When managing a Shopify store, there are numerous moving parts, from product sourcing to fulfillment and shipping. As your business scales, keeping track of inventory, orders, and shipments manually can become overwhelming. That's where a Shopify Warehouse Management System (WMS) comes into play. Here we will cover everything you need to know about WMS for Shopify, including why it’s essential, how to optimize your warehouse with SKUSavvy, and tips for maximizing efficiency in your operations.
Forecasting to help automate your purchase orders and keep stock flowing. Enhanced check-in to maintain accuracy and know where to put it
Allocate the inventory which has come over from Shopify into bin locations then treat SKUSavvy as the source of truth for all inventory movement
Use SKUSavvy to fulfill orders easy with batching and intelligent pick routing. Use barcode scanning and pick to tote to efficiently fulfill thousands of orders
Easily manage multiple Shopify locations with an efficient stock transfer workflow. Automate inventory rebalancing across all your locations.
As your Shopify business grows, so do the complexities of managing inventory and fulfillment. Without an effective system in place, you risk stockouts, over-ordering, fulfillment delays, and dissatisfied customers. Here’s why implementing a Shopify WMS like SKUSavvy is essential for your Shopify store.
A WMS gives you control over your inventory across multiple locations, ensuring that stock levels are updated in real-time and preventing issues like overselling or stock shortages
By automating key processes such as stock counts, picking, packing, and shipping, a WMS helps reduce the number of mistakes that occur during manual operations and offers clear visibility into stock locations
Real-Time Inventory Tracking. Multi-Channel Fulfillment. Automated Workflows. Warehouse Optimization. Data and Analytics.
API
Accounting integration
Activity Dashboard
Alerts & notifications
Access controls & roles
Activity tracking
Asset tracking
Audit trail
Billing & invoicing
Barcode printing
Barcode scanning
Cataloging
Contact database
Customer history
Cycle counting
Channel management
Cost tracking
Customer database
Customizable branding
Customization
Data import
Employee management
Forecasting
Inventory management
Inventory replenishment
Invoice printing
Inventory optimization
Inventory tracking
Mobile inventory
Item location tracking
Mobile access
Multi-channel orders
Multi-warehouse location
Order entry
Order management
Order tracking
Purchasing & receiving
Product catalog
PO management
Real-time analytics
Real-time data
Returns management
Retail inventory control
Shipping management
Stock management
Supply chain management
Sales orders
Search/filter
Shipping labels
Status tracking
Supplier management
Third-party integrations
Task management
Visual warehouse layout
Unit of measure
Kitting
Window of delivery
Multi-carrier account
Workflow management
Order tagging
SKUSavvy integrates directly with Shopify, synchronizing all order and inventory data in real-time. This ensures that stock levels are always up-to-date, no matter how many sales channels you use
With SKUSavvy, you can map out your warehouse and create optimized routes for pickers, which reduces travel time and speeds up the order fulfillment process while making it easy to find stock
The SKUSavvy platform is mobile-friendly, allowing warehouse staff to pick, pack, and ship orders using their mobile devices. This flexibility reduces dependency on fixed workstations and increases productivity
As your Shopify store grows, managing your warehouse and ensuring that inventory, orders, and shipments are handled efficiently becomes more complex. A powerful Shopify Warehouse Management System like SKUSavvy is essential to streamline your operations, prevent costly mistakes, and optimize your fulfillment processes. SKUSavvy not only integrates seamlessly with Shopify but also offers a wealth of features designed to automate and enhance your warehouse management, ensuring that you can scale your business with ease. Here are some of the best practices for making the most of a WMS for your Shopify store.
Go with a system that leverages the full Shopify API to sync up all products, inventory, orders, customers, returns, and store data. It is very important to have a complete sync which many systems do not have. The sync should be able to handle order edits, tracking data, returns, point-of-sale, inventory and beyond to ensure your store and the WMS are always in-line with each other.
Make it a habit to review your inventory levels frequently. This will help you catch discrepancies early and avoid issues like stockouts or overstocking. While the WMS should have all the data, there are times when staff or other external issues might not operate as expected and can cause issues. Check early and often to avoid this and keep your store flowing.
Continuously assess your warehouse layout to ensure that high-demand items are located near packing stations, reducing the time it takes to fulfill orders. Additionally you should place fast-moving items at chest height to reduce the burden on staff. There are many ways to enhance the warehouse layout to bring benefits and it should be something that is constantly monitored.
Take full advantage of SKUSavvy’s automation features. Automating tasks such as order routing, replenishment alerts, and shipment tracking will save time and reduce human error. This ends up becoming a cultural thing and as systems advance it should be a priority to have someone who is responsible for 'growing' into the Shopify warehouse management system to always have new functionality leveraged.
With mobile-friendly features, this allows your team to manage warehouse tasks on the go, increasing flexibility and productivity. Being able to update data in real-time while they are out on the warehouse floor not only improves the accuracy of stock but helps to improve a team efficiency across the board.
Ensure that your warehouse team is well-trained on how to use SKUSavvy. Proper training will increase productivity and reduce mistakes.
Use the reporting tools available in SKUSavvy to track performance metrics such as order processing times, inventory turnover, and stock accuracy.
50 orders free then just $0.25-$0.06/order
Everything you need to purchase inventory, move items around, track items, and organize your warehouse
Bring all your orders together in one place to easily make changes then pick, pack, and ship on time
Fulfilling orders is made easier with automated batching and mobile shipping label printing from iOS or Android