OPAL WMS - WCS

With over 40 years of expertise, OPAL is a unified, modular, and agile software suite that transforms warehouse management. Combining the capabilities of a Warehouse Management System (WMS) and a Warehouse Control System (WCS), OPAL orchestrates all automated and manual operations across your supply chain, ensuring smooth and optimized control of your inventory, AGV/AMR fleets, and order fulfillment flows.

OPAL, a modular approach at the core of your WMS / WCS

OPAL adapts to your operational challenges, whether you’re managing activity peaks or meeting specific requirements. Thanks to its flexibility, OPAL continuously optimizes the flow of your handling equipment while complying with your business rules and constraints:

• Intelligent management of inventory and conveyor systems
• Optimization of order picking processes
• Precise control of AGV (Automated Guided Vehicle) fleets
• Dynamic management of locations and replenishments
• Real-time traceability of logistics flows

OPAL delivers speed, accuracy, and traceability while reducing order preparation times. Its agile and responsive architecture adapts to all distribution channels, enabling real-time control of every operation. OPAL integrates easily with any market-leading information system, providing a comprehensive and unified intralogistics vision.

Designed to combine performance with cybersecurity, this software suite is highly configurable, allowing you to activate only the features relevant to your installation.

OPAL Control a real conductor for optimizing storage, AGV fleet, transit and order preparation management.

Analytics includes management dashboards and analytical functions with KPI's and operational reports

Notifications allows you to be alerted in real-time, of functional and technical incidents and risks in your installation

IT monitoring, available to your IT or monitoring department, detects IT problems on servers, networks, databases

INTEGRATION AND SECURITY

Connectivity and visibility

Connection with other information systems (WMS, ERP, MES...) to participate in global-vision intralogistics and beyond

Cybersecurity

• Certification ISO 9001 & ANSSI recommendations
  
• Security By Design approach
• Redundant architecture

OPAL WMS optimizes all the movements of handling equipment, taking into account your business rules and constraints.

This warehouse management system combines the management of all intralogistics operations in a single application and offers a global view of your flows to monitor your site's activity in real time.

Receiving and shipping

Pre-reception and reception

• Management of ASNs (Receipt, Creation, Modification, Deletion)
• Receipt Management with Load ID/SSCC Scanning
• Dispute Management
• User Interface Allowing Definition of Storage Zones Linked to Load Types

Loading, Shipping, and Cross-Docking

• Dock Inspection and Loading
• Management of Shipments and Cross-Docking
• Returns Handling, Quality Control, and Restocking

Quality control and stocking

Quality control

• Dispute Logging at Receiving
• Adding/Removing Hold Reasons (Dispute/Quarantine) during Quality Control
• Creation and Modification of Dispute Reasons Upon Request
• Transfer of Defective Parcels or Quantities Between Loads
• Management of Disputed Loads: Destruction, Return to Supplier

Stocking

• Various Storage Methods
• Storing Full Pallets or Full Parcels
• Flexible Configuration of Storage Zones by Product Type / Load

Stock management

OPAL offers many useful features for managing automated or manual storage:

• Weight and dimensions control
• Locations and rotation classes management
• Product characteristics management
• Reorganization
• Management of stacker cranes
• Product management by batches
• Use-by dates management (best-before dates...)
• Full traceability of loads
• Real-time mapping of storage
• Consignations management
• Batch locking / unlocking for quality control and quarantine
• History of movements

AGV-AMR fleet management

Our AGV-AMR fleet management module optimizes AGV movements according to all the events of your installation:

• Management of flows and crossings between AGVs, maximizing movements combinations
• Assignment of missions to AGVs according to their status and location on the installation but also according to the required reactivity criteria
• Remote control of AGVs, visualization of their status
• Guidance of AGVs on their layout
• Consideration of environmental constraints (height limit, slow down, etc.)
• Optimized management of recharging or changing batteries
• Real-time connection with the intelligences of your site (ERP, WMS, MES, PLCs, etc.) for better synchronization of movements
• Synoptic: real-time visualization of the complete AGV fleet but also of the physical interfaces
• Replay function to analyze a period of your activity

Order preparation management

OPAL an optimize the performance of your order preparation whether manual or robotized:

• Preparation of orders by robot on the pallet, by homogeneous layer, or by package
• Preparation of pallet orders in Goods-to-Person
• Products addition or picking on the load at the operator station
• Pick-to-Pallet, Pick-to-Belt functions

Our algorithms allow optimized preparation adapted to your rules and your products, particularly:

• Management of quantities , quarantines and inventories
• Packages sequencing on the pallet
• Management of dates per customer
• Management of contracts on date and non-returns date
• Respect for the rules of non-mix of products on the pallet
• Pallets sequencing management
• Product management by batches
• Management of use-by dates (Best before date...)
• Sampling for quality control
• The weight control ensuring process reliability
• Management of VAS (Value Added Services) at the station

Horizontal flows management

• Material Handling management (conveyors, shuttles, robots, etc.), routing
• Scheduling, balancing and optimization of flows
• Management of anomalies and rejections
• Control by external software (WMS, ERP, MES) or manual
• Traceability

Operating assistance modules

OPAL includes several complementary modules that provide a rich functional coverage for execution and system supervision.

OPAL ANALYTICS

Drive performance with custom KPIs.
Turn your data into decisions. Access customizable dashboards that reveal the key indicators of your performance for informed choices.

• Multigraphy dashboards, configurable by the user
• Production indicators display in real time
• Data historicization for trend analysis
• Standard indicator pack
• Additional specific indicators
• Open Data: access to source data according to your existing tool

OPAL NOTIFY

Stay informed, react instantly.
Never miss a critical event again! Receive real-time notifications for maximum responsiveness and proactive management of unforeseen issues.

• Viewing alerts by category
• Acknowledgment, filtering
• Management of configurable priorities
• Push email or mobile mode
• Viewing details of a history alert

OPAL IT MONITORING

Anticipate and resolve issues before they impact your operations.
Monitor, detect, and resolve IT incidents before they disrupt your workflows, thanks to intelligent, real-time tracking of your infrastructure.

• Monitoring of IT resources necessary for the proper functioning of the system
• Alerts
• Detection of problems on servers, networks and databases
• Open and easily integrated

A customized support

OPAL is a solution developed, integrated and maintained 100% by Alstef Group experts.

All our teams are mobilized to bring you the most efficient, agile and scalable solution.

System Expertise

The Alstef Group IT team works hand in hand with the business team and the pre-project team during the design of your system.

Through the analysis of your needs, processes, data and performance criteria, we design a customized solution that provides you with a global logistics system adapted to your specificities.

Simulations and emulations

In order to understand your needs and propose the best solution during the project, we use an emulation tool to validate the software deliverable, in interaction with the equipment but also with your information systems.

We validate the performance of the designed flow on the whole system in a realistic context.