WMS Gaps Cost 7 Minutes Per International Order. We Fix It.
Manual workarounds for WMS gaps, like processing international customs forms, cost 3PLs 7 minutes per international order, leading to holds and returns. We implement targeted AI automation to purchase labels outside the WMS and upload them back in, eliminating these manual steps and preventing costly customs delays.
From the Source
"One of the employees told me he would spend for each international label... seven minutes. And the reason is that their WMS couldn't fill out customs forms correctly. So what would end up happening was that every single time international orders went out, they'd get held at customs or returned to sender and it was a mess."
— Automating Manual Tasks for 3PLs
Our Take
We see this frequently: core systems like a WMS, while powerful, often have specific blind spots. Automating a 7-minute manual workaround for international labels, especially for a 3PL processing 15,000 orders a month, translates to hundreds of thousands of dollars in annual labor savings and prevents significant P&L impact from returned goods.
Key Takeaways
- 01WMS limitations, such as inability to process customs forms, create critical operational gaps.
- 02These gaps force 3PL employees into manual, multi-system workarounds, costing 7 minutes per international order.
- 03Targeted AI automation, like purchasing labels externally and uploading them, eliminates these manual steps.
- 04This specific automation prevents costly customs holds and returned shipments, improving throughput and reducing rework.
- 05We integrate solutions that plug WMS functional gaps, turning minutes of manual effort into seconds of automated workflow.
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