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Warehouse Management Software in Kent

Warehouse Management Software for businesses across Kent. Cube Systems supports Maidstone, Canterbury and Royal Tunbridge Wells with implementation, data migration and UK-based support. Talk to us on 01234 672 617.

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We work with businesses right across Kent, and the pattern is a familiar one: a system that was right when it was bought, extended past the point of sense, and now propped up by spreadsheets nobody wants to own. Warehouse Management is the part of that most people want to fix first.

A warehouse management system that lives outside your order system creates exactly the problem it was bought to solve: two sets of numbers and an interface between them that fails quietly. CubeERP’s warehouse management is part of the same platform as sales orders, stock and despatch, so a pick is against a real order line and a short-pick is visible to the person who has to ring the customer. Directed put-away places goods where they should go rather than where there is a gap, pick paths are sequenced by location, and packing verification catches the mispick before it becomes a credit note.

  • Scan-directed

    New pickers productive within the hour

  • At the bench

    Mispicks caught before the label prints

  • Automatic

    Tracking pushed to the customer on despatch

What it does

Inside warehouse management software

The parts of CubeERP that make up warehouse management. Everything here shares one data model, so nothing needs re-keying between them.

  • Directed put-away

    Goods-in scanning suggests the right location based on product velocity, size and existing stock - rather than leaving it to whoever is on the forklift.

  • Wave, batch and zone picking

    Pick single orders, batch multiple orders across a wave, or split a pick by zone - with pick paths sequenced by location so nobody walks the warehouse twice.

  • Packing verification

    Scan each item into the carton before the label prints. Mispicks are caught at the bench, where they cost minutes, instead of at the customer, where they cost a credit note.

  • Carrier integration

    Labels, manifests and tracking numbers for the major carriers, with tracking links pushed back to the customer automatically on despatch.

  • Transfers and replenishment

    Inter-site transfers with in-transit visibility, plus automatic replenishment from bulk to pick face when a location drops below its minimum.

  • Throughput reporting

    Picks per hour, lines per order, mispick rate and on-time despatch by day and by picker - so improvements can be measured rather than asserted.

In practice

Problems this actually solves

Anonymised, but not invented. These are the situations businesses describe to us before they change anything.

  1. Peak season chaos

    The situation

    A distributor tripled order volume in the run-up to Christmas and coped by adding temporary staff who needed a week of shadowing before they were useful.

    What changed

    Scan-directed picking meant temporary pickers were productive within an hour, because the handheld tells them where to go and what to scan. Peak was covered with fewer agency hours than the previous year.

  2. Credit notes from mispicks

    The situation

    A wholesaler was issuing several credit notes a week for wrong items shipped. Similar-looking products stored next to each other were the usual culprit.

    What changed

    Packing verification requires every item to be scanned into the carton against the order line. Mispicks reaching the customer effectively stopped, and the returns handling that came with them stopped too.

  3. Nobody knew if despatch would clear

    The situation

    The despatch manager could not say at 2pm whether the day’s orders would go out, so the carrier cut-off was a nightly gamble.

    What changed

    A live despatch board shows orders picked, packed and awaiting collection against the cut-off. Resource gets moved at midday rather than at five o’clock.

Local coverage

Warehouse management across Kent

Our Kent coverage includes Maidstone, Canterbury, Royal Tunbridge Wells, Medway, Ashford and Folkestone, and the ME1, ME2, ME3, ME4 and ME5 postcode districts. If you are in Kent and not on that list, we almost certainly still cover you, so ask.

Postcode districts

  • ME1
  • ME2
  • ME3
  • ME4
  • ME5
  • ME6
  • ME7
  • ME8
  • ME9
  • ME10
  • ME11
  • ME12
  • ME13
  • ME14
  • ME15
  • ME16
  • ME17
  • ME18
  • ME19
  • ME20
  • TN1
  • TN2
  • TN3
  • TN4
  • TN8
  • TN9
  • TN10
  • TN11
  • TN12
  • TN13
  • TN14
  • TN15
  • TN16
  • CT1
  • CT2
  • CT3
  • CT4
  • CT5
  • CT6
  • CT7
  • CT8
  • CT9
  • CT10
  • CT11
  • CT12
  • CT13
  • CT14
  • CT15
  • CT16
  • CT17
  • CT18
  • DA1
  • DA2
  • DA3
  • DA4
  • DA9
  • DA10
  • BR8
  • TN17
  • TN18
  • TN19
  • TN20
  • TN21
  • TN22
  • TN23
  • TN24
  • TN25
  • TN26
  • TN27
  • TN28
  • TN29
  • TN30

Areas we cover

Maidstone, Canterbury, Royal Tunbridge Wells, Medway, Ashford, Folkestone, Dover and Tonbridge.

Getting to you

Roughly 80 miles from our office in Olney, Buckinghamshire. Discovery, training and go-live are done on site as standard - not because it looks good on a proposal, but because most of what a system needs to know is learned in the building.

Warehouse management elsewhere in Kent

How it happens

What implementation actually involves

The same process wherever you are, and for Kent it is done in person.

  1. Discovery

    A structured session mapping how you work now - the systems, the spreadsheets and the bits held together by one person’s memory. We come back with what the platform covers as standard, what needs configuration, and what needs building.

  2. Configuration

    Your structure, sites, roles, approval chains, document templates and permissions set up to match the business - not a demo tenant with your logo dropped on it.

  3. Data migration

    Existing records brought across and reconciled: customers, stock, bills of materials, employees, holiday balances, contracts. We migrate, you check, then we cut over.

  4. Training & rollout

    Role-based training so people learn the parts they actually use, with a pilot team first where it makes sense. Documentation and short screen recordings left behind for new starters.

  5. Ongoing support

    UK support from the people who built the platform, with a named contact, agreed response times, and a product roadmap you can influence.

You might call it something else

Warehouse management goes by a lot of names - if you searched for any of these, this is the page you wanted.

  • WMS software
  • Warehouse management system
  • Pick pack despatch software
  • Order fulfilment software
  • Distribution software

Questions

The things people ask first

  • No. Most sites start by mapping their existing locations into the system exactly as they are, then use the resulting movement data to justify any re-layout. Doing it in that order means the changes are evidence-led.

  • It can via the API, but you will get far more from it as part of CubeERP - because then a short-pick, an allocation and a customer promise are the same data rather than three systems trying to agree.

  • The common UK carriers are supported directly, and others can be added - most publish an API for labels and tracking. Tell us who you use during discovery and we will confirm before you commit.

  • The handheld interface tolerates brief connectivity loss and re-syncs when the connection returns. If parts of your warehouse have no signal at all, that is worth fixing, and Crushed Ice does that too.

Related

Other things we can put right

Also available in Kent.

Part of a bigger systemExplore CubeERPWarehouse management is one part of CubeERP. You can start here and add the rest later - it is the same system, not a separate purchase bolted on.

Working in Kent?

Warehouse management for your Kent business

Tell us what your current system does badly. We will tell you whether CubeERP fixes it, and what it would take.

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