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Warehouse Control System

BEUMER Group's Warehouse Control System is the trusted choice for leading W&D operators who are looking to boost performance, streamline operations, and unlock the full potential of their automated item handling systems.

Our advanced software for W&D operations optimises the entire process for your warehouse, ensuring intelligent item identification, smooth integration, precise material flow control, and end-to-end supervision across the entire sortation system.

Next-generation warehouse control system

With a lifespan exceeding 20 years with proper maintenance, BEUMER Group’s sortation system solutions ensure a future-proof investment to maintain a sustainable W&D operation.

Likewise, our Warehouse Control System incorporates cutting-edge technologies like simulations, emulations, Artificial Intelligence (AI), heat maps, and 3D visualisations.

For daily operation, the BEUMER Warehouse Control System offers configurable virtual desktops, predictive maintenance forecasting, real-time flow visualisation, and intuitive graphical layouts of your operations.

Together, our item handling system and software capabilities form a comprehensive solution, empowering you to address future W&D industry challenges and leverage opportunities stemming from evolving customer behaviors.

BEUMER Group’s Warehouse Control System (WCS) optimises warehouse operations, supporting stock replenishment, retail fulfilment, and e-commerce. It integrates with various automation setups to manage material flow, improve order accuracy, and accelerate fulfilment. Adaptable to specific project needs, the WCS reduces manual intervention and connects with Warehouse Management Systems (WMS) for efficient data exchange, covering inventory updates and order processing.

BEUMER Group’s WCS focuses on Batch Sortation intelligently grouping items by urgency, SKU movement, and picking efficiency to streamline order processing. It balances capacity, prioritises high-demand orders, and reduces retrieval times for smooth operations. The WCS coordinates your automation from receiving to shipping, which includes sorting, sequencing, and packing while keeping warehouse systems aligned in real time. This automation cuts manual handling, minimises errors, and improves overall efficiency.

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Our Material Flow solutions enable W&D operators to leverage multiple item-tracking methods across various systems, including all kinds of flat conveyors (e.g. pallet or roller conveyor), mobile robotics, cross belt sorters, tilt tray sorters, and pouch systems, to ensure sortation is precise and accurate.

By harnessing these capabilities, W&D operators benefit from enhanced data management, accurate inventory tracking, and optimized exception handling.

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In order for warehouse personnel to effectively manage daily operations they require versatile and comprehensive supervision capabilities that meet their specific needs. Our user-friendly web-based interface, BG Fusion, provides warehouse supervisors, maintenance personnel, and operators with dedicated functionality that is tailored to their individual requirements and can be accessed from both workstations and mobile devices.

Our BEUMER SCADA system gives supervisors full control over the entire system so that they’re able to start and stop individual components, as well as visualise, inspect, and monitor the system layout and individual elements. You can also bring your sortation system to life as a dynamic 3D model, and view near-real-time item flow in the interactive BEUMER Flow Twin. This powerful tool provides you with the capability to analyse system behaviour and identify inefficiencies.

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Efficient operation and maintenance of a sortation solution are critical to maintaining effective and uninterrupted systems.

Empowered maintenance personnel and durable system components are equally crucial for successful operations, and our cloud-based solution provides user guides and technical documentation directly from the user interface, enabling operators to troubleshoot more efficiently. Similarly, our eDoc documentation platform possesses an in-built search engine, which empowers operators to quickly locate guidance and documentation without interrupting their workflow.

We are committed to ensuring the highest standards of security in our software solutions, and the IT infrastructure supporting our software solutions are carefully designed to simplify maintenance, optimise product lifecycle management, and streamline system operations.

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The ability to meet the changing needs of the W&D industry and exploit future opportunities is vital. Our software solution uses cutting-edge emulation and simulation models that allow the overall item flow, individual items, processes, and mechanical functions to be scrutinized, and enable you to assess various what-if scenarios.

These scenarios enable you to design future expansions to accommodate evolving operational needs, as well as evaluate the impact of changes to your arrival/departure schedules, item distribution, and item mix, in order to enhance productivity.

BG Insight gives you the capability to find out what happened, discover why it happened, and anticipate what’s likely to happen in the future via superior data analytics frameworks. In addition, our Statistics tool also provides you with user-friendly dashboards comprised of multiple predefined visualisations of crucial metrics and trends, and displays near real-time system performance data.

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Maintaining, operating, and troubleshooting the cutting-edge systems that we deliver requires skilled warehouse personnel. Our comprehensive training equips your supervisors, maintenance personnel, and operators with the confidence and competence for them to achieve and maintain optimal system performance.

Our courses are tailored to enhance skill development and strike a balance between theory and practical exercises — with the hands-on training being conducted directly on your control systems.

We also offer train-the-trainer programs, which enables you to have your own in-house experts who can effectively train and upskill your operators.

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W&D software AND data

W&D operations generate an increasing amount of data from an expanding number of sources, but this data is only useful if it is analysed and understood properly.

At BEUMER Group, we have extensive experience with working with data from live operations and have used these learnings to extend our services to the predictive and prescriptive level. BEUMER’s digital capability offers a growing range of data-driven services to enable staff at the maintenance, operational, and management levels to make reliable and informed decisions.

Data Visualisation

When working with data, organisations sometimes focus solely on the collection of data, and miss out on the outcome of working with data.

At BEUMER Group, we believe that the value of data lies in the decisions it leads to. To make data relatable, we work with data visualisation on a number of different abstraction layers:

The most complex and challenging layer is the dashboard layer, which, on one side, allows users to mine data and reach a deep understanding of different scenarios, but on the other hand also requires a certain system insight and analytical approach.
To support warehouse operations in navigating the noise, we offer a number of “translations”, such as strategic KPI’s, OEE’s, sustainability index and process overview, each designed to provide users with a simpler operational overview.
To complete the visualisation package, we offer a digital twin — which turns the layout into a storyteller. The BEUMER FLOW Twin provides visualisation of flow and data in real-time, as well as historical data, and provides an easy and intuitive understanding of an otherwise complex system.

Our W&D value proposition

The key components to accomplishing the strategic ambition for your W&D operations are an overall efficient and reliable software solution, a flexible and expandable framework, data transparency, and a professional user experience for different user groups within your organisation. With our W&D software value proposition we focus on teams, tools, and systems:

Software and Data Solutions

Our W&D Software and Data solutions act as the interface between the actual physical system and the staff operating, maintaining, and managing the system. To enable users to make faster and better decisions, visualisation of data is provided at different abstraction layers ranging from dashboards to the digital twin. Data transparency is crucial to understanding current performance and optimising for the future. The Software and Data solution therefore includes the ability to share data with existing Business intelligence (BI) solutions.

Operations & Maintenance team

The right tools, the right views, and a professional software user experience is what the maintenance, operations and management team within your organisation need to enable them to excel in their respective jobs while also operating with a leaner O&M team.

When linking the item handling system with the Software & Data solutions and the resident O&M team, a W&D organisation will achieve what we call data-driven asset management.

Data DRIVEN asset management

Understanding and working with data is extremely valuable. This is particularly important in view of the item handling system’s key role in achieving and maintaining high-capacity sortation throughput that maximises W&D productivity whilst minimising errors.

With this in mind, BEUMER Group has established a secure data warehouse to which data is streamed in real-time from an ever growing number of live operations.

Benefits

Make informed decisions based on data
Enable data-driven planning
Fact based communication with stakeholders
Minimise efforts and automate management reporting
Gain full control over production status
Minimise interruptions in system availability

A partnership with BEUMER GROUP

Selecting the right solution also involves selecting the right W&D software partner to work with.

At BEUMER Group, our partnerships are built on these pillars:

A professional implementation of your project is key to delivering critical infrastructure. At BEUMER Group, our processes are certified according to the Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) Level 3 framework and our Project Managers are Project Management Institute (PMI) certified. This means that each project is managed in a transparent, timely and professional manner.
Given the increased levels of cyber security threats, keeping your HLC system safe is more important than ever. At BEUMER Group, we integrate cyber security right from the design phase, and our software solutions follow the IEC 62443 standards. We are also certified according to ISO 27001 as an organization, and certified by TÜV according to the industry security standard IEC 62443-4-1 for Secure development of Lifecycle processes for Software Solutions Project execution.
The right solution should also be able to pave the way for future improvements. Our software is in its sixth generation and builds on decades of operational experience – it is always updated and expanded according to our product roadmap. In this way, your system stays young and relevant as the W&D industry’s needs change over time.

BEUMER Group is CMMI certified, which always ensures a professional implementation. Being CMMI Level 3 certified requires BEUMER Group to manage projects and processes in a way that improves predictability and achieves efficiency through standardisation and engineering focus. It means that the company has a detailed process that guides the product lifecycle, from its conception through to its delivery and maintenance. Our adherence to the Process Areas in both Level 2 and Level 3 demonstrates that this is our process.

Doing business with a company that is assessed for CMMI Level 3 provides the best foundation throughout the product lifecycle. It ensures timely delivery and products of a high quality, which are in the interest of the overall project.

Distribution centre systems are expected to operate 24/7 and BEUMER Group is committed to complying with relevant industry standards for both low-level controls and high-level controls to keep systems running. We also offer guidance with regards to implementing and operating a secure set-up.

Complying with the IEC 62443 standard

BEUMER Group works with a Secure Development Lifecycle to provide the following:

A precise definition of system security requirements
Secure design, implementation, verification and validation of security requirements
Defect management and patch management
Product end-of-life compliance

These processes are generally guided by the IEC 62443 standards for industrial automation control systems. They reflect a “Shift Left on Security” mindset where security is moved to the earliest possible point in the development process, ensuring that security is built into the design.

Defined and secure processes

To adhere to the high-level requirements by many government and industry contracts, especially in software, BEUMER Group’s software project processes have been assessed as being at Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) Level 3. To provide further assurance, our internal IT security is guided by the ISO 27001 standard. These assessments mean that the design and development of software have always undertaken a well-defined and proven process.

Keeping the DISTRIBUTION controls safe

BEUMER Group software architecture follows the practice of “continuous delivery”, where software is produced in short cycles to be released with greater speed and frequency. This paves the way for easy and reliable upgrades of the software.

Virus protection service and OS patching services are part of the BEUMER Group Hotline services.

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Warehouse Control System

Next-generation warehouse control system

W&D software AND data

Data Visualisation

Our W&D value proposition

Software and Data Solutions

Operations & Maintenance team

Data DRIVEN asset management

Benefits

A partnership with BEUMER GROUP

Case studies

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Varner Distribution Centre

Designer Shoe Warehouse

Do you have any questions?

Do you have any questions?

Your Contact Person

Lars Beier Madsen

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