Black Creek Consulting can assist you in performing a wide variety of tasks including:
• Documenting process flows – Using flow charting techniques to accurately describe significant portions of the distribution center’s functional processes.
• Documenting standard operating procedures – Breaking down functional processes into detailed user level instructions complete with screen shots and touch points.
• Process development – Perform time/motion studies of current processes and work with your operations team to improve those processes and increase efficiency.
• User training program development – Develop training programs and documentation to enable your staff to train experienced and inexperienced users.
• Technical support training – Provide technical documentation and training to your super users and internal support staff to reduce issue resolution time and increase uptime and throughput.
• Test plan development – Assist in developing unit, system, and user level test plans designed to exercise the WMS and prove system readiness, robustness, and performance.
• Facility planning – Assist in developing location naming conventions, movement paths, physical work flows and traffic patterns.
• Liaison – Act as a liaison between the business and the WMS vendor to communicate business objectives and requirements more effectively. This reduces ambiguity and decreases the time to delivery of software modifications.
• WMS Configuration – As business rules change, we can assist with configuration changes needed in order to obtain the desired functionality from the WMS.
• Data archiving system design – Assist in the design and implementation of a data archiving strategy that will support the operations business rules and regulations.
• WMS design and development – Assist in the design and development of software modifications to support custom processes and procedures.