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What is a Warehouse Optimization System?
Your WMS executes, but which choice is the best one? A Warehouse Optimization System calculates, on top of your WMS, which layout, planning and sequence work best. A one-minute video and a short explanation show what it does and where it stops.
September 2026 · with video
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Warehouse Optimization
Insights on how top warehouses perform and where opportunities lie.
- What is a Warehouse Optimization System? — What it does and where it stops (Sep 2026)
- Warehouse KPIs: what works and what does not — Research among more than a hundred companies (Sep 2026)
- How much extra throughput is left in your warehouse? — Growing within your existing warehouse (Aug 2026)
- Online heatmap visualizes pick activity in 2D and 3D — Visualize busy and quiet zones (Apr 2026)
- How do you break the service paradox? — More service, more dissatisfied customers? (Sep 2025)
- Lessons from four warehouses — Where do their opportunities lie? (Sep 2025)
- What leaders do differently — The difference between top 10% and the rest (Sep 2025)
- How mature is your warehouse? (Part 1) — Action plan for top performance (Jan 2024)
- How mature is your warehouse? (Part 2) — Compare with the market (Jan 2024)
- Cost discontinuities that double warehouse costs — Innocent choices, huge differences (Nov 2022)
- The 9S Principles of Agile Warehousing — Staying agile in turbulent times (Nov 2022)
WMS
From selection to implementation: how to choose and use a WMS effectively.
- Is Manhattan Associates’ AI a game changer for the WMS world? — Four predictions put to the test (Oct 2026)
- AI will be a gamechanger for WMS implementations — How AI is changing the game (Mar 2026)
- AI in WMS: algorithms, machine learning and deep learning — What they can do today and how they reinforce each other (Dec 2025)
- Step-by-step guide to WMS selection — Practical guide in 10 steps (Feb 2024)
- Standard or Custom Software? — Two extremes compared (May 2016)
Trends
Market developments and their impact on warehouses.
- Virtual warehousing: the network as warehouse — Where the stock sits no longer matters (Sep 2026)
- Trends in Warehousing 2024 — What choices are logistics managers making? (Sep 2024)
- Survey SCM Software Trends 2023 — 20 cases examined (May 2023)
- Twenty years of Jeroen van den Berg Consulting — We have learned to pioneer (Jan 2022)
- Silent Revolution in Warehousing — What has changed? (Oct 2019)
Cases
Real-world examples of WMS implementations and warehouse improvements.
- Via Chassé replaces Excel with data-driven container planning — Metrica optimizes 40-60 containers per week (May 2026)
- Warehouse-in-warehouse for Wasco — Solutions for extreme situations (Nov 2021)
- Six notorious pitfalls in the Pluripharm IT debacle — Lessons from a failed ERP implementation (Aug 2018)
- Lessons from the Amazon Fulfilment Center — Unorthodox elements discovered (Mar 2016)
Videos
Short videos about improving warehouses.
- What is a Warehouse Optimization System? — WOS explained in one minute (Oct 2026)
- Highly Competitive Warehouse Management — Video series on warehouse improvement (Jan 2024)
