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Introducing Open Source WMS

picoWMS is a highly-configurable warehouse management and control
software package which will be available at no cost, and with full
source code. The first complete installation-ready release is expected
in 2nd quarter of 2003, with updates and enhancements to continue
thereafter. 

While a completely off-the-shelf WMS that will appeal to everyone is
nearly impossible to create, picoWMS plans to provide enough of the
infrastructure, operational modules, and examples to allow consultants
and computer/web-savvy warehouse IT groups to install their own systems.
Designed with growth in mind, picoWMS will allow the same software to
operate a simple two person, paper-based system, and yet be able to grow
into a high-end, optimized warehouse management system complete with bar
codes, directed picking and optimized putaway with interleaved
operations, cross-docking, ASN receiving, resource management, and much
more. All of this will be done through a series of configuration
changes, and addition of other open source modules as needed.

The initial configuration of the system is also simplified: a number of
different user Case Studies (templates) will exist with pre-configured
working systems available to test. Thus the warehouse manager could
select one of the provided templates and immediately begin testing to
see if the system meets his needs. It is expected that through the open
source development path the code will continue to expand to meet the
needs of most users.

Visit http://openwms.sourceforge.net for more information. Contact John
Ribar, the picoWMS project manager, at john at picasso-software.com, if you
would like to help in the development, testing, documentation, support,
or financial backing of the project. All of these opportunities are also
discussed on the website.

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James Spinti
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