. The second chapter is an analysis of information systems that can improve warehouse productivity, as well as reduce costs. An analysis of the market of warehouse management systems will be carried out, as well as their main advantages. The third chapter, using a specific warehouse as an example, will show how warehouse management systems can optimize individual logistics operations.