Warehouse Management FAQs

Robotics Hub is a vendor-agnostic layer that connects multiple robot types to your WMS via standard APIs/events. The WMS publishes work (picks, replenishments, moves); Robotics Hub assigns tasks to the best robot fleet, monitors status in real-time, and handles exceptions and fallbacks. Because it centralizes onboarding and orchestration, you can mix vendors/technologies without custom point-to-point integrations, scaling automation faster with one control surface.

A WMS runs the DC: receiving, putaway, slotting, cycle counting, replenishment, picking, packing, shipping, and returns while enforcing lot/serial, temperature, and compliance rules. It orchestrates tasks across people, equipment, and zones, integrates with automation/robots, and provides inventory accuracy and traceability. With dashboards and alerts, managers balance waves/waveless flows, reduce dwell, touches, and improve throughput, service, and especially during peaks.

Dispatcher WMS is Blue Yonder's proven warehouse management system (the descendant of RedPrairie), built for complex, high-volume DCs. It provides rules-driven tasking across inbound, storage, replenishment, and outbound, supports RF/mobile workflows, and coordinates with labor and automation to maximize throughput and accuracy. Facilities use it to enforce compliance (lot/serial, temperature, QA), lower touches, and shrink, and deliver consistent service across multi-site networks.

Blue Yonder's VRS plans end-to-end distribution tours that hit customer windows at minimum cost. It consolidates orders, sequences stops, respects driver and equipment constraints, and can optimize for different objectives (miles, OTIF, COe). Intraday re-optimization adapts to changes (late picks, traffic, cancellations) and republishes to appointments and drivers. The outcome: predictable service, fewer miles and touches, and tours your network can actually execute.

Blue Yonder Warehouse Management runs end-to-end DC operations: receiving, putaway/slotting, cycle counting, replenishment, picking (wave, waveless, batch, zone), packing, shipping, and returns, while enforcing serial/lot, FEFO/FIFO, temperature, and compliance rules. It orchestrates labor and automation side-by-side, supports value added services (kitting, ticketing, labeling), and provides real-time inventory accuracy and traceability. role-based dashboards surface bottlenecks and KPIs (throughput, dwell, accuracy, UPH) so managers can rebalance work on the fly. Tight integration to robotics, transportation, and store/OMS keeps promises accurate during peaks without sacrificing control.

Warehouse automation uses machines, robotics, and software to move, store, pick, and pack goods with minimal manual touches. Examples include AMRs/AGVs, goods-to-person systems, AS/RS, conveyor/sortation, automated packing, and vision/voice-directed picking. The WMS provides the brain: it decides tasks and inventory, then dispatches work to people and robots via standard APIs, monitors progress, and handles exceptions. Benefits include higher throughput and accuracy, safer operations, fewer touches/miles, and better space utilization. The key is to start with data-driven bottlenecks and a scalable integration layer so you can mix vendors and expand over time.