WMS stands for warehouse management system; according to the short description of VDI 3601, its task is to manage and optimise a company's internal storage and transport systems.
VDI 3601 is a guideline on warehouse management systems from the VDI, the Association of German Engineers. A related German term is Lagerverwaltungssystem (LVS). The Gabler Wirtschaftslexikon, a German business dictionary, defines an LVS as application software that controls and manages all warehouse processes. Gabler lists six basic functions: goods receipt, order processing, picking, warehouse management, shipping and stocktaking. Neither Gabler nor the VDI explicitly equates LVS with WMS.
In this glossary, WMS means the system a logistics provider uses to run its warehouse. Our business applications Business application In general terms, a business application is software used to perform or support business functions. Read in the glossary → connect to such a system (see Business application).
Monthly reports compiled by hand from figures copied between systems are one example we have seen in pharma logistics Pharma logistics Pharma logistics is the term we use for storing, transporting and delivering medicinal products and other pharma-sector goods, such as promotional material and supplies for patients. Read in the glossary → . Where standard software does not fit the process, that is what we build business applications for.
Where the term appears
- Read more Pharma IT services: Non-GxP software
- Blog Non-GxP in pharma: what we build, what we leave out and where our systems stop
- Blog Straight to the patient, without ever touching their data
- Blog Ordering promotional material without losing control
- Blog How expensive reusable boxes stopped going missing
- Blog Every order confirmed, without anyone touching it
- Blog Stock alerts in pharma logistics: the customer asked for a web shop. We thought it through.
- Blog Proof of delivery in pharma logistics: matched to the client, searchable in a portal
See also
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Pharma logistics
Pharma logistics is the term we use for storing, transporting and delivering medicinal products and other pharma-sector goods, such as promotional material and supplies for patients.
Pharma
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Business application
In general terms, a business application is software used to perform or support business functions.
Pharma
Sources
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Lagerverwaltungssystem (LVS) (opens in a new tab)
Gabler Wirtschaftslexikon (Springer Gabler) accessed
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VDI 3601 Warehouse-Management-Systeme (opens in a new tab)
VDI Verein Deutscher Ingenieure accessed