Revision as of 19:25, 16 November 2005

Welcome to Whistle

Welcome to Whistle, one of today’s most powerful Warehouse Management Systems (WMS) for process manufacturing facilites. Whistle is designed to integrate seamlessly into your company’s current Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software. Whistle will tap the power of your current ERP system and provide you with a fast, cost-effective, efficient, and easy method to manage warehouse transactions.

Benefits of Using Whistle WMS

Whistle offers you a wide range of standard features that allow you to change the way your warehouse operates. Some of the benefits include:

• Collection of real time data
• Optimizing and gaining warehouse space
• Improving order fulfillment accuracy
• Increasing productivity and performance
• Reducing time to find product
• Maintaining accurate real-time inventory balances
• Implementing FIFO distribution models
• Enabling better decision-making
• Improving fresh ingredient and raw material utilization
• Implementing a system of checks and balances

Where to find Help

The Whistle User’s Manual is your first step to gaining an understanding of Whistle. It provides the user with detailed step-by-step instructions on the functions and features of this software.

How to use this Document

This document is designed to be your primary source of reference for all Whistle WMS software operations. The manual has been divided into several sections in hopes of making it as user friendly as possible.

Chapter Two

The Basics includes key information to understanding Whistle fundamentals. Here you are presented with information on how to navigate and interact with the Whistle user interface.

Chapter Three

Whistle System Setup provides a brief overview of system hardware and Whistle architecture. The goal of this chapter is to provide advanced users and system managers with a system overview so that they can better understand and troubleshoot any problems that may arise.

Section II

This section of the User’s Manual contains complete step-by-step information on how to navigate through all Whistle Functions and Menus. A separate chapter is dedicated to each of the Main Menu options. This section contains the most thorough information on how to use Whistle. This section is your main reference on using Whistle.

Section III

This section gives a brief overview of Whistle Installation procedures. This reference section guides you to the proper documentation that you need to successfully install your Whistle system. Whistle is extremely versatile and can be run with a variety of operating systems, databases, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems, and electronic hardware. This section will allow you to successfully customize your Whistle system.

Section IV

This section contains all appendices. Here you will find a glossary of terms and an index