What is a Warehouse Management System Anyway?

At Eleets 3PL, we do everything we can to help companies in a wide range of industries adapt to the e-commerce boom. No matter which kinds of items you sell to your customers, the explosion in online ordering in recent years creates some new logistics challenges and can be a source of stress for your warehouse. Fortunately, there's an elegant solution. We're talking about a warehouse management system.

What it Does

If you're wondering what a warehouse management system, or warehouse management software, does, it's all in the name. These programs help you manage the day-to-day operations of your warehouse and offer a variety of benefits. A warehouse management system includes software, but it also uses some other equipment. Handheld scanners and label printers, for example, are a big part of a modern warehouse management system. Together, the parts of a warehouse management system can handle most of your operations far more accurately than you and your employees could on your own.

A proper warehouse management system tracks customer orders. It can tell you when inventory is coming in and guide receiving and put-away. Our software can help you optimize your picking process and ship ordered items out as soon as they're available. Warehouse management software will even tell you when it's time to reorder something, so you don't have to manually go through your inventory to see what needs to be on that next truck coming in.

How You Benefit

Obviously, software that can do all of those things can end up making life much easier. That's why we're such a proponent of our warehouse management systems. You'll see the benefits of implementing such a system almost immediately.

First, inventory tracking will be far more accurate. You'll know exactly what you have in stock. You'll know which new items are coming in and when. You'll know what needs to be picked, and you'll know what needs to be reordered. This leads to more accurate picking, a reduced number of errors, and can help you adapt to changing conditions and market demand quickly.

A warehouse management system also helps you get ordered items out to customers even faster. As we mentioned, accuracy has improved as well, which means that the odds of accidentally picking the wrong item and sending it to the customer has declined. This means two things. First, your customers are going to be happier. They get the exact item they ordered and they get it quickly. Second, you don't have to deal with the expense of a return and a potential lost sale.

A warehouse management system also gives you plenty of data, which means that you can more effectively predict seasonal trends and order the inventory that you need. Certain items might sell better or worse depending on the time of year, and a warehouse management system can help you order exactly what you need to make more sales while reducing the amount of inventory that's sitting around your warehouse, not being ordered.

Your Warehouse and Logistics Experts in Santa Ana, CA

If you're looking for a way to improve the efficiency of your warehouse operations while increasing customer satisfaction, the experienced warehouse logistics team at Eleets 3PL is ready to help. See how a warehouse management system can change your business. Once you use one of our warehouse solutions, you'll wonder how you ever lived without it.