Warehouse Management Systems

Enabling Warehouse Performance Through Smart System Selection & Design

Is Your WMS Helping or Hindering Your Operations?

Many warehouses operate with outdated or misaligned systems that create inefficiencies, errors, and bottlenecks. We help you evaluate whether your current system is fit for purpose – and what alternatives exist.

Our Solution: Comprehensive WMS Consulting Services

We enable warehouse operators to make intelligent decisions regarding systems in their warehouse facilities. Whether your systems and processes are no longer fit-for-purpose or the software is no longer supported, our consultancy ensures you invest in the right solution for your current, and future, requirements. Our team also assists in developing warehouse equipment procurement strategies that align with your operational goals and budget considerations. By analysing the latest industry trends and technologies, we help you identify the best options available, ensuring maximum efficiency and cost-effectiveness. With our support, you can be confident that your warehouse is equipped to adapt to evolving demands and challenges.

We deliver:

  • WMS Assessment: Review of current solutions and identification of opportunities
  • Functional Requirements Definition: Identify functionality to meet current and future needs
  • RFP Management: Proven tender methodology to select new WMS solution
  • Business Case: Support to obtain board approval with compelling business case
  • Project Management: Expert support to manage a successful implementation
  • Post-Go-Live Optimisation: Unlock new efficiencies within an incumbent WMS

Key Benefits

  • Expert Guidance on Feasible Solutions and ROIs
  • Best Practice Workflow Advice
  • Scalable System Architecture
  • Architecture and Integration Advice
  • Future-Ready System Design
  • Support from WMS Assessment to Vendor Selection and Implementation

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Why Work With BoxLogic

  • Extensive experience in logistics and supply chain consulting
  • Independent and unbiased advice of a complex market
  • Wide range of experience of different systems targeting different user requirements
  • Deep expertise in solution design from manual to automation and systems
  • Proven track record across a range of sectors including wholesale, manufacturing, and e-commerce
  • Capability to support the end-to-end project from initial assessment to go-live

GET IN TOUCH TODAY

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+44 (0) 118 309 4030

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Frequently Asked Questions

There are three main benefits of a WMS; Inventory Integrity, Operational Efficiency and Traceability.

Inventory Integrity – maintain high accuracy to ensure availability and minimise stock loss.
Operational Efficiency – utilise standardised processes to drive greater efficiency.
Traceability – trace products across their entire journey through the warehouse.

A WMS can be configured and customised to manage all flows within a warehouse. The most common processes are goods receipt, putaway, storage, picking, packing, shipping, stock check.

A wide variety of solutions are on the market. Gartner divides the market into Leaders, Challengers, Visionaries and Niche Players. Manhattan, Blue Yonder and SAP are considered to be leaders but there are many other providers, each with their own USP.

Other systems can be integrated or sometimes deployed as modules within a WMS. Yard Management Systems control yard activities; Labour Management Systems plan labour, manage training and monitor performance; Inventory Management Systems trace stock across multiple stock locations; Warehouse Control Systems manage automation and other MHE; and Fleet Management Systems monitor fork-lift truck access and behaviour.

On-premise software is installed locally on in-house servers whilst Cloud software is hosted on the software provider’s or a third party’s server. The decision will depend on wider IT policy and whether the business is looking for greater flexibility, reliability and security or it doesn’t want the headache of maintaining and updating its own servers and systems.

SAP is an Enterprise Resource Planning Software (ERP). This means SAP has many modules available within the system, one of which is a warehouse management system, called EWM. They offer different levels of WMS dependant on a business’ required functionality.

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