3PLs and distributors: full counts without the weekend
For small and mid third-party warehouses, distributors and light manufacturers with ten to a hundred and fifty staff. We measure what full counts, overtime and wrong shipments cost you a year, then set up rack counts that take minutes. Pay a fixed quote, or a set share of the savings measured in your own records.
Where the money goes
Counts that close the building
A quarterly or annual physical that stops receiving and shipping for a day or two, with everyone on the floor and overtime on the payroll.
Chargebacks for wrong shipments
Credits, reshipping and client chargebacks logged one by one, each with a cost you already know.
Cycle counters whose job is the count
Staff hours spent walking with a scanner, one label at a time, to keep the client's numbers honest.
What changes
Labels at the level you count
Paper labels on cartons and pallets keep the cost down; on-metal labels where the goods need them. The sample count during the assessment shows what reads through your packing before anything is bought.
Count a rack in a pass
Walk the aisle; the reader picks up every label in range on both sides. The screen lists what it expected and didn't see, and what it saw that belongs elsewhere.
Cycle counts every week, not every quarter
Because a count costs minutes, you run them often, and the annual physical becomes a check instead of an event.
Feed your WMS
Your warehouse system stays the system of record. Counts export as CSV; we're the count layer, not a replacement.
What we'd measure with you
What we'd measure from a warehouse's records. Time spent looking is reported, never billed; how the baseline is set.
| Line | The record | Normalized |
|---|---|---|
| Counting hours | Count schedules, payroll; then the app's count log | Per thousand locations counted |
| Overtime and closed days on count days | Payroll | Per full count |
| Outside count service | Invoices | Per count |
| Wrong shipments | Chargeback log, credits, reshipping | Per thousand orders |
| Write-offs | Inventory adjustments at cost | Share of throughput |
| Time spent looking for stock | Sampled on the walk-through | Reported, never billed |
Good to know
We have a WMS with barcode scanning.
Keep it. The difference is bulk: a barcode needs each label in view, one at a time; the handheld reads every label in range, through cartons. Counts export to the WMS as CSV. Direct connections come after the pilots, built for the systems pilot customers use.
Does it read through pallets?
Through cardboard and plastic, yes, with range dropping as the packing gets dense. Not through metal or liquids, which is why the sample count uses your real goods and the report says what read and what didn't.
Our clients' goods are theirs. Can we tag them?
Tag at the level you count: the carton or the pallet, usually with a paper label beside the existing one. Where goods arrive already tagged, we read those tags.
Where are you?
Florida, working with warehouses anywhere in the US. The assessment and the setup are by video; the reader for the sample count ships to you with a return label.
Find out what the full count costs you
A year of payroll on count days, the chargeback log, a 30-minute video walk-through and a timed count of one bay. Free, and the report is yours.