Business Requirements
Catalyst WMS is extensively configurable, which ensures that management strategies are implemented on a consistent and error-free basis. Cycle-counting, for stock-checking on an ongoing basis by task interleaving, without shutting down the warehouse, is supported. Moves, space utilisation, vehicle utilisation (such as for fork lifts), labour tracking, security levels and productivity are all planned for and accomplished efficiently and effectively. A Decision Support System module provides critical feedback on warehouse activities. Optimal combinations of the functions described above are strategically packaged for the Consumer Goods, Retail, Motor Vehicle-Parts, Industrial-Technology, and Process Goods vertical market segments. Catalyst WMS is highly scaleable software that can grow with the customer organisation, whether with one warehouse, or a network of warehouses that all use the same WMS installation. Large organisations leverage the scale of their operations through the advanced interfaces that Catalyst WMS has with market-leading ERP systems, which allow these enterprises to seamlessly integrate their WMS and ERP systems.

Warehouse Management Systems-Flexibility in Implementation
End-customers have the option at the time of implementation to require enhanced or modified features, and Enterprise Application Integration (EAI), for which the Catalyst WMS package is flexible. A team that includes staff of the customer and Catalyst, after initial training of the customer, develops business scenarios and a Conference Room Pilot to configure the software using the customer's parameters. A good implementation management methodology ensures that every step, from project planning to testing, installation and training is accomplished on time, on budget, and on target. Since the Catalyst WMS is a standard product incorporating SCM best practices, there is no waiting time to develop a new software, and an orderly implementation. Transition can be provided in as little as four months, because the team gets down to user-configuration of the software straightaway.

Since 1993, Tata Infotech has been involved in the development and support of Catalyst's open-architecture high-end WMS through several releases of the standard product. Tata Infotech consultants were involved in the development of the industry-changing web enabled WMS 8.0 release. Tata Infotech professionals work to provide unique and complex modifications and enhancements for many of Catalyst's customers across the vertical industry segments, and to follow up each implementation with 24-hour-a-day support worldwide. End-customers include Sony, Reebok, General Motors International, Nestlé, ShopKo, Murdock, Madeus and Schwabe, Dick's Sporting Goods, Family Dollar, Rose's Stores, Inc. and CTI for Compaq, many with exacting delivery schedules and challenging requirements that demand specialised knowledge of several product areas.

Tata Infotech brings technological, functional and project-execution skills that extend the capabilities of Catalyst in a scaleable manner. Technology platforms have extended from a variety of database systems that form the nuts and bolts of the old and new economies to the latest tools that provide the flexibility and user-friendliness of the new economy software. Tata Infotech meets the exceptional range and depth of skills required by a world-class warehouse management system like Catalyst.

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