Why you need a Warehouse Management System

Warehouse management

Accelerated by Covid, the number of companies using a warehouse, or similar space, to process goods or materials through continues to rise. These companies experience issues around tracking inventory, stock control and damages. It is very easy to lose control of all of this without a solution created to help.

A warehouse management system (WMS) or a platform with an integrated WMS will drive efficiencies in the way these goods make their way through the warehouse, even in transit with multiple warehouse locations. These systems therefore seek to save time, resources, and hassle.

Companies need instant visibility on the status of all of their inventory to ensure the full flow, from purchase orders to dispatch, is  smooth and that bottlenecks are avoided.

How do you know if you really need a WMS?

• You are already hard pressed and stressed and the idea of scaling up your operations seems like a step too far
• You and your team are having to complete manual tasks that really could do with being automated
• It takes time to track all of your stock in your warehouse or across several areas
• Mistakes are being made due to the sheer enormity of the operation

How does a WMS solve this?

A WMS allows everything to be simply managed, in one place, with automations, notifications, and full visibility across  the whole operation. From start to finish, the full flow of your work is controlled, and reported on, live, within the system.

Further examples how how a WMS can make the difference:

• Mispicks cut into your business operations and will  impact negatively on your resources and customer satisfaction
• Integrated barcode scanning eradicates mistakes and streamlines warehouse picking and packing
• Improve productivity by the elimination of manual box labelling and the acceleration of stock taking
• Rapid shipments by processing supplier and customer deliveries faster yet with  more efficiency
• Full traceability of all items, even across multiple warehouses making auditing of movements much simpler (Multi Bin)
• Ability to replace out of stock SKUs with approved substitutes at the very point of picking