Judge warehouse software by jobs: receive, putaway, pick, ship, count, locations, barcodes, lots and devices — not by menu labels.
Inbound: appointment or ASN, receive, optional QC, putaway. Overages, shortages and damage are first-class. Outbound: pick from a ship order, pack check, block short stock or bad expiry before the truck leaves.
Available, hold, QC. Moves and splits are stock transactions, not silent edits. Without location master data, PDA hardware is theatre.
Receive, putaway, pick, count. The device is a worker UI. A responsive website on a scan gun is how people go back to paper.
Waves, complex allocation and fancy dashboards. A small warehouse that still picks by order can postpone waves. Stabilize receive-putaway-pick-ship first. We do not claim every site needs every module on day one.
You can start rules on PC. The floor will desync if people write paper and type later. Weak radio aisles need an offline plan.
No. When one order already walks the whole building, waves become a first-phase topic. Until then they are optional.
When the commodity needs them. Food and pharma usually do. A fasteners cage might not. Name the rule; do not buy a slogan.
Photograph a receive note and a pick list. We will tick v1 features from those documents, not from a brochure matrix.