Industry one-pager
Logistics, warehousing and freight
Who told that man which bin to walk to? And what did the walk cost you?
What it costs you today
- 01
Work is picked off a list rather than dispatched to a person.
Order of work is decided by whoever reads the screen fastest, the walk path is whatever they feel like, and nobody can tell you how long a putaway should take. Every productivity conversation after that is anecdote against anecdote.
- 02
The 3PL invoice is rebuilt from a spreadsheet on the third of the month.
Storage, handling, value-added work and accessorials are re-derived by hand from movements nobody kept for that purpose. Leakage is invisible by construction: you cannot miss a charge you never wrote down.
- 03
Customer goods are separated by convention rather than by the system.
Quantity that belongs to the company is quantity. A warehouse that cannot separate the first customer's stock from the second's is not a third-party warehouse whatever the contract says — and it will find that out during a claim.
What the system does about it
Directed work, confirmed by scan
One screen, the next task, batched into a work order with count, time, weight and volume limits — and a confirmation that requires scanning the location's check digit, so what is recorded is that the operator stood there rather than that he pressed something.
Owner-segregated stock with billing over the same events
The owner sits on the quantity, with a record rule behind it, and the billing engine runs over the movements and tasks the operation actually produced — so the storage and handling invoice is computed, not reconstructed, and does not change when it is run twice.
The handling unit as the unit of movement
Nested, weighed, labelled with a real SSCC-18, and carrying its owner from the moment it exists. Cross-dock, single-scan moves and 3PL segregation stop being separate features and become consequences of one idea.
The freight file costed while it is still open
Chargeable weight computed on the right basis, duty and excise on the right base, master-to-house apportionment that sums back to the master exactly, and a supplier invoice outside tolerance raising an exception before the margin has been reported.
Built for this, not adapted to it
Logix — Logix is our logistics suite on Odoo 19 — thirty modules and more than four thousand automated tests — and it is where the capabilities above are enforced rather than recorded. It also refuses things: a pallet of one owner will not nest inside another owner's handling unit, a counter is never shown the number he is counting to, a lot expiring inside a customer's contracted shelf-life window will not be picked even though first-expiry-first-out would have taken it, and a customs declaration will not be released without a payment reference behind it.
Next step
Thirty minutes on the phone. We tell you whether we can help and roughly what it takes — before anyone talks about scope or price.