CINCINNATI, OH (July 25, 2022) — Matthews Automation Solutions’ Austin Santich, Director of Systems Engineering, was interviewed by Modern Materials Handling’s senior editor Roberto Michel for the magazine’s July article exploring how warehouse execution system (WES) software coordinates and optimizes warehouse automation.
Distribution and fulfillment centers are adding more automation like automated storage and retrieval systems (AS/RS), robotics, and conveyor and sortation systems. As such, the need for warehouse execution systems (WES) has grown to integrate, coordinate and orchestrate these sub-systems for optimal performance.
Sitting between warehouse management systems (WMS) and warehouse control systems (WCS), the WES layer releases and manages batches and waves of orders to balance work and prevent bottlenecks.
“You can think of WES as the central hub of information for a warehouse,” says Austin Santich, director of systems engineering with Matthews Automation Solutions, a WES provider. “WES is constantly getting data flowing up from controls, coming in from the subsystems it interfaces to, as well as information coming down from WMS. We use that data and information to create a balance across the building and a continuous flow of product. The goal is to always have work in front of resources and operators, but never overrun an area with too much work.”
Click on the link below to read the full Modern Materials Handling article:
“How WES is changing the game for fulfillment centers”.
Matthews Automation Solutions contact: Lynn Drewicz, Marketing Manager, Matthews Automation Solutions at [email protected], 262.250.2169, or visit matthewsautomation.com.
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Global brands partner with Matthews Automation Solutions to increase distribution and order fulfillment speed, accuracy and efficiency. Matthews’ broad portfolio of best-of-breed solutions—including leading material handling automation brands Compass, Lightning Pick and Pyramid—offers warehouse execution software, controls, pick-to-light, put walls, order finishing systems, autonomous mobile robots and more. Combined with 25 years of industry experience and proven integration with other material handling systems, Matthews delivers agile and scalable applications throughout the supply chain. Matthews Automation Solutions is a Matthews International company, servicing customers from two North American locations.
