计算机外文翻译--------仓库管理系统（ wms ）.doc

The evolution of warehouse management systems (WMS) is very similar to that of many other software solutions. Initially a system to control movement and storage of materials within a warehouse, the role of WMS is expanding to including light manufacturing, transportation management, order management, and complete accounting systems. To use the grandfather of operations-related software, MRP, as a comparison, material requirements planning (MRP) started as a system for planning raw material requirements in a manufacturing environment. Soon MRP evolved into manufacturing resource planning (MRPII), which took the basic MRP system and added scheduling and capacity planning logic. Eventually MRPII evolved into enterprise resource planning (ERP), incorporating all the MRPII functionality with full financials and customer and vendor management functionality. Now, whether WMS evolving into a warehouse-focused ERP system is a good thing or not is up to debate. What is clear is that the expansion of the overlap in functionality between Warehouse Management Systems, Enterprise Resource Planning, Distribution Requirements Planning, Transportation Management Systems, Supply Chain Planning, Advanced Planning and Scheduling, and Manufacturing Execution Systems will only increase the level of confusion among companies looking for software solutions for their operations.

仓库管理系统（ WMS ）的演变与许多其他软件解决方案是非常相似的。最初的系统用来控制物料在仓库内的流动和贮存，仓库的作用正在延伸到包括轻型制造业，交通运输管理，订单管理，和完整的会计制度中。利用与先前的业务有关的软件，制造资源计划，作为一个比较，材料需求计划（ MRP ）开始作为一个规划要求，原材料的生产环境的系统。 物料需求计划很快演变成以MRP系统，补充调度和容量规划为基础的逻辑制造资源计划（ MRPII系统）。最终MRPII系统演变成企业资源规划（ ERP ），吸收所有的MRPII系统的功能包括充分的财务与客户和供应商管理功能。现在，无论仓库管理系统演变成一个以仓库为中心的ERP系统是一件好事或不可达的辩论。清楚的是，在仓库管理系统，企业资源规划，布局规划要求，交通运输管理系统，供应链计划，高级计划与排程，以及制造执行系统之间扩大重叠功能性只会增加那些寻找软件解决方案业务的公司混乱水平。
尽管仓库继续获得额外的功能，最初的仓库管理系统的核心功能还没有真正改变。其主要目的是控制管理系统在工艺操作相关联的交易中的流动和材料储存。定向采摘，定向补充，定向收集是仓库的关键。从一个软件供应商到另一个在一个管理系统中详细的安装和处理可以有一个很大的差别，但是其基本逻辑将使用相结合的项目，地点，数量，度量单位，并以收集信息以确定在哪里储存，在哪里挑选，以及以何种顺序执行这些操作。