SUMITOMO HEAVY INDUSTRIES TECHNICAL REVIEW
Internet Compatible Warehouse Management System: eWMS
Yuusuke NAKATOU, Masaru MORITA and Norihiko MACHII

We have developed the Warehouse Management System (eWMS), which addresses supply chain management and the Internet, in addition to our already established Distribution Management Systems (delivery control, inventory control and factory automation).
At a distribution center, for example, the eWMS will assume the core part to work with its host system and to allow various low-level terminals (PC, wireless terminals, in-vehicle terminals etc.) to be connected. Furthermore, optimum and real-time delivery control is applied to the distribution facilities such as automated storage and retrieval warehouses, conveyors and rail carts. eWMS can expand its application field to the supply chain logistics of distribution of goods from the current fields of distribution and factory automation.