Real-time Inventory Management
Winds WMS provides a comprehensive and up-to-date view of all
inventory levels, locations, and movements within your
organization. It allows users to track stock levels in
real-time, enabling efficient order fulfillment, minimizing
stockouts, and reducing excess inventory costs.
Winds also
offers automated streamlined workflows for tasks such as stock
replenishment, returns management, and cycle counting to improve
operational efficiency. Robust reporting capabilities to
generate insights on inventory performance, turnover rates, and
cost analysis for informed decision-making will take your
organization to the next level.
Labor Performance Tracking
Winds WMS provides a powerful tool to enable your organization
to closely monitor and enhance the productivity of your
workforce. By collecting and analyzing employee performance data
in real-time, Winds will allow you to measure KPIs such as
output rates, task completion rates, and overall efficieny to
identiy areas for improvement.
Using historical data trends, the labor module will empower your
organization allocate resources efficiently to optimize
throughput rates and delivery times.
Inbound & Outbound Processing
The inbound and outbound order processing software module is
designed to streamline and optimize the handling of orders
within your organization's supply chain. This module integrates
with various systems such as inventory management, labor
management and incorporates historical trends such as expected
processing times and shift/pickup schedules to facilitate smooth
order processing workflows.
Winds will be able to manage and automate many parts of the
fulfillment process for both inbound (receiving, unpacking,
putaway) and outbound (picking, packing, labeling, routing)
orders to allow for maximum customer satisfaction.
Automated Communications
Winds WMS offers an extensive suite of communication tools, both
internal and external, to automate and enhance the messaging
capabilities of your organization. Send personalized emails and
text messages to customers automatically based on predefined
triggers or actions.
Improve your workforce awareness by sending targeted comms and
communicate with any employee directly via their mobile device
or Winds workstation.
Mobile Workflows
Winds WMS provides an intuitive, easy-to-use mobile app that
will enable your workforce to perform end-to-end order
fulfillment. Employees can process and manage orders directly
from the app, as well as receive real-time alerts for actions
needed or messages from supervisors.
Utilize built-in
barcode scanning functionalities on industrial grade smartphones
to receive, pick, pack, label, and ship product with extreme
efficiency. Winds will direct users while optimizing your
warehouse's floorplan to reduce search times, reduce equipment
bottlenecks, and ultimately improve order fulfillment speed.
3rd Party Integrations & Dev Tools
Winds WMS integrates with multiple ERP systems and ship carriers
to allow you to perform any necessary warehouse operations
directly from our system. Create a ship label with the click of
a button or transfer orders from your organization's ERP system
automatically. Let us know in the comment section below which
3rd party integration you want to see in Winds!
With our robust suite of dev tools, your tech team will also be
able to integrate any existing systems directly with Winds. Use
data transfer methods such as our extensive REST API, our
real-time streaming WebSocket interface, or even our SFTP
flat-file upload and download method.
Pricing
FAQ
Winds WMS is a next-gen warehouse management system (WMS) that aims to bridge the gap between technology and fulfillment. Using technologies ranging from Industrial Internet of Things to AI-powered data analytics, Winds can bring an immediate and powerful impact to a warehouse of any size. Users will be able to monitor warehouse conditions, predict hourly throughput, and analyze operational efficiency through an intuitive user interface. As a modular product, Winds can orchestrate anywhere from a single-person operation to an entire warehouse out of the box with minimal configuration. Winds will also be able to integrate with almost any third-party software product via a wide range of industry standard data transfer protocols.
The 3 primary features of Winds WMS are inventory management, inbound/outbound order processing, and labor performance tracking. Winds also incorporates AI-based data analytics and reporting, user configurable automated communications, an extensive suite of 3rd party integrations, and a comprehensive set of training material and operational manuals to allow organizational self-sufficiency.
Winds WMS offers a scalable, cost-effective solution that works to
empower your organization and your employees to perform with
incredible efficiency, accuracy, and overall productivity. With
real-time visibility and control over all aspects of your
warehouse, it will become impossible to meet your targets.
Employees are able to perform end-to-end order fulfillment
entirely in Winds, reducing expensive training costs for multiple
systems. As an intuitive, user-first designed system, Winds
reduces your onboarding overhead as employees can be up to speed
in a matter of hours.
Being a cloud-based system, any operation is run independent
of on-site hardware, thus reducing the need for extensive
maintenance of physical servers or the risk of costly downtimes.
Winds can be accessed from anywhere in the world with an internet
connection, allowing employees higher flexibility in getting the
job done.
Yes you will! Our focus is to primarily deliver an easy to use system that even a one-man shop can take advantage of. Keep track of your inventory, generate ship labels, and fulfill your orders all in one spot. At a low price point, even small businesses will be able to take advantage of many key features off the get go. Winds grows your business and grows with your business!
Winds offers a comprehensive library of training material, operational manuals, and onboarding guides. Every aspect of the system is documented in easy to understand terms. Winds also features a community-based knowledge share platform that our customers can use to help each other with nuances of the system. Winds will also offer email-based support for any critical or non-critical issue.
Winds WMS will launch as a cloud-based platform in late 2024. Our primary focus is to deliver an easy to setup and easy to use experience for all of our customers. However, for those interested in an on-premise solution, this work is currently slated for development in early 2025. Please let us know below if you have further questions regarding on-premises solutions.
Being a cloud-based system, we are acutely aware of the ever-present threat of security breaches. All customer data is encrypted and isolated at all times (at rest and in transit). Data access control is strictly enforced and all relevant security guidelines are periodically reviewed and updated. Rest assured, we will never sell your data and we will never let anyone besides you get to it.
Yes! You will be able to add as many locations as you want. You will also be able to set up custom rules to share resources (inventory, equipment, employees) between locations.
Many of the analytic features that Winds offers work "behind the
scenes". The system is always optimizing user movements to reduce
bottlenecks, re-allocating tasks based on availability, and
analyzing resource levels to improve throughput rates. Your
warehouse will function as a well-oiled machine with over 99.99%
accuracy and peak performance.
Winds WMS also offers AI-based reporting tools to allow you to
view items that really need your attention. The system identifies
trends in product movements to always keep inventory levels
sufficient, recognizes patterns in user behavior that can be used
for training opportunities, and tracks inbound and outbound rates
to allow you to see operations as a whole.
We pride ourselves on the tenets of the 3 eases: ease-of-setup, ease-of-use, ease-of-understand. Noticing a pattern of over-complication in the modern world, we've set out to simplify one of the largest growing sectors of the global economy. When you use Winds, you won't find yourself wondering how your business is doing or what your employees are up to. From the moment you onboard to Winds, you will not require any hand-holding since the system is designed to make you completely self-sufficient. Of course, we are always here to guide you and empower you with an extensive and ever-growing feature set that will leave you wondering why everything else in your life can't be so simple.
Let us know! Since Winds WMS is currently in development, adding new features becomes a much easier task as our entire bandwidth is dedicated to making customers like you happy! Join the waitlist below and we'll reach out to you to start a conversation.