VARGO^® Warehouse Execution System (WES): COFE^®

COFE^® was the first and remains the most advanced Warehouse Execution System available! COFE^® organizes and optimizes order fulfillment by sequencing and synchronizing workflows. This solution ensures the most efficient use of all work resources — space, equipment and personnel.

What is COFE^®?

Continuous Order Fulfillment Engine (COFE^®)

COFE^® resides between the WMS and work resources, as the WES
COFE^® is a real time, closed loop, pull system
COFE^® prioritizes, sequences and synchronizes work
COFE^® is waveless, continuously incorporating new work into current batch
Waveless enables a constant batch size, this improves pick density and pick productivity
Ideal for high SKU count, parcel operations
COFE^® can be customized as a full suite of features that will execute work throughout an entire fulfillment center or to only manage warehouse controls

Why COFE^®?

Over 20 years of proven workflow execution across many industries with incredible peak volumes year after year

COFE^® provides speed, efficiency and labor savings to your fulfillment operation with Vargo constantly looking at new ways to improve overall throughput from picking to packing
COFE^® is pull-based, starting at the pack out process then creating new work based on that availability for the most continuous and efficient flow possible, focusing on cubby cycle times
COFE^® is not a monolithic, enterprise software with expensive extensions, but rather a nimble, modular, distributed architecture and configuration-based system with dynamic visibility for operators
COFE^®utilizes the latest automation technology that is proven to provide a return on investment for your operation from picking, induction, consolidation, sortation, matching, packing to shipping

The COFE^® System

Built from the ground up, COFE^® WES is a message-based workflow manager that interfaces with any MHE, PLC, or hardware automation including robotic arms, shuttles, AMRs and more with dynamic, real-time decision making

Utilizing a distributed architecture and microservices, COFE^® can be scaled to meet specific volume of an operation
As either an On-Premises, Cloud-Hosted or Hybrid Edge solution, COFE^® will be designed to meet the customer architectural and infrastructure requirements
Once the interface messaging fields and mechanism has been defined, the COFE^® system will be built and configured to become the “brains” of the fulfillment center, synchronizing and optimizing across all processes and resources
Action and visibility are provided to operations via browser-based dashboards and reporting with the COFE^® View tool set as well as through hand-held devices from picking to put-to-light systems
COFE^® will manage any and all processes in a fulfillment center from put-away to replenishment, picking, routing, induction, sorting, matching, problem resolution, shipping, workflow management, user authorizations and more
This centralized platform will reduce IT complexity, reduce repetitive systems and interfaces, lessen custom modifications, provide centralized business rules and order attributes, and simplify upgrade pathways, resulting in lower level WCS as pure machine control