Warehousing solutions are systems designed to control, optimize, and provide visibility into all activities inside a warehouse or distribution center. Their purpose is to ensure products move efficiently through receiving, storage, picking, packing, and shipping—while keeping costs down and service levels high.
The value delivered from warehousing solutions often comes from the optimization capabilities that drive measurable ROI. These go beyond just tracking inventory; they actively make warehouse operations faster, cheaper, and more accurate.
Investing in warehousing solutions is important because the warehouse is no longer just a storage facility — it’s now a strategic hub in the supply chain. Customers expect faster delivery, lower costs, and greater accuracy, and without the right systems, warehouses can easily become bottlenecks.
SCT works with clients to develop organizational capabilities to ensure the right information is collected and presented, with the right simulation capabilities, to enable effective cross-enterprise planning. Benefits we help our clients achieve include:
- Improve operational efficiency and productivity
- Reduce labor costs and drive higher levels of employee satisfaction and retention
- Implement effective order fulfillment and exception management capabilities to deliver a satisfactory customer experience
- Effectively orchestrate work distribution and resource utilization
- Introduce interoperability of automation with agility and repeatability
SCT Advisory supports these critical elements of warehouse management software selections and implementations:
Ensuring critical tasks and deliverables are designed to support repeatable processes specific to the customer environment – including multi-site rollouts, new client setup, new product introduction, etc.
Ensuring critical objectives of the implementation cost savings, scalability, customer service, compliance) are socialized and embedded in design sessions.
Ensuring inventory tracking meets compliance requirements and supports product rotation requirements, while developing efficient warehouse layout configurations to support efficient process design, slotting and movement path strategies.
Ensuring business requirements are addressed and efficient processes for each order profile and channel are developed through all warehousing processes from receiving and putaway, inventory control, picking, packing, and shipping.
Ensuring assignment batching and release balance operational efficiency while meeting shipment dispatch times.
Ensuring effective communication between automation solutions and the WMS for effective work orchestration and exception handling.
Developing day in the life reporting and processes during the critical post-implementation phase into the steady state.
With SCT Advisory’s guidance, Warehouse Management System (WMS) can deliver strong ROI because it directly impacts the biggest cost drivers in warehouse operations: labor, inventory, space, and accuracy. The actual ROI depends on warehouse size, complexity, automation, and baseline performance, but most companies see payback within 12–24 months. SCT observes the following ROI opportunities from supply planning initiatives:
Often, 50–70% of total warehouse operating costs, so this is the biggest ROI driver.
- Optimized picking paths, batch/cluster picking, and task interleaving cut travel time.
- Better workload balancing reduces overtime and idle time.
- Worker productivity improvements of 10–30% are common.
Real-time visibility prevents overstocking and reduces safety stock needs.
- Fewer lost or misplaced items → lower write-offs.
- More accurate cycle counting → less buffer inventory required.
- Slotting optimization maximizes cubic capacity.
- Dynamic putaway ensures fast movers are positioned optimally.
- Barcode/RFID scanning ensures near-perfect accuracy (99%+).
- Reduces returns, reships, and penalties from retailers/customers.
- Improves on-time, in-full (OTIF) performance and customer satisfaction.
- Cartonization and load-building optimize packaging.
- Integration with carriers reduces freight costs through rate shopping.
- Faster dock scheduling and yard management reduce detention fees.
Compliance & Risk Reduction can be difficult to quantify, but may drive the business case on its own…
- Traceability for recalls (pharma, food, aerospace).
- Reduced fines, chargebacks, and lost contracts.
- Supports sustainability by reducing waste.
