Regardless of whether your company manages the distribution of its own products or outsources logistics services to a 3PL, the need to support reverse logistics cannot be overlooked. Reverse logistics is a critical product life cycle phase and is often an opportunity to capture additional revenues that would have been lost without supportive systems.

The ability to provide reverse supply chain services is heavily dependent upon your warehouse management systems' capabilities. PowerHouse/WMS provides the ability to process all types of returns and offers a high volume returns module that has optimized returns processing for many publishing and third party logistics companies.

Creation of Return Material Authorizations can be accomplished through PowerHouse or can be downloaded from your business systems. Trading partners with advanced systems may want to take advantage of integration touch points supporting EDI, ASN’s and various other forms of notification.

Upon return receipt PowerHouse provides process controls to move goods further along the reverse supply chain. Disposition of goods may require returns to the manufacturer, refurbishment, placing items back into available to promise inventory, disposal and many other paths.

With PowerHouse/WMS goods can be easily inducted and assigned conditions that will enable systematic directed moves to process the inventory efficiently adding profits to the bottom line.