How E-Commerce Businesses Can Scale Faster with Canary7 WMS and Acumatica!

Canary7 is a fully-featured e-commerce warehouse management system (WMS) that helps businesses tackle common challenges as they grow:

• Inaccurate/Outdated Inventory Records: Canary7 provides real-time visibility of all stock on hand, in transit and on order for the most up-to-date view.

• Errors During Order Fulfillment: Features like automated picklists, bin slotting and barcode scanning help catch errors early.

• Inflexible Workflows: Businesses can easily configure workflows for different orders, products or seasonal peaks.

• Bottlenecks and Inefficiencies: Role-based dashboards give managers insight to optimize workflows, layouts and labor allocation.

• Scaling Space and Equipment: Canary7 scales to support additional facilities, equipment like conveyors or robots as needed.

Improving Accuracy and Productivity

By ensuring staff are picking the right items efficiently, Canary7 WMS helps businesses fulfill orders accurately the first time. Studies also show it can boost overall warehouse productivity by 10-30% through features like:

• Zone Picking for faster consolidated order fulfillment
• Voice-Directed Picking for 100% accuracy confirmation
• Labor Management tools to track KPIs and incentivize workers
• Paperless workflows by replacing physical paperwork
• Automated put-away and replenishment processes

This translates directly to reduced fulfillment costs, faster order processing times and better on-time shipping rates – even as volume increases.

Accelerating Shipping Performance

Delivering orders on-time is crucial for customer satisfaction as e-commerce businesses scale, so integrating fulfilment with optimized carrier selection and shipping is key.

Synchronizing Systems for Seamless Shipment

Canary7 is fully integrated with Acumatica allowing order status updates to flow between the two systems automatically. As soon as an order is ready, packing slips and labels can be printed directly from Canary7 or via the Acumatica dashboard.

Detailed tracking data like weight, dimensions and Hazmat attributes also sync to Acumatica to ensure cost-effective carrier selection. Integration with major carriers like UPS, Fedex, USPS and DHL then sends tracking details back to notify customers.

Optimizing the Shipping Experience

By combining packstation automation, multilevel sorting and scale integrations, Canary7 takes shipping accuracy and speed to the next level. Features like:

• Batch Label Printing: Speeds up printing for multiple orders at once
• Split Shipping: Automatically separates large orders across carriers
• Rating Engine: Finds the lowest cost delivery option
• Analytics: Tracks on-time shipping performance over time

Give e-commerce businesses tighter control of the entire fulfillment lifecycle from order to delivery. They can reliably meet or exceed customer expectations for shipping, no matter the volume.

Scaling Financial Management

While order and warehouse management systems might seem like the main focus, scaling also requires tight integration with financial processes to maintain operational control.

Boosting Financial Visibility

Acumatica ensures e-commerce businesses have full visibility into real-time P&L, margins and cash flow as they expand order throughput. Key benefits include:

• Automated Invoicing: Invoices can fire off and integrate with payment processors as orders ship.
• Expense Tracking: Labor, material and overhead costs across all facilities are recorded centrally.
• Inventory Costing: FIFO, weighted average or standard costing methods keep stock costs accurate.
• Multi-entity Management: Supports operations across countries seamlessly through its multi-book capabilities.
• Financial Reporting: Pull insightful reports on orders, shipments, sales and more when needed for analysis.

Maintaining Financial Governance