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Peacocks WMS will be trialled from the end of March 2018 and will be fully implemented by the new financial year in July . This is a tight schedule that has called for close coordination between the Group Warehouse and Distribution Manager and the IT ERP team , which had to ensure smooth connection between the new systems via an API ( application programming interface ) and the PeopleSoft ERP system . Purss takes his hat off to vendors large and small who have put effort into understanding the system and pretesting the end to end process .
As the new PMS beds in , the benefits of Crown ’ s existing inventory management system will come to the fore . Stocktaking will always have to have an element of manual input into checking the number of bottles of gin at a bar , for example , but it no longer involves closing down for the day as staff members tick off items on a paper record . Each month a stocktaking pack including a handheld PDA ( personal digital assistant ) is sent out to the sites and the inventory recorded in an hour , with the information sent to the ERP system . Managers have instant access to the stock at their site , and the procurement team always have the company wide figures available – just one member of Purss ’ team is able to coordinate the stocktake process at 50 different business units in Melbourne . There ’ s better information , less room for error , and any anomalies are quickly seen , he says . “ It is all tied into our POS system which depletes the inventory daily .”
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