Features

Must-Have Warehouse Management System Features List – 3PLNext

All Warehouse Management System
Features For Your Business Needs

 

3PLNext brings you all the power-packed Warehouse Management System Features to manage and scale your
business at ease. This technology-backed Warehouse Management System (WMS) is an absolute answer to
the woes of SMBs, Enterprises, and eCommerce firms including the Warehouse Owners.

Complete Warehouse
Management
System Feature List

3PLNext is a one-stop solution to all warehouse mishaps hampering your business. Just imagine, how late inventory restock can affect your business. 3PLNext Warehouse Management System Feature List is not only about restocking options, but also about listing, sorting, packing, shipping, and much more.

One of the most frequent problems eCommerce fulfillment faces is Warehouse Management. 3PLNext effortlessly solves your long-due fulfillment issues and provides the much-needed control to ensure seamless functionality of your business every time.

Warehouse Management
System Capabilities

The diverse functions of a warehouse management system speak for its capabilities. 3PLNext stands tall as a diverse WMS, which takes care of every in-and-outs of your warehouse. All this increases your efficiency so you can put in efforts to steer your business towards growth.

As simple as it sounds, this warehouse management system manages everything from tracking inventory to Ship Verify. With all this, you eliminate all odds and last-minute issues that could potentially lead to unsatisfied clients.

Warehouse Management
System Functions

3PLNext Warehouse Management System Functions are not related to a single process, but to the entire warehouse ecosystem. Consequently, that makes your business efficient by saving on your time efforts, and costs. All this comes true with tons of Warehouse Management System Features you get at 3PLNext.

Track Inventory

Exact Count of Inventory with its correct location and movement details.

Through 3PLNext’s Warehouse Management System, you can keep an accurate track of your inventory in stock, its location and movement.

Our inventory management feature assists your team in moving and updating inventory with accuracy and convenience through an in-built interface. This helps save valuable time on picking and shipping orders by providing information about the exact region and bin where inventory is located in the warehouse.

With 3PLNext, you will be able to track your inventory’s movement. The entire cycle of receiving inventory from the supplier to the time it is shipped out to the customer will be visible to you.

Warehouse Transfers

Inbound and Outbound tracking of inventory from the warehouse.

3PLNext’s Warehouse Management System helps you track inventory when it moves in and out of the warehouse(s) by streamlining the cumbersome task of keeping an accurate and real time count of inventory even during its movement.

Tracking the transfer of inventory throughout the warehouse has never been easier. With 3PLNext WMS, you can transfer inventory between warehouses, between SKUs, between bins, or perform a one-way transfer in or out of a warehouse. All inventory movements are recorded and quantities are maintained accurately.

Picking Orders

Pick, Pack and Ship your Orders accurately to ensure the warehouse is on track for order fulfillment.

3PLNext effectively helps improve the time and accuracy of the order picking process. It helps track, pick, pack and ship the products against open orders, saving valuable time spent on maintaining inventory accuracy. You can also save a lot of money by reducing picking and shipping errors and minimizing order returns and refunds.

Through the Pick lists Feature, 3PLNext can help you sort on product, order, or kits basis, conveniently assemble products and pack them for shipping. To keep inventory numbers accurate for all product locations, you can easily indicate the bin you are picking/ retrieving items from.

3PLNext offers you Zone Level Picking through which you can divide the warehouse into zones where totes or bins move to collect SKUs to fulfill multiple orders. This helps optimize operations, reduce labor costs and profitably manage demand growth.

For large orders or bulky items, Wave Picking (picking multiple orders at once to save time) is the desirable option and 3PLNext lets you pick items from racks, sort them according to the orders before shipping. You can handle Wave Picking both through the mobile app and also through the Web Interface. This helps reduce time, effort and distance required by employees for picking. If implemented correctly, wave picking can improve productivity of your team while keeping operating costs low and making no compromise on accuracy.

PO Receiving

Once new inventory is received into stock, it is made available for sale.

With 3PLNext, you can improve the efficiency of your inventory management operations by receiving new inventory into stock and immediately making it available for sale. It can also help increase the productivity from receiving purchase orders to processing returns.

With 3PLNext, you can scan the barcodes of the incoming products and receive purchase orders through your mobile device. Once the PO is received, physical inventory is updated and becomes available immediately. You can easily see it, receive it, process it, and put it away.

Cycle Counting

Inventory is regularly audited to maintain accuracy.

With Inventory Management being at the core of your warehousing and ecommerce business, you need a system with reliable control to take stock of every item in your inventory. 3PLNext enables you to audit your inventory for the purpose of maintaining accuracy.

3PLNext lets you take charge of your stock, compare quantities in your warehouse bins against the system record, determine count discrepancies and automatically adjust inventory.

Locale Management

Perform precise and thorough inventory tracking using warehouses, regions and bins.

3PLNext facilitates you in utilizing warehouses, regions, and bins for detailed and refined inventory tracking.

You can divide warehouses into regions and assign bins to a region, making it easier for your team to pick orders for shipping through granular tracking.

Ship Verify

Complete assurance that all the shipped orders have left the warehouse.

3PLNext has a safety feature that enables you to verify that your orders are leaving the warehouse safely. This feature ensures that no unknown orders or labels are exiting the warehouse and reaching your customers. You can make sure that any order is not just marked as shipped but actually left the warehouse, checking the validity of the tracking number on the label.

Kit Assembly

Ensuring accuracy of each component’s inventory by listing multiple items as a kit.

With 3PLNext’s Kit Assembly feature, it becomes very convenient to assemble multiple items as a package or bundle by making an inventory or individual items as part of a kit. 3PLNext ensures that all these items are picked and brought under a kit.

Through 3PLNext’s Kit Assembly feature, you can transfer the kit component quantity to the parent SKU, while ensuring that the inventory of each of the components is accurate. This will help you measure sales for both individual components and as part of a kit.

FAQ s

What are the different types of warehouse management systems?

4 Types of Warehouse Management Systems. The most commonly used types of WMS are a Standalone System, ERP Module, Cloud-Based, and Supply Chain Module. They all have unique benefits for different warehouse needs. You should consider many factors before deciding which WMS is going to work best for you.

What is the difference between Wes and WMS?

WMS verifies the information provided by the WES. WES is the automation portion of the warehouse inventory management system. WES provides the data and the software automation of tasks that would not be efficient for most teams to take on.

What is the difference between TMS and WMS?

While a WMS deals with the control of freight while it’s on-site at the shipper’s facility, a TMS deals with the movement of freight to and from their facilities. Some companies use a WMS to manage transportation, and some use a TMS to manage their warehouse, but oftentimes they are unique systems.

What are 2 inventory management systems used in warehouse?

There are four types of WMS systems for 3PL businesses. These are standalone warehouse management systems, supply chain execution modules, integrated ERP (enterprise resource planning) and cloud-based systems