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Software Designer Bill Williams Champions Qc Software Warehouse Control Systems

The solutions provided by QC Software (www.qcsoftware.com) enables companies to streamline their warehouse operations with the lowest total cost of ownership in the industry ensuring increased corporate profitability. With a commitment to total customer satisfaction QC Software is the obvious choice for warehouse control, order management, and inventory management needs.

QC Software is the leading provider of Tier 1 warehouse control systems to the warehousing and distribution industries. Since 1996, QC Software, utilizing state of the art technology combined with extensive research, development, and rigorous testing, has developed the QC Enterprise suite of products. Designed to be modular in nature, easily configurable, and platform independent, this highly scalable solution satisfies the needs of any size warehouse.

Bill Williams is QC Software’s lead software designer and programmer. He has over 15 years experience designing and developing software for material handling systems. He is an experienced Linux and UNIX system administrator as well as an accomplished C, Java, and SQL database developer.

Bill’s primary duties include the design and development of QC Software’s base software applications and libraries, in addition to serving as system administrator and software archive controller. For project related activities, Bill manages the software development team and takes an active roll in the over-all software development.

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Tier 1 Warehouse Control Systems Leader QC Software Part of MHIA

QC Software is the leading provider of Tier 1 warehouse control systems to the warehousing and distribution industries.   Since 1996, QC Software, utilizing state of the art technology combined with extensive research, development, and rigorous testing, has developed the QC Enterprise suite of products.  Designed to be modular in nature, easily configurable, and platform independent, this highly scalable solution satisfies the needs of any size warehouse. 

There is complexity in managing supply chains that span continents and dominate markets demands strategies, equipment and systems that are agile, adaptable, and aligned. With product lifecycles shortening and worldwide competition increasing, success depends on effective material handling & logistics solutions for the global supply chain – being able to deliver the right product to the right market at the right time.

QC Software (www.qcsoftware.com) is dedicated to providing a warehouse control system (WCS) when it is needed and appropriate. According the Jerry List, Vice-President of QC Software, “We are proud to be a member of Material Handling Industry of America (MHIA)…it is the leading non-profit association representing the suppliers of material handing and logistics solutions. The entire staff at QC Software supports MHIA’s mission to create a greater understanding between business and Industry of the solutions offered through material handling & logistics.”

MHIA’s member companies are industry leaders in providing solutions that make the supply chain work. Active members are manufacturers of industrial material handling and logistics equipment, systems and software or user-specified components for such equipment. They market their products in the United States. Associate membership is held by business publications, consultants and systems simulators.

Through MHIA, member companies are given a greater voice in shaping the destiny of the industry both nationally and internationally. MHIA sponsors trade events, to both showcase the products and services of its member companies and to provide material handling and logistics educational opportunities

The WCS solutions provided by QC Software enables companies to streamline their warehouse operations with the lowest total cost of ownership in the industry ensuring increased corporate profitability. 

QC Software, Inc.

www.qcsoftware.com

Jerry List

JerryList@qcsoftware.com 

 (513) 469-1424

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Software Warehouse Control Systems Leader Qc Software Profiled in Industry 2.0 Magazine

QC Software is the leading provider of Tier 1 warehouse control systems to the warehousing and distribution industries. Since 1996, QC Software, utilizing state of the art technology combined with extensive research, development, and rigorous testing, has developed the QC Enterprise suite of products. Designed to be modular in nature, easily configurable, and platform independent, this highly scalable solution satisfies the needs of any size warehouse.

Manufacturing journalist TR Cutler, profiled QC Software in a recent issue of Industry 2.0. The full feature can be read at http://trcutlerinc.com/Cutler%20Speak%20-%20Nov06.pdf.

Experiencing exponential growth, Arbonne, a leading cosmetic distributor, needed to re-engineer its distribution operations. Arbonne achieved this by implementing a third picking line that was fully automated, enabling them to double their output. A major component of this new system was QC Enterprise, by Cincinnati-based QC Software, Inc. (www.qcsoftware.com). QC Enterprise is a warehouse control system, which communicates in real-time with the host WMS as well as the material handling hardware. It manages the entire conveyor routing process and the operational aspect of the picking and shipping (order fulfillment) functions within the distribution center.

The QC OMS (Order Management System) module allows Arbonne to pick orders directly into shipping cartons

Utilizing cartonization logic. This ensures that each carton is not over packed based on product dimensions and weight. When the orders are downloaded to QC Enterprise, the volume and weight of the items are calculated, with a ‘dunnage’ factor for packing materials, and suggests the proper size carton for the order. Also, if it is determined that the order is comprised of more than one carton, QC Enterprise will allocate SKUs in such a way to minimize the route cartons must travel and avoid multiple cartons being diverted into the same pick zones.

Other inefficiencies of the ‘pick and pass’ process were overcome by implementing zone skipping. Cartons traveling on an automated conveyor are now routed only to the required pick zones, decreasing the actual throughput time and drastically reducing the number of times a carton is touched throughout the picking process. “Imagine driving down the road and stopping at every exit, even though it’s not your exit, just because it’s there. That’s what zone skipping prevents,” according to Tom Verzi, vice-president of QC Software.

Modifications to the shipping process were also put into place. This included automatic printing of packing documents and the implementation of QC SMS (shipment management systems) powered by ConnectShip (a UPS product) providing a single server, multi-carrier shipping system. Further streamlining the process involved installing ‘print and apply’ technology which automated the printing of shipping labels and applying them directly to the shipping carton. This eliminated the need for manual shipping stations.

The solutions provided by QC Software (www.qcsoftware.com) enables companies to streamline their warehouse operations with the lowest total cost of ownership in the industry ensuring increased corporate profitability. With a commitment to total customer satisfaction QC Software is the obvious choice for warehouse control, order management, and inventory management needs.