OREANDA-NEWS. March 27, 2012. Fujitsu today announced the immediate availability of LOMOS/TM-SaaS, a service for the Japan logistics industry that provides inventory operations support.

The new service employs barcodes affixed to products in inventory and wireless handy terminals (wireless HHTs) to enhance the efficiency of operations such as inbound inspections, picking (transporting products from inventory in response to orders or shipping instructions), outbound inspections, stocktaking, and inventory transfers. This, in turn, enables exceptionally quick and accurate shipping and improved service quality for recipients, while at the same time offering paperless operations through the deployment of wireless HHTs.

The service is provided as a SaaS-based solution that leverages the Fujitsu Group's highly reliable datacenters. As a result, customers do not have to build and operate their own systems, thereby enabling rapid rollout of service at a low cost. This makes it easily deployable for small and mid-sized businesses that have hesitated to deploy an IT system due to cost and operational workload concerns.

LOMOS/TM-SaaS was developed by Fujitsu Advanced Engineering Limited, which possesses a wealth of experience in developing systems for the logistics industry.

In recent years, in an effort to enhance service quality for recipients, companies in the logistics industry have taken measures to improve shipment accuracy and to shorten the time between shipping order receipt and delivery. Companies have therefore been deploying systems to enhance the efficiency of inventory operations. At the same time, the deployment costs and operational workload required to bring together the servers, software, PCs and other components needed to build an ICT system has become a challenge.

To address these issues, Fujitsu is releasing LOMOS/TM-SaaS, a low-cost, quickly deployable SaaS-type inventory operational support system that allows companies to reduce their operational workloads.