Compliance & product recall

Full traceability and reporting

Any blind spot in movement history can block a shipment, distort a KPI or extend a product recall; audits show that a mock recall must retrieve 100% of batches within four hours to remain compliant. At the same time, management requires consolidated indicators—service level, OTIF, inventory turns—to make fast decisions and correct deviations before they result in downtime or customer penalties.

Fox4Work^TM turns every barcode or RFID scan into a time-stamped, geo-located event signed by the operator; even without Wi-Fi, data is stored on the device and synchronized once the signal returns. Aggregated in real-time dashboards, it feeds more than 50 KPIs and heat maps that reveal bottlenecks and stockouts before they affect the customer promise.

Your challenges

The 4 challenges of traceability and reporting

Challenge #1

Tamper-proof log

Every receipt, transfer or shipment must leave an irrefutable trace: user ID, batch, temperature, location. Yet many warehouses still record this data on paper, making the chain of evidence fragile and hard to reconstruct.

A detailed digital log becomes essential to meet GMP, ISO or large retail requirements; without it, quality accountability relies on scattered records and costly reconstruction in the event of a dispute.

Challenge #2

Real-time visibility

Operations teams need to know immediately which items are at risk and which areas are saturated. Yet many ERPs refresh inventory status only D+1, leaving planners to operate blind.

A live control tower displaying heat maps, 'stockouts today' and picking wave progress allows labor to be reallocated within minutes rather than at day’s end, before shortages block a line or docks overflow.

Challenge #3

Proactive alerts

Inventory below threshold, truck dwell time over 45 minutes, productivity below 90%: without instant alerts, these drifts are only discovered in the weekly report, when it is too late to avoid overtime or transport penalties.

Calibrated notifications — email, SMS, or mobile push — triggered by dynamic thresholds give supervisors time to act: follow up with a supplier, open an additional dock, or reallocate staff.

Challenge #4

Ad-hoc reporting & audit

Building a “Daily Ops” report or a weekend summary remains a manual Excel task in many warehouses, requiring CSV exports, consolidation and formatting—often at the cost of human error.

A report builder (CSV, PDF, Power BI) schedules automatic delivery to Supply Chain teams and management, while multi-year history feeds predictive analytics capable of forecasting dock congestion or seasonal underperformance weeks in advance.

Scattered paper archives, KPIs frozen from the previous day, no alerts: without a WMS, the traceability chain breaks down, decisions are delayed and even the smallest product recall becomes a costly headache.

Our solution

Track, analyze, anticipate: the Fox4Work^TM control tower

Knowing a batch is no longer enough: you must be able to trace its journey instantly, detect discrepancies live and rely on actionable KPIs. Without this, recalls, audits and decisions get bogged down. With Fox4Work^TM, every time-stamped scan feeds real-time dashboards; more than 50 indicators and alerts help prevent stockouts, congestion and penalties.

Tamper-proof audit log

Fox4Work^TM records every receipt, transfer or shipment in a time-stamped, tamper-proof log: user ID, batch, temperature, shocks and internal GPS are captured even without Wi-Fi and then synchronized automatically. This chain of evidence meets GMP, ISO and BRC requirements; during a mock recall, the HSE/Quality team isolates in under ten minutes the pallets to block, the customer served and neighboring batch numbers—where the industry average still exceeds four hours.

Real-time dashboards and heat maps

The Fox4Work^TM control tower aggregates more than fifty KPIs: service level, OTIF, inventory turns, hourly productivity, dock waiting time, and more. Heatmaps highlight bottlenecks—overheating red zones—and one click on “Stockouts today” displays at-risk items and suggests replenishment or internal transfers, turning visibility into immediate action. For each stage (Inbound reception, Storage, Inventory, Shipping), the dashboard breaks down metrics by workstation, activity type, user, and pick time, ensuring operational granularity. You instantly see who is doing what, where, and when; peaks, delays, or underperformance are detected and corrected in real time.

Proactive and predictive alerts

When minimum thresholds are reached, truck dwell time exceeds 45 minutes, or productivity drops below 90%, Fox4Work^TM triggers an email, SMS, or mobile notification to act before deviations result in overtime costs or lost customers. Even better, over five years of stored history feeds an analytics engine that predicts dock congestion, seasonal underperformance, or critical item stockouts weeks in advance, allowing time to reallocate resources or adjust supply plans.

Drag-and-drop reporting & instant compliance

Thanks to the report generator (CSV, PDF, Power BI), the “Daily Ops Pack” for the supply chain and the “Weekend Recap” for management are sent automatically, without parallel spreadsheets or manual handling. During an FDA audit or a customer inspection, evidence is provided within minutes: electronic signatures, processes, temperatures, loading photos. Paper binders are a thing of the past; compliance becomes a business asset rather than a constraint.

Fox4Work^TM turns traceability into a real competitive advantage: you move from fragmented tracking to live visibility, anticipate shortages and bottlenecks before they cost a cent, prove compliance in minutes, and run your supply chain on living data—exactly what world-class logistics requires today.

The impact on your logistics performance

Measurable results

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Up to 99% accuracy

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Recall reduced by 80–90%

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-20% dead stock

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From several days to just a few hours

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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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