Accuracy & Reliability

Inventory management

Maintaining a reliable inventory is not optional: it is the very foundation of logistics profitability. Any discrepancy between recorded and actual stock generates direct and indirect costs—stockouts that erode sales and customer satisfaction, overstock that unnecessarily ties up capital, and wasted storage space often rented at a premium. These inefficiencies are significant: stockouts and overstocks are estimated to represent 10 to 15% of industrial revenue.

Fox4Work^TM eliminates these drifts: its multiple capture methods (barcodes, RFID scans, automated storage systems and robots, Electronic Shelf Labels—ESL) raise inventory accuracy to 99%, versus 85–90% with barcode-only scanning; its dynamic slotting frees up to 30% of floor space and reduces operator travel by 20–30%. You gain real-time visibility, less tied-up capital and an optimized warehouse without adding a single square meter.

Your challenges

4 key challenges to mastering your inventory

Challenge #1

Stockouts and overstocks

A single stockout can significantly reduce customer satisfaction; conversely, every overstocked item ties up cash and erodes margins.

A modern WMS automates safety thresholds and triggers supplier replenishment or internal transfers before stockouts, while reducing buffer stock. This automated replenishment optimization can increase inventory turns by 10–30% while maintaining 99% service levels.

Challenge #2

Item location

An incorrectly recorded location slows down picking: the operator may travel up to 40% more distance to find the right item—directly wasting time and energy.

Next-generation WMS manage dynamic slotting that relocates fast-moving items to hot zones: travel distance drops by 20–30% and productivity increases accordingly.

Challenge #3

Space optimization

Given the average annual cost of a warehouse in Europe and the United States, poor use of storage locations can waste significant financial resources.

By visualizing density and occupancy in real time, the WMS frees up to 30% of floor space; some sites even recover 40% after re-slotting and automated vertical storage.

Challenge #4

Inspection and audit costs

A full annual inventory ties up entire teams for days; WMS-driven continuous cycle counting spreads the effort throughout the year, corrects errors in real time and avoids warehouse shutdowns.

Auditors therefore have access to a timestamped history for every adjustment, allowing compliance to be demonstrated in minutes.

Stockouts, tied-up capital, poorly used square meters and hours spent searching for phantom items: without a WMS, these issues represent major hidden costs.

Our solution

Reduce inventory-related errors and costs.

To improve inventory management, Fox4Work^TM offers a comprehensive and intelligent approach based on secured movements, automated controls, and real-time visibility. Thanks to advanced technologies—barcodes, RFID, automated storage systems and robots, Electronic Shelf Labels (ESL)—every interaction with your products is captured and tracked, eliminating costly inefficiencies and strengthening inventory control.

99% reliability thanks to triple capture

Fox4Work secures every goods movement through barcode reading, RFID scanning, automated storage systems and robots, and Electronic Shelf Labels (ESL), delivering unmatched accuracy. Where barcode-only inventories reach just 85% to 90% accuracy, RFID integration raises this to 95–99%, and even 99% in some real-world cases. This drastic reliability eliminates virtual locations (“phantom stock”), reduces customer claims, returns and reshipments, and generates direct savings of 20% to 40% on operating costs.

Accurate tracking for improved guidance

The synergy between Electronic Shelf Labels (ESL), Kardex systems, and location tables is revolutionizing logistics tracking. This combination provides instant, physical item location—even without Wi-Fi—turning manual searching into precise guidance. Operators are directed to “hot zones” via dynamic slotting based on pick frequency and seasonality. This optimization reduces picker travel by 20% to 30%, significantly improving productivity and team satisfaction—a valuable gain in time and efficiency for your operations.

Space optimization and real estate savings

Smart location reconfiguration with Fox4Work is based on real-time mapping, freeing up to 30% of floor space—and up to 40% when combined with automated vertical storage solutions. Every square meter reclaimed removes the need to rent or invest in new space, while enabling higher logistics density or new supply-chain initiatives.

Simplified compliance and instant auditing

No more days lost to annual stock counts: Fox4Work^TM implements continuous cycle counting throughout the year, capturing inventory discrepancies as soon as they appear. Every transaction is time-stamped and traced with the user, batch, zone and conditions (temperature, humidity). During an audit or product recall, compliance is proven in a few clicks—with a clear, verifiable, time-stamped history that directly meets GMP, ISO and regulatory requirements.

Thanks to triple capture, dynamic slotting, smart mapping and continuous inventory, Fox4Work^TM turns traditional inventory management into an ultra-accurate, agile, cost-optimized and fully compliant process.

The impact on your logistics performance

Measurable results

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Up to 30% more inventory turns

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Up to 30% productivity gain

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Up to 40% additional space

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Up to 90% faster

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The 4 key challenges a WMS must address

Whether it is an e-commerce hub or an industrial platform, four challenges now dominate logistical performance: maintaining a reliable inventory to avoid stockouts and overstocking, accelerating order picking—which absorbs up to 70% of warehouse labor—smoothing out receiving and shipping to reduce truck dwell time (frequently exceeding two hours), and guaranteeing exhaustive traceability capable of reaching 99% accuracy through the barcode/RFID pairing.

A WMS like Fox4Work tackles these four areas head-on: real-time visibility for every SKU, dynamic slotting and batch picking to eliminate unnecessary travel, dock scheduling and directed put-away to relieve docks, and time-stamped audit logs with live KPIs to move from annual inventories to continuous control.

Discover how Fox4Work addresses each of these challenges—and why mastering them determines a warehouse’s profitability.

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