WMS for third-party logistics

Third-party logistics (3PL) providers face unique and demanding challenges in managing logistics and compliance for each customer. Their operations are characterized by a diverse range of customer requirements, making their environment more complex than that of traditional distributors and wholesalers. Key challenges faced by 3PL providers include:

• Constant monitoring and improvement of service and efficiency levels
• Ongoing cost reduction efforts to remain competitive in this challenging sector
• Increasing consumer expectations for faster deliveries and product availability
• Constantly changing customer base with multiple sites in different countries
• Meeting complex, specific, and rapidly changing customer needs
• Storing and transporting hazardous or perishable goods while complying with industry-specific regulations

To address these challenges, transparency and real-time business intelligence across the entire supply chain are key. These improve visibility for customers, facilitate tracking shipments and enable quick adaption to changing customer needs.

• Highly configurable solution
  Our 3PL Warehouse Management System is highly configurable. By defining the roles, rules and workflows, the system adapts to clients’ individual requirements, without the need to code for specific clients or projects. This allows you to manage your business across multiple sites, clients and countries, regardless of location, language or currency.
• Multi-client warehouse management
  The WMS offers client-specific workflow components, including: appointment scheduling, inbound processes (directed receipt and put-away), inventory management (cycle count, replenishment, etc.), 3PL value-added service (kitting, light assembly, special processing, etc.), outbound processes (waving, picking, packing, etc.), carrier management.
• Revenue assurance
  By automatically invoicing the client for every chargeable activity, our billing engine ensures that 3PLs are paid for all services they provide. Unlike other systems, where invoicing is an add-on to a distribution-based WMS, the billing engine is an integral part of the application, ensuring high compliance and accuracy. Once the rules are configured, the system enforces the work activities for each client, calculating and accruing the charges in real time.
• Client-specific configuration
  Our 3PL tools enable you to manage your customers’ business processes, based on client-specific parameters. Individual processes can be configured for each combination of location, customer, supplier, recipient and product, ensuring a tailored fit for every application. This automatically ensures your order fulfillment complies with your customers’ service level agreements (SLA).

We bring a wealth of expertise in warehouse management across various sectors and geographic locations. Our leading portfolio of warehouse management solutions, combined with our extensive implementation experience, enables us to help you optimize your entire warehouse operations. Specifically tailored for 3PL warehouse management, our purpose-built and highly adaptable solution can adapt to the evolving needs of your clients.