Automotive components
Ship to the OEM schedule, with the trace to prove it.
Auto component plants run on OEM schedules, with heavy and light parts side by side, returnable packaging and customers who expect a batch trace on demand. Crystal WMS directs put-away with heavy-item preference, picks in waves against the schedule, plans each truck's load and keeps the chain from steel coil or casting to dispatched part.
What the store holds
- 01Castings & forgings
- 02Machined parts
- 03Bought-out parts
- 04Fasteners
- 05Rubber & plastics
- 06Packaging
The questions
What this store has to get right, every day.
These are the problems we hear first from stores in this industry.
OEM delivery windows
Late dispatch is a line stoppage at the customer.
Heavy and light together
Parts that must go to floor-level bins, and parts that shouldn't.
FIFO by batch
Old stock first, every time, across many bins.
Quality holds
Suspect batches held without stopping everything else.
The answers
How Crystal WMS handles it.
Each answer is a module you can read about in full.
- Wave pickingOne walk per wave, pick lists sorted by bin.Sales orders & wave picking
- Load plan and dispatchKnow it fits before loading; documents and gate pass in the flow.Packing, load plan & dispatch
- Directed put-awayHeavy-item and oldest-stock rules in the bin ranking.Put-away
- Batch traceabilityEvery dispatched part traced to its batch and receipt.Traceability
Other industries
Same discipline, different material.
See Crystal WMS on a automotive components store.
Thirty minutes on a call: we walk one of your items from the gate to the truck, on your process, and answer the questions your team brings.