Introducing the Unleashed Warehouse Management App – A WMS especially for Small Business | Unleashed

Warehouse workers cost you money. Mistakes cost you money - and frustrate your customers. And the more orders you ship the more these problems are amplified. Good software can solve a lot of these issues, but it turns out there aren’t really any software products for running warehouses designed specifically for smaller firms.​ Problems with most WMS systems, from the perspective of a Small Business: Costs are prohibitive: Warehouse software is usually designed for 3PL level operations and starts at around US$500 per month, going all the way up to US$10,000 per month. For small businesses these solutions are often overkill, too complex and require serious configuration investment​. Hardware adds more cost, with ruggedised mobile scanners up to US$1,700 each.​ ​- A good WMS needs to be portable. Sure you could add multi-bin capabilities into inventory software and call it WMS - but that’s still not a great match for what you need. Inventory systems are designed for desktop use, but in a warehouse you need mobility. You need easy-to-follow workflows that temporary staff can use with little training, and you want an interface that removes the rest of the noise to concentrate on the very specific set of tasks warehouse workers do. These issues have fairly serious impacts:. Either you’re stuck paying a lot for overspec’d software, or - more likely - you just do without. And that leaves your warehouses in a sort of operational gap. ​ Pick lists get done with pen and paper, then reconciled at the end of the day into your software​ Multi-bin locations get recorded off system, or rely on a sort tribal knowledge of where replenishment stock might live​ And you lose visibility of expiry dates for perishables because your system can’t keep track of the different places batch-tracked stock might be​ The end result is pick accuracy floating around 70%​. Returns costs of US$20,000 to US$30,000 a year​. Unreliable paper-based audit trails​, and at least US$2k in annual worker time spent on avoidable admin​. ​ ​So it's a great set of problems to solve.​ And this is the solution we’ve come up with:​ The Unleashed WMS app is a mobile-first warehouse management module natively integrated with Unleashed. It turns a standard smartphone into a barcode scanner, eliminating that operational gap between the office and the warehouse floor. ​ It is designed to be simple, native, quick to deploy, and affordable. In short, it’s “The Warehouse in Your Pocket"​. This is specifically designed for small businesses, so it’s far cheaper than a full WMS, while delivering the accuracy and features you need to get off paper systems. ​ It lets you run a warehouse with with multi-bin location awareness - with fast-moving areas for daily picking, which are then replenished from slow moving storage areas. ​And if you use batch tracking for managing the age of your goods, the app will automatically have your staff pick the oldest goods first (or the goods that will expire first). Or, if your order requires a specific batch number it will guide them to that. ​ #warehousemanagementsoftware #wms #inventorymanagementsoftware #inventorymanagementsystem #inventorymanagementsystem Learn more about the world's favourite inventory management software: http://www.unleashedsoftware.com Visit the free Unleashed Inventory Management Training Academy:    • A Guide to Product Transactions Tab in Unl...   Start a free two-week trial of Unleashed: https://www.unleashedsoftware.com/sig...