Function · Process designer Built

Design your flows, deploy them yourself.

The processes that run your warehouse — goods-in, outbound, cycle-count — are BPMN models, not integrator code. openWCS runs them on an embedded Flowable engine, and their service tasks originate real WCS work: device tasks, conveyor routes, order release and goods-in put-away.

How it works

BPMN in, real warehouse work out.

A process is standard BPMN 2.0. Deploy a definition, start an instance, and as the flow advances each service task calls a delegate that drives an openWCS service — so a diagram becomes movement on the floor.

Flowable engine

Embedded BPMN runtime

An embedded Flowable engine runs admin-designed processes, managing its own tables on the shared datasource. Definitions on the classpath auto-deploy at startup; new ones deploy on demand.

Deploy

Model & release

List and deploy BPMN 2.0 definitions as raw XML, then start an instance with a process key, an optional business key and variables — no rebuild, no integrator change request.

Service tasks

Originate WCS work

Service tasks reference Spring-bean delegates: dispatchDeviceTask drives a flow-orchestrator device task, assignRoute a conveyor route plan, releaseOrder an order release/allocate.

Put-away delegate

Goods-in to a slot

The goods-in process includes a put-away delegate, so a received unit flows from the BPMN model straight into a slotting decision and a put-away move — the receipt-to-storage path as a diagram.

User tasks

Wait for an operator

Processes can pause on user/wait tasks — list them by instance or assignee, then complete one with variables. So a flow can hold for a confirm-pick or count step before it continues.

Sample flows

Goods-in · outbound · count

Three processes ship and auto-deploy: goods-in (dispatch a device task), outbound (release → confirm-pick user task → dispatch move) and cycle-count (operator count task).

At a glance

A diagram that drives the floor.

  admin ─► deploy BPMN definition ─► start instance
                                              │
   ┌─ service task ─► dispatchDeviceTask ─► flow-orchestrator ─► device adapter
   ├─ service task ─► assignRoute        ─► conveyor route plan
   ├─ service task ─► releaseOrder       ─► order-management release / allocate
   ├─ service task ─► put-away           ─► slotting decision → put-away move
   └─ user task    ─► wait for operator (confirm pick · count) ─► complete