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What Is a Warehouse Management System (WMS)?

It’s a tool that allows you to optimize, automate, and manage daily warehouse activities, including stock receiving and replenishment, inventory control, warehouse navigation, order packing, and more. WMS is one of the key parts of supply chain management and provides transparency in all of the company’s inventory in real time.

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Main Warehouse Management Features

Features you need to boost your warehouse operations

Warehouse inventory management system

The system uses barcode readers and RFID tags to record incoming and outgoing inventory data, allowing you to effectively monitor items within the warehouse. It provides stock visibility, allows for monitoring the expiration date and shelf life of goods, and optimizes warehouse space. 

Automated replenishment

An advanced WMS goes beyond providing insight into the availability and quantity of goods in stock in real time. It also features predictive analytics to forecast customer demand, based on historical data. Thus, you can understand replenishment needs in advance and procure products in a timely fashion, to eliminate shortages and be able to quickly fulfill a client order.

Warehouse navigation

Since the WMS keeps data on the location of goods, it allows workers to find items easily, minimizing order-picking time. This feature is especially important when it comes to large warehouses, where the same goods can be located in different stock parts. Thus, workers can create optimized routes and increase their productivity.

Order management

To fulfill orders accurately and in the shortest possible time, the WMS automatically creates picking lists, generates picking routes, and provides the workers with rules, such as lists of documents an order must include. The system is also responsible for order prioritization and scheduling as well as providing an optimized packing strategy for each order.

Labor management

The WMS allows for calculating, planning, and dividing the workload among staff, more effectively allocating human resources. The system assigns new tasks automatically, enables managers to control their progress, and provides an overview of employee productivity and performance.

Analytics and reporting

To keep you up to date on your warehouse operations and efficiency, the WMS provides analytics using interactive and customizable dashboards. Advanced technologies, such as AI, enable predictive analytics, demand forecasting, and potential risk analysis, which improves decision-making.

Why Use a Warehouse Management System for Your Business?

HQSoftware suggests considering custom warehouse management system software for your business in the following cases:

  • you aren’t satisfied with existing off-the-shelf solutions due to limited functionality or lack of critical integrations
  • your warehouses are distributed in multiple locations and you need a single centralized management system
  • you have specific niche requirements that are not covered by ready-made solutions

  • you are concerned about the security of business data and need a system with high-level security

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Warehouse Management System Software Development: Why HQSoftware?

A trusted partner that delivers high-quality solutions

  1. Hands-on expertise

    Over the course of 23 years, we have successfully completed over 450 projects for clients in various domains, including e-commerce and WMS solutions that have improved warehouse productivity and reduced costs. We work with large enterprises, small businesses, and startups, as well as 3PL organizations.

  2. Qualified team

    Our team mainly consists of middle/senior specialists with average 4-year employee tenure. For your solution, we pick experts who have already worked with projects in your domain and have hands-on experience to deal with possible challenges. During our collaboration, you can easily scale your development team up or down, depending on the scope of work.

  3. Advanced technologies

    To ensure your solution provides rich functionality, we connect it with all required third-party systems and your existing solutions. The implementation of AI and ML technologies enables predictable demand and labor forecasting as well as advanced analytics.

  4. Maintainable solution

    Since WMS software has to cover many business operations, you may need to expand its functionality over time. So, we look ahead and create a scalable and maintainable solution that enables you to easily introduce new features and improve system performance. 

  5. Predictable time to market

    Depending on functional requirements, we assemble a team in 2-4 weeks to start project development as fast as possible. In the process, we adhere to project management best practices, meeting deadlines and providing project deliverables according to the roadmap.

  6. Customer-focused approach

    We deliver high-quality outcomes, along with seamless and transparent collaboration. You can monitor the development progress via tracking systems, request additional information about any stage of the project, and interact with any member of your team at any time.

Benefits of Warehouse Management System Software Implementation

The business value a WMS provides

99% order accuracy

Visibility of goods in stock, automated data entry, building picking routes, and automatic picking confirmations — all these help workers fulfill orders correctly, increasing customer satisfaction and reducing returns.

20% increase in space optimization

The WMS helps efficiently allocate items to the warehouse according to their size and material. So, it eliminates time-consuming placement and helps put frequently used goods within easy reach of workers.

10%+ decrease in inventory costs

With predictive analytics and advanced demand forecasting, you can determine the ideal inventory levels to satisfy customer demand, minimize overstock, and decrease inventory costs.

30% increase in labor efficiency

Workforce forecasting minimizes over/understaffing, while the creation of picking routes, with visual or voice guidance, speeds up order fulfillment. Automatic task assignments based on workers' skills result in more efficient operations.

30% growth in inventory visibility

The system provides real-time insights into warehouse data. It helps you audit the warehouse to easily check expiration dates, detect damaged or spoiled goods, and avoid missing items.

25% increase in overall productivity

The WMS automates manual and repetitive tasks such as data tracking and recording, reducing errors and eliminating data loss. It also decreases order cycle time and enhances communication between workers.

Types of Warehouse Management System Software

Choose the type suitable for your business model

Stand-alone

On-premises system with limited functionality, running only on the corporate hardware and network. It offers basic features such as warehouse operations and inventory management, at the most affordable cost. This type is suited for a warehouse management system for small businesses.

Cloud-based

Such systems store data in the cloud and provide easy access to it at any time from any location. The benefits of this WMS also include scalability, fast 3d-party integrations, and less maintenance. Ready-made, cloud-based WMS systems typically come in the form of SaaS.

WMS as an ERP module

The integration of WMS with an ERP system allows it to cover as many daily business operations as possible, which besides warehouse management includes finance operations, HR management, marketing and sales, etc.

WMS as a supply chain module

A supply chain management system is comprehensive software that provides visibility of the flow of goods throughout their lifecycle. The system includes the WMS module, order and return management, material handling, etc.

Integrations for Warehouse Management System Software

What integrations do we recommend to enhance your WMS efficiency?

ERP, CRM

Integration with these systems provides you with visibility into all essential business operations, gathering data in one place and offering easy access to it through a user-friendly interface.

Accounting systems

With such systems, you can seamlessly integrate all financial data, such as storage and shipping fees, with your WMS software. It also helps you automate and accelerate billing and invoicing processes associated with warehouse operations.

Vendor management systems

The system allows you to get real-time information on your suppliers’ capabilities and availability of goods, at your fingertips. It also automates the creation of procurement orders, thereby optimizing costs and improving supplier relationships.

Shipping carriers integrations

By integrating with shipping carriers’ systems, you can monitor, automate, and optimize shipping processes, manage shipping rates and overall costs, and ensure efficient delivery and order tracking.

Hardware

This mostly includes barcode scanners and RFI devices to streamline the fulfillment process, cut down on costly manual errors, and ensure accurate inventory tracking.

Sales channels

This can involve integration with your website as well as marketplaces to keep your customers and salespeople aware of item availability. So, you can meet customer expectations and offer high-quality services.

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WMS Technical Challenges HQSoftware Helps to Solve

Take advantage of our hands-on experience and get a high-quality WMS system

Smooth processing of huge amounts of data

Since WMS software must handle a large number of incoming requests and data simultaneously, it’s important to ensure seamless data processing, so you can get up-to-date information at any time. That’s why we focus on creating solution architecture that provides you with a scalable system that sustains any database growth.

Implementing advanced technologies for predictive analytics

To help you optimize your inventory replenishment, we can implement enhanced demand forecasting. It’s based not only on historical data but also on more specific variables such as weather forecasts, holidays, etc. Thus, with Machine Learning technology, you can find a balance between meeting customer demand and reducing inventory costs.

Using mathematical models to optimize navigation

To speed up order picking and increase employee efficiency, we can implement a system that offers optimal navigation through the warehouse. Even if the same items are located in several places at the same time, the system suggests the most optimal route considering the location of the worker and other items they need to collect.

Advanced audit

Even with well-organized receiving and picking processes, human errors are possible. This results in discrepancies between the data in the system and the actual facts in the warehouse. Therefore, constant stock auditing is necessary. We can provide a solution that speeds up audits by generating lists of items to check, verifying expiration dates, providing damage reports, etc.

Customer Stories

450 business goals reached through tech solutions since 2001

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E-3PL System Development: 3x Speed-Up of Logistics Operations

HQSoftware has successfully developed the E-3PL platform that enables fast commerce and automated stock management. This is a breakthrough solution for grocers, retailers, dark stores, and DTC brands.

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Cross-platform Mobile App for Enhanced Warehouse Navigation: 25% Faster Order Picking

HQSoftware developed a cross-platform mobile app with advanced warehouse navigation capabilities. With it, the customer reduced order picking time by 25% and achieved order picking accuracy of up to 99%.

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Extended Module to Enhance Efficiency in Marketplace Operations: 30% Faster Product Management

HQSoftware developed an advanced module for supply chain management software that allows for publishing and management of product catalogs across various marketplaces with little or no manual work.

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Warehouse Management System with Customer Demand Forecasting: 34% Decrease in Inventory Costs

HQSoftware developed a warehouse management system with real-time data visibility and integration of predictive analytics that transformed the client's logistics operations, decreasing inventory costs by 15%

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Comprehensive Platform to Facilitate Collaboration with Suppliers: 2x Faster Supplier Onboarding

HQSoftware has developed a user-friendly supplier management platform that streamlines the onboarding process for new suppliers and provides a centralized interface for efficient collaboration.

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How we create WMS solutions

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Warehouse Management System Development Costs

Factors affecting the total WMS solution cost

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