ERP for 3PL operators, distributors and warehouse businesses
- Platform
- ERPNext / Frappe
- Modules in the build
- 07
- Licensing
- Unlimited users
Bin-level accuracy, scan-verified movement, and client billing generated from recorded activity.
Warehousing runs on where, not how much. Track quantity without location and the book figure and the rack figure drift apart every month.
Essence ERP gives every location an address and every movement a scan. Accuracy follows, and so does the 3PL bill.
What makes this sector hard
These are the failure points behind almost every conversation we have in this sector. A general-purpose ERP solves none of them on its own.
- 01
Location-blind inventory
The quantity is known, the location is not. Every pick is a search, every count a shutdown.
- 02
The wrong batch reaches the bench
Pick-pack-ship slowed by travel time, then undone by a wrong batch or variant at packing.
- 03
One roof, several clients
Each 3PL client needs complete separation of stock, rules and reporting.
- 04
Activity billing always favours the client
Storage, handling and value-added charges rebuilt each month from incomplete records settle downward.
- 05
Delivery status by hearsay
Status depends on someone updating a field, not on carrier data coming back.
What ships in the Logistics & Warehousing configuration
Present the first time you open the system, not raised as a change request three months after go-live.
- 01Six-level hierarchy down to bin, QR-coded and scan-verified
- 02Guided putaway by velocity, size and occupancy
- 03Wave and batch picking on sequenced, scan-confirmed routes
- 04FIFO, FEFO and LIFO by item policy, not picker judgement
- 05Rolling cycle counts, reason-coded variances, no shutdown
- 06Stock segregated per 3PL client, portal included
- 07Activity billing: storage, handling, inbound, outbound, value-added
- 08Courier and transporter APIs: rates, manifests, tracking
- 09Proof of delivery captured, customer notified automatically
- 10Dashboards: dock-to-stock, order ageing, pick accuracy, space use
What clients measure afterwards
Figures reported by businesses in this sector once the system is running. How much of it is available to you depends on your baseline, and we will estimate that honestly during discovery.
- 99.5%
- Inventory accuracy with bin tracking, up from roughly 90%
- 45%
- Faster order fulfilment on sequenced pick routes
- 30%
- More usable space, without leasing any more of it
- 25%
- Shorter delivery times with route and carrier optimisation
- 50%
- More throughput within the same footprint
- Per scan
- 3PL invoices generated from recorded activity
Modules in the base build
- 01Bin-Level WMS
- 02Inbound & Putaway
- 03Picking & Dispatch
- 04Cycle Counting
- 05Multi-Client 3PL
- 06Transport & Delivery
- 07Activity Billing
Anything outside this list is scoped as custom work, in a versioned app that upgrades cannot overwrite.
Built for
- Third-party logistics providers
- Distribution and C&F centres
- E-commerce fulfilment operations
- Cold chain and temperature-controlled storage
- Freight forwarders with warehousing
- Manufacturers running their own finished-goods warehouses
The products this build is assembled from
One industry product does the heavy lifting; the others fill in around it. Each has its own page.
All products
Tell us what is actually going wrong
Fifteen minutes on WhatsApp is usually enough to tell whether an ERP is the right answer for you. If it is not, we will say so.