Logistics on Fire (Oracle WMS) Logfire – an overview

Logfire – a world-class Warehouse Management System (WMS) was acquired by Oracle in 2016 and has since been implemented at a number of best-in-business companies around the world. Goto.com.pk , one of Pakistan’s leading online market-place, is one such company.

We started the Oracle Warehouse Management Cloud (formerly called ‘ Logfire’ ) deployment in August 2017 and completed it in November. Within 3 months, we were able to transform the warehouse operations of Goto.com.pk onto Oracle WMS, enabling the organization to achieve operational excellence, better inventory management, integrated end-to-end business operations and minimized data-entry points. Since Logfire is new to many ERP users, I’m putting some of its attributes for the readers:

1. Logfire provides a simple user-interface, much simpler and easier-to-understand than other Oracle application interfaces making it a user-friendly application.
2. If selected to work as an stand-alone application, this can well work as a single-point solution for warehouse operations. This single application manages Purchase orders, customer orders, ASNs, reporting and analysis, Inbound & Outbound shipments, manifesting, item allocations, bar-coding, wave management, and many other warehouse functions.
3. An extremely easy ‘Web Reports’ functionality lets users create their own reports and customized dashboards within few clicks in a matter of minutes, minimizing users’ dependency of technical resources for creation of new reports or modification in the existing ones.
4. The application has a fair list of APIs available to integrate it with other Oracle applications such Oracle Fusion ERP cloud, Oracle HCM, CRM and other 3rd party web applications (such as Magento) making the data available to users in real-time across the various business applications.
5. Logfire makes it easy for users to search, display, and extract data on all the user interface (UI) screens by providing an extract data button that extracts the selected data onto local devices within a few seconds.
6. Given a simple interface, easy APIs, built-in best practices and quick processing speed, the deployment time for the system is shorter than other ERP applications.
7. Data upload, mass data alteration and master data management is an easy concept when it comes to Logfire. Without asking for too many complicated data fields, thousands of records can be input within a few minutes into Logfire using simple ‘ Input interfaces’ screen.
8. User & roles management is quite simple as well. Someone within an average system administration skills can create 10 users in 5 minutes for example.
9. Alongside purchase & customer orders management, the system has built-in inventory management features making it one complete system for small to large warehouses around the globe.
10. Along with other pros, the system comes with some limitations as well, that include the limited number of PO & Order statuses, a disconnect between orders and order returns, POs and purchase return and inability for the Inbound LPNs (IBLPNs) to be reused are some of the core application issues where there is an obvious room for improvement.

Minus some of the product-limitations, Oracle WMS cloud (Logfire) is a technically-excellent addition in Oracle applications. When used with Oracle Fusion Cloud Procure to Pay and Order to Cash business modules, this system has the ability to add great value to the warehouse operations of industries including e-commerce, retail, logistics, fulfillment and distribution to name a few.

This is an introductory post on Logfire features, I will share some more posts on individual application features for users to better know this product and take an informed decision on its deployment.

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