Warehouse Management Software Implementation in Osimo’s Finished Products Warehouse in Ariston Thermo Group.

The dissertation regards the study of the implementation of a WMS (Warehouse Management System) methodology for finished and semi-finished goods in the Osimo production plant’s warehouse of Ariston Thermo Group, aiming for the improvement of the processes’ efficiency in order to reduce stocking, handling and delivery times of the merchandise. Along the thesis, it is described the working environment in which the speaker is immersed and the general processes and concepts regarding warehousing activities performed in a plant. Some of these are the main indicators used to measure the efficiency of processes, philosophies and methodologies of work and the concepts behind a Warehouse Management System (WMS) software and its main functionalities. The final analysis as the main core of this work, focuses in the analysis and set up of the SAP WMS software implementation which includes the remodeling of the warehouse facilities, the process flow of the merchandise and solutions proposed by the speaker to problems that arose during the implementation. It is also analyzed by the speaker the possibility of implementing within the warehouse, the RFID label tags for the outbound stage of the merchandise as a pilot stage for a future development that has as a long term objective, its implementation in all the warehouses of the group. The positive results that are obtained after the WMS implementation and their discussion is furtherly developed. Future recommendations to continue the improvements with the objective of motivating future speakers are also introduced.