The planning process is a certain series of actions to develop targeted decisions regarding the work of the warehouse in the future. Planning item – WMS system aimed at providing, against the background of the optimal use of which the goals are achieved, which determine its development. In turn, development is considered in the following aspects:
– integration and coordination of targeted work; – identification and reduction of risks; – reducing the complexity of the problem; – increased flexibility.
The WMS system is a set of planning, management and control processes, connected by a common goal and interconnected in terms of time and resources. Each organizational structure differs from others in its own planning system with only its inherent form, set of methods and instruments of development of plans. The planning system affects the construction of an information system of the leader, which is necessary to take into account all the relationships in organizing and making managerial decisions. It can be represented as a set of complexes of relevant plans and considered in the following aspects.
Each complex is associated with the planning of both functionally independent, designed for a specific stage in the development of the enterprise, and aimed at achieving the general ideas of the organization. This approach traditionally leads to three types of hierarchical planning: descending; ascending; Counter.
Descending – planning in the WMS system in the direction from top to bottom: the management of the organization establishes the highest goals to employees of the warehouse, determines the general policy, develops the main target settings for all departments and levels of management; Global tasks are converted to detailed plans for specific areas of responsibility.