Relying solely on a WMS to run your operations is a recipe for disaster.
But bringing that key data into a Warehouse Operating System can take good operations to world class operations.
And before you tune us out because your I.T. team doesn’t have time for a WMS integration project, take a look at what Carrie Ferrone, Manager, Business Process Analysis at ID Logistics had to say:
With that out of the way, let’s dive into the top 5 reasons why you should connect your WMS to OneTrack.
1. You can capture and validate your load quality… automatically
Raise your hand if you’ve ever gotten the dreaded “This shipment has damages” call.
Without an easy way to validate your load quality, you’re stuck getting blamed for damages when it might not be your team's fault.
Or even worse, you could be missing out on an easy process fix to reduce product damages — but you can’t fix what you don’t know about.
By connecting OneTrack with your WMS, we can mount forward-facing AI cameras onto your loading equipment. These sensors will automatically start recording based on the WMS timestamps to capture the entire loading sequence.
Now when you get that call about damages, you can quickly search the order number and see exactly what happened and what the quality of the product was when it left your building.
2. See heatmaps and travel paths (without making them yourself in Excel)
Carrie said “Our CI engineers used to spend hours building heatmaps for sites around case pick density, safety issues, damages, you name it. With OneTrack it’s all done for you. Just pick what you want to see and it’s right there.”
Talk about time savings.
By connecting with your WMS we can combine timestamps and bin locations with our own proprietary location algorithm to generate heatmaps, travel paths, spaghetti diagrams, and a host of other reports.
3. You unlock AI labor management features
We’ve said it before: Engineered labor standards are broken.
They’re only relevant for a moment in time. But warehouse operations change rapidly — and you still have no idea what really caused that pick to be slow.
By connecting your WMS to OneTrack, it unlocks our suite of OnePX AI labor management tools.
A system that learns your unique operations, brings in key productivity data from your WMS, and shows you the most critical opportunities to improve performance in a single warehouse or across your entire network.
4. Which means you can finally see what goes on between barcode scans
A big part of that is the ability to actually see what happens between barcode scans. In the past you know that an employee started a case pick at 10am and then they didn’t finish that pick until 10:10am.
Your performance KPI for case picks is 10 seconds, why did this one take 10 minutes?
Now you can see exactly why. OneTrack will use the WMS timestamp data and recognize that a certain process took longer than it should have, and then alert your team.
Now you can see:
Was it a process impediment that we need to fix?
Was it willful misconduct (talking in aisle or on their phone instead of working)
Were they helping out with another task but just forgot to log it?
With that kind of visibility you can make massive improvements to your operations.
5. Bring in your key warehouse data into one Warehouse Operating System
Most leaders will say that data-driven operations are non-negotiable today.
But how are you supposed to execute on that when there are dozens of different systems (and manual data-entry or paper processes) that warehouses use today.
Just getting access to that data is already a challenge much less, analyzing it and making actionable decisions with it.
OneTrack can connect to all of your major systems — WMS, LMS, TMS, ERP… you get the idea.
This allows for your most important data to be brought into one location, analyzed with AI, and presented in dashboards that are actually helpful.
That’s what a Warehouse Operating System really is — a single place to run your entire operations.
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