3PL
Client stock is not a pool.
3PL warehouse operations software should stop a wave from stealing another client’s tote. If cutoffs are a shout and inbound is WhatsApp, the floor will mix the brands when it gets busy.
The problem
Waves run on paper. Inbound lives on WhatsApp. Three clients’ stock shares a floor, and when it gets busy the totes mix. A cutoff is something someone shouts at 13:50.
Returns restock before QC. An ASN at the gate is a rumour until someone opens the doors. SLA by client is a slide, not a list you can open against the wave that is late.
Each wave knows its client, its carrier, and what it must not touch. An ASN can hold a pick. Returns do not cover a short until QC. If a WMS already isolates stock the way you actually pick, we will say so.
What a custom system holds
- Waves against carrier cutoffs
- ASN at the gate that can block a pick
- Client stock isolation — not a shared pool
- Returns that cannot skip QC
- SLA by client on the same picture as the wave
Questions
- How do you keep 3PL client stock from mixing?
- Each wave knows its client, its carrier, and what it must not touch. An ASN can hold a pick. Returns wait on QC. Client stock is not a pool.
- How does a custom build start?
- A twenty-minute discovery call. We watch how work, stock, and money move — including the exceptions a template never modelled. Then a written scope. If a packaged product already covers it, we will say so.
- Where are you based, and who do you work with?
- Metalique Studios is a UK software company based in Chigwell, Essex. We build custom operations software for UK hire companies, workshops, field teams, and other ops-heavy SMEs — in the language those floors already use. See the UK page.
Where we work
If totes still mix under pressure, we should look at how the wave actually runs. Book a short discovery call.