The warehouse tells the system what happened, as it happens.
Early accessWarehouse Management Software in Stevenage
Need warehouse management in Stevenage? CubeERP implements and supports warehouse management software across Stevenage, St Albans, Watford and Hemel Hempstead and the wider Hertfordshire area.
- Part of CubeERP
- Stevenage, Hertfordshire
- 01234 672 617
Being well within our regular travel radius from Olney, Stevenage is somewhere we get to regularly.
Discovery, training and go-live are all better done in the room, and at 27 miles that is entirely practical.
A warehouse management system is not a stock list with extra fields. It is a set of instructions: where to put this, what to pick next, in what order, into which container, onto which pallet, for which vehicle. CubeERP directs the work rather than recording it afterwards. Put-away is suggested from bin rules and velocity; picking is sequenced by route to cut walking; packing verifies by scan so the wrong item cannot leave; and the carrier label, tracking number and customer notification all come from the same despatch. Because it is the same system as sales, purchasing and production, there is no interface to maintain and no nightly file to blame.
- Directed
Put-away and picking, not guesswork
- Scan
Verified packing before it leaves
- Auto
Labels, manifests and tracking emails
What it does
Inside warehouse management software
The parts of CubeERP that make up warehouse management. Everything here shares one database, so nothing needs re-keying between them.
Directed put-away and picking
Bin rules, item velocity, size and weight determine where stock goes and the order it is picked in, so the shortest sensible route is the default rather than a matter of experience.
Wave, batch and zone picking
Pick by order, by wave, in batches across multiple orders, or by zone with consolidation - whichever suits the profile of that day’s work.
Verified packing
Scan-verified packing with carton contents recorded, so a mis-pick is caught at the bench rather than discovered by the customer a week later.
Carrier integration
Rates, labels, manifests and tracking for the main UK and international carriers, with tracking numbers pushed back to the order and emailed to the customer automatically.
Licence plates and pallets
Pallet and container identifiers so a whole unit can move, ship or be counted in one scan, with contents known at every stage.
Warehouse performance
Lines per hour, pick accuracy, dock-to-stock time and open work by zone - measured continuously so a problem is a trend rather than a bad week somebody noticed.
In practice
Problems this actually solves
Anonymised, but not invented. These are the situations businesses describe to us before they change anything.
Picking by memory
The situation
A distributor’s pick accuracy depended on two long-serving staff who knew where everything was. New starters took months to become productive, and holidays were visibly painful.
What changed
Directed picking on scanners made location knowledge unnecessary. New pickers reach full productivity in days, and accuracy no longer varies with who is on shift.
A warehouse laid out in 2009
The situation
Fast-moving lines were spread across the building because that was where space existed when they were introduced. Pickers were walking miles a day for no reason anybody had chosen.
What changed
Movement analysis drove a re-slot by velocity, and put-away rules now keep it that way. Walking distance dropped substantially without moving a single rack.
Three courier portals
The situation
Despatch keyed addresses into three separate carrier websites, printed labels, then emailed tracking numbers manually. Two people were effectively employed retyping addresses.
What changed
Carrier selection, labelling and manifesting happen from the despatch record. Tracking reaches the customer automatically, and the retyping job disappeared.
Local coverage
Warehouse management across Hertfordshire
We cover Stevenage and the surrounding area, including Town Centre, Old Town, Pin Green, Broadwater and Shephall, across the SG1 and SG2 postcode districts. We also work with businesses in St Albans, Watford and Hemel Hempstead and elsewhere in Hertfordshire.
Postcode districts
- SG1
- SG2
Areas we cover
Town Centre, Old Town, Pin Green, Broadwater, Shephall, Bedwell, Gunnels Wood and Stevenage Business Park.
Getting to you
Roughly27miles from our Olney office
Discovery, training and go-live are done on site as standard - not because it looks good on a proposal, but because most of what a system needs to know is learned in the building.
Warehouse management elsewhere in Hertfordshire
- Warehouse management in St Albans
- Warehouse management in Watford
- Warehouse management in Hemel Hempstead
How it happens
What implementation actually involves
The same process wherever you are, and for Stevenage it is done in person.
- 1
Discovery
A structured session mapping how you work now - the systems, the spreadsheets and the bits held together by one person’s memory. We come back with what the platform covers as standard, what needs configuration, and what needs building.
- 2
Configuration
Your sites, warehouses, price lists, approval limits, document templates, workflows and permissions set up to match the business - not a demo tenant with your logo dropped on it.
- 3
Data migration
Customers, suppliers, parts, bills of materials, price lists, open orders and stock balances brought across and reconciled. We migrate, you check the numbers against the old system, and only then do we cut over.
- 4
Training & rollout
Role-based training so the order desk learns the order desk and the warehouse learns the warehouse, with a pilot group first where it makes sense. Documentation and short screen recordings left behind for new starters.
- 5
Ongoing support
UK support from the people who built the platform, with a named contact, agreed response times, and a product roadmap you can influence.
You might call it something else
Warehouse management goes by a lot of names - if you are searching for any of these, this is the page you wanted.
Questions
The things people ask first
If you have fewer than a few thousand picks a week and a small building, stock control with scanning is usually enough. Directed workflows earn their keep when the building is large, the team changes often, or accuracy is contractually important.
Yes. Existing location labels can be imported, and where they are inconsistent we would rather relabel during implementation than build permanent workarounds around a numbering scheme nobody understands.
The main UK parcel and pallet networks, plus international integrators. Where a carrier has an API we integrate directly; where they do not, we produce their manifest format. New carriers are a configuration exercise, not a project.
Third-party and customer-owned stock are held and reported separately from your own. Bonded and duty-suspended stock is supported where the customs regime requires it to be tracked distinctly.
Container receipts can be booked against the purchase order with landed costs - freight, duty and clearance - apportioned across the lines, so item cost reflects what the goods really cost to get here.
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Part of a bigger system
Warehouse management is one part of CubeERP. You can start here and switch the rest on later - it is the same system, not a separate purchase bolted on.
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