"A Warehouse Control System (WCS) is a piece of software that that sits between the Warehouse Management System (WMS) and the lower level equipment controls of a distribution center materials handling automation system, such as a high-speed sortation system.
For example, the WCS likely will monitor at a detailed level all the sensory inputs, and directs the conveyors to start, stop, merge and all the myriad other activities needed to make the conveyors operate. (See graphic below.)
That’s easy to say at a high level, but the scope of the WCS can range from performing very basic “middleware” functionality, in which it primarily serves as an information bridge between the WMS to the conveyor controls, to being a sophisticated software solution that, as a category, is increasingly encroaching on traditional WMS territory."
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