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Our SaaS Warehouse Management System (WMS) has been built especially for multi-channel and e-commerce operations, with the intention of making fulfilment quicker, easier and more cost effective. Whether you are a traditional retailer looking to move online, pureplay e-commerce or multi-channel you’ll find significant benefits from the Peoplevox system.

Here, we break down the core elements of our system that have been built to give you the most efficient warehousing operation available. You can use this as a reference when looking at our systems capabilities, or when seeing how we compare to others.

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Peoplevox WarehouseManagement System

Features checklist

System overviewConfigurationBusiness intelligenceSupply chainIn the warehouseFulfilment

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System overview

Business sectors

Integrations

Users

Warehouses

Locations

Products

Customer orders

Designed for e-commerce, Peoplevox clients range from pure play e-commerce in industries such as fashion and homeware, to businesses with e-commerce, warehouse operations and stores.

Integrate with Enterprise Resource Planning solutions such as NetSuite, e-commerce platforms such as Magento, and carrier software such as MetaPack, using our suite of off-the-shelf integrations.

Choose how many concurrent users you need to support your warehousing operation. Easily add more users to your system during peak times and remove them again when you are quiet.

Manage one or multiple warehouses. Operate each warehouse independently; access data across all warehouses to accurately track your operations.

Map your warehouse in Peoplevox. Logically group and sequence locations to optimise flow. Use containers to move groups of items, and quarantine for damaged stock.

Set up product information directly in Peoplevox or import it via integrations or files. View live inventory figures and use them to feed your e-commerce website.

Enter customer orders directly into Peoplevox or import them via integrations or files. Choose when and how to pick and despatch orders. See when stock to fulfil orders is unavailable or needs replenishing.

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Purchase orders

Despatches

API

Mobile barcode scanning

Cloud printing

System updates

Offline

Current & historical data

Enter purchase orders directly into Peoplevox or import them via integrations or files from other systems. Receive goods against purchase orders and track purchase order fulfilment.

Scan picked items to see despatch details. Print labels and documents. Split orders over multiple packages. Display package suggestions and use carrier integrations to reduce pack-bench decisions.

Communicate with external systems or manipulate data before sending/receiving it by writing into our API.

Move freely around the warehouse using mobile hardware (e.g. android devices) to carry out operations such as receive, pick and stock movement.

Choose which local printers will print your documents and labels. Print from the web and mobile application. Re-print in the event of printer issues.

Regular updates let clients benefit from latest features and bug fixes to the Peoplevox system.

Continue mobile warehouse operations in the event of local network issues.

Report on warehouse perfromance, perform year-on-year comparisons. Spot trends. Investigate queries.

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Configuration

Configurable process flows

Customised labels & documents

Print rules

Kitting and bundles

Composite barcode handler

Multiple barcodes per supplier

Customise process flows to suit your operation; for example, choose whether to automatically approve stock take variances and when to scan locations during pick.

Create A4 documents using our document designer. Create and upload your own customised labels using external design software such as ZebraDesigner.

Control which documents and labels get printed at despatch using configurable print rules.

Sell kits or bundles, and Peoplevox will be able to pick and despatch the individual products that comprise them.

Scan a barcode that contains product and unit of measure data, and Peoplevox will know the quantity without the need to scan each item.

Source a single product in Peoplevox from multiple suppliers and Peoplevox will recognise which product the supplier barcodes relate to.

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Business intelligence

Reports

Configurable reports

Export data

Dashboards

Configurable dashboards

Run system reports for up-to-date metrics and detail on a wide range of warehouse operations from goods-in to despatch and user activity.

Customise and share system reports. Choose whether to show details or summaries; all information or information meeting specific criteria.

Perform specific data analysis by exporting data from Peoplevox and manipulating / analysing it in external tools of your choice.

Run system dashboards to see and track up-to-date key metrics for your warehouse operations clearly.

Choose what to display on your dashboards by creating your own set from your customised reports.

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Supply chain

Receive

Reconcile

Returns

Scan items into the warehouse by receiving against purchase orders, goods-in reference numbers or by item; or choose to receive whole deliveries at once. Print documentation.

Compare what was received against what was expected on the purchase order or goods-in reference. Choose to reconcile automatically or to trigger the reconciliation manually and take action on each variance reported.

Process returned items against sales orders. Customise return reasons to help you track why items are returned. Identify which items are resellable and can be returned to inventory, and which are not.

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In the Warehouse

Put-away

Register

Move & Remove

Pick facereplenishment

Manage failed picks

Stock adjustments

Customisable put-away rules let Peoplevox tell users where to put items that have been received into the warehouse.

Get goods recorded in a location in the warehouse quickly. Useful if, for example, you find items on the warehouse floor.

Move items or containers from one warehouse location to another, or remove from warehouse. View and track stock movement via reports.

Know when to bring stock forward from bulk and how much to move. Replenish when pick face quantities fall below user-defined minimum pick face quantities, or below what is needed to pick current orders.

Handle failed picks (picks that had an issue with one or more item/location combinations) by checking the item/location and taking action by, for example, removing damaged stock or repairing a damaged location.

Manually adjust the quantity of an item in a location, giving a reason for the adjustment. Useful for managing failed picks and processes outside Peoplevox that affect inventory.

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Inventory count

Inventory variance

Containers

Count inventory by performing a stocktake on a location or container. Peoplevox compares the inventory you scan with what it expects to be there and produces a variance report listing any differences.

Accept a variance if you agree with the stocktake value; reject if you agree with the system value. Establish stock in new locations by stocktaking these (empty) locations and accepting the variances.

Perform warehouse activities such as move and despatch on large quantities of items at once by using ‘containers’ - large holders which sit in a specific location or can be moved around the warehouse.

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Fulfilment

Create & manage picks

Pick

Unit of measure pick calculator

Smart re-routing of failed picks

Unpick

Repack

Control and track when and how to pick orders. Choose from a wide range of efficient methods to suit your orders and product types, whether they be small e-commerce or large wholesale orders.

Receive pick lists to mobile devices, and follow on-screen instructions of what to pick next from where. Pick methods range from one person picking one order to multiple order batch picks.

Define units of measure for an item to increase efficiency, such as an inner and outer case size, to allow that item to be picked by the case instead of having to scan each individual item during the pick.

Reduce incomplete picks by following on screen instructions for alternative locations if items cannot be found in the directed location. Skip problem items.

Remove a picked item from a pick if there is an issue; for example, if it gets damaged during the pick. Follow instructions to pick another of the same item.

Move picked items between locations and containers prior to despatch. Use as few containers as possible by packing efficienctly to minimise shipping costs.

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Despatch by item / sales order

Despatch by load

Quick despatch multiple orders

Despatch package suggestions

Pack bench printing

External carrier interface

Scan a picked item or sales order to see what else needs to be despatched for that order, where it is and if it is ready to despatch. Pack items in one or more packages, add carrier info and print documents and labels.

Despatch multiple sales orders for one customer using a single load reference. Use when a group of pallets contains all items for all the orders, but orders are split across pallets and pallets contain a mixture of orders.

Despatch orders quickly without having to scan items. This allows you to despatch from your office when, for example, picking has been handled by a process or system external to Peoplevox.

Display customised packing suggestions on-screen at the packing bench to reduce decision-making for the operator and increase efficiency for despatch.

Print (or reprint) appropriate despatch documentation and labels for your orders at the pack bench using customised print rules. Increase efficiency and reduce errors.

Link external carriers using our integrations or OpenDespatch. Send despatch package details then receive carrier, shipping and tracking data, and print documents on local printers.

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Peoplevox was founded in 2009 when CEO and Founder Jonathan Bellwood realised that his frustrations with bad warehouse management systems were shared by many business owners, warehouse managers and technical teams in businesses of all sizes around the world.

We specialise in helping brands, pureplay e-commerce and multichannel retailers improve their people management, efficiency and performance of their fulfilment needs and we offer a truly fit for purpose WMS solution, capable of handling the complexities and pace of e-commerce and multi-channel retailing.

The easily accessible, configurable and scalable software-as-a- service (SaaS) warehouse management system (WMS) has enjoyed considerable success and is already relied on by more than 100 Clients in 20 countries, including such well-known brands as Barbour, Intersport, Mothercare and The Range. Over 1 million items were successfully shipped using Peoplevox on Black Friday 2015.

As a mobile-friendly cloud-based system, Peoplevox puts powerful e-commerce logistics software at the user’s fingertips, enabling maximum convenience and productivity. Its flexible open architecture also allows easy integration with all leading e-commerce sales, marketplace, delivery, ERP and accounting platforms such as NetSuite, Magento and MetaPack.

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