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Integration of Latitude WMS with Epicor P21 Cloud for Enhanced Warehouse Management Unveiled

The new P21 API interface brings Latitude’s unmatched warehouse management capabilities to wholesale distributors leveraging Epicor’s cloud-based ERP solution. PathGuide has finalized the integration of its Latitude Warehouse Management System (WMS) with Epicor Prophet 21 Cloud. This new API interface…

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Honoring David Allais: The Visionary Behind PathGuide

Today is a special day, as it marks PathGuide Technologies founder David Allais’s 92nd birthday! David remains a familiar face around the PathGuide headquarters in Bothell, Wash. where he continues to serve as chairman of our company.

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9 Qualities in a Warehouse Management System

A concrete way to finding the right WMS means looking for these qualities. Choosing the wrong WMS can damage your customer service and reputation while dragging down productivity and driving up costs.

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PathGuide Recognizes National Customer Service Week

At PathGuide, we celebrate and recognize the fundamental role of our Customer Support folks and the significant impact they have on our company through their dedication to customer satisfaction.

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Advice Piece on Powering Past Procrastination Picked Up

Reviving forgotten goals can have a meaningful impact on any organization. The first step in getting back on track is recognizing that neglecting long-term priorities can have significant negative impacts on the entire organization.

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KPIs Article Gets Published in Forbes Business Council

To prepare for the race ahead, a lot of businesses will set ambitious goals at the start of the year which includes reviewing past performance and strategically plotting the course to outpace the competition.

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Latest Piece About Simplifying the Complicated is Out

Done right, simplification in business settings can result in an improved reporting structure, help adjust areas of focus and prioritization of tasks, and perhaps even achieve greater efficiency and effectiveness.

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David Allais Hits Birthday Milestone!

To celebrate this milestone birthday, we wanted to highlight David’s incredible contributions to the field and to over three decades of PathGuide’s success.

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Happy Holidays!

The folks at PathGuide are grateful to you for being a part of our family. Sending warm holiday greetings and best wishes for new beginnings!

Podcast Series

PathGuide and Zerion Group are serving up some great content in our new, three-part podcast series on ways you can Optimize Your Warehouse for the Demands of eCommerce.

Latitude WMS Release 2021.R1

Before and after photos showcase Latitude WMS Version 10.0.120 to help customers understand new features and enhancements so they’ll upgrade.

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Trade Show Schedule

PathGuide understands that there is no communication method more direct or interactive than friendly, face-to-face conversations.

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3 Questions to Ask When Looking for a WMS

Do you find yourself drowning in paperwork? Are your legacy business processes keeping up with rising customer expectations? Do you suspect that your warehouse workers are inefficient and spend countless hours trying to track down missing inventory? If you answered yes to any of these questions, it’s time to invest in a WMS.

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The Next Generation of Warehouse Workers

Companies must find ways to connect with new employees and remain mindful of training, retraining and engaging workers if they want to develop a highly functional and satisfied warehouse workforce.

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What’s Next for the Warehouse Worker?

Warehouse innovations are in direct conflict with the generic, preconceived and outdated views of warehouse work as difficult, laborious and a low-paying.

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8 Reasons Your Warehouse is Struggling

For many organizations, what goes on in the warehouse is a great mystery. Maybe you don’t know why your warehouse is struggling to keep up — you just know that it is struggling.

PathGuide’s CEO on Momentum into 2020

SuperbCrew recently had the opportunity to sit down with Eric Allais, president and CEO at PathGuide, to reflect on 2019 and look ahead to what’s in store for 2020.

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Top Strategies to Boost Warehouse Productivity

In the 30 years we’ve been training and consulting wholesale and retail distributors on ways to improve their warehouse logistics, we’ve identified these top five strategies as the most effective across the board.

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Expedited Deliveries: Prepare Your Warehouse

Meeting existing delivery expectations is already proving to be challenging for many organizations; moving to even shorter delivery times may require significant investments in facilities, people and technology.

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Navigating the Wild West of eCommerce

The meteoric rise of B2C eCommerce in retail continues to send shock waves through the industry, and the impact reverberates beyond Amazon and eBay to B2B companies everywhere.

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The ABCs of ROI

Three Simple Steps to Calculate ROI for Your WMS When talking to a distributor for the first time, I often hear about trade-offs and workarounds that are devised to deal with a myriad of warehouse challenges or limitations. Many are…

Using a WMS to Measure, Motivate and Reward Performance

Data-driven insights from Latitude WMS helped transform warehouse productivity to position ESP as an industry-leading provider of precision temperature and pressure gauges when it comes to customer service and employee satisfaction.

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Shipshape Distribution: Perspectives on Shipping with a WMS

Organizations work tirelessly to enhance shipping speeds to customers because they’re accustomed to receiving their orders at a pace proportionate to how quickly they were requested. Here are some perspectives on using a WMS that offers an integrated manifest and shipping system software solution.

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Using a WMS to Combat Worker Fatigue

A tired warehouse worker is prone to taking shortcuts on the job. He may think to himself, “Why move the ladder to grab that box when I can simply climb the racking or push the box through to the other side with a long stick or pole?”

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Boost Your Warehouse Productivity

In the 30 years we’ve been training and consulting wholesale and retail distributors on ways to improve their warehouse logistics, we’ve identified these top five strategies as the most effective across the board.

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Use Your WMS to Measure and Reward

Experts say that if the culture is outstanding, employee performance will reflect it. The culture establishes a framework for equal treatment for all – and nothing helps reinforce fairness better than pure analytics derived from concrete data.

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Turning the Page on Paper and Going Paperless

Human error is one of the biggest factors putting customer loyalty and business profitability in jeopardy today. As such, the risk to the one-third of warehouses still relying on paper-based systems is even greater.

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A New Day Brings a New Way of Warehousing

If you are still envisioning a warehouse as a cavernous building with little air flow and boxes randomly stacked wherever there is space, you might need to revise your thinking.

Coming Up Fresh

PathGuide worked with Plymouth to create and customize a program called “Fresh to Frozen.” Products that do not sell by Friday need to be frozen and processed as a frozen item before Saturday. This allows Plymouth workers to take a fresh item, scan one of its cases and the program will automatically convert the fresh item number to the frozen equivalent.

Down to the Wire with SEA Wire and Cable

For SEA Wire and Cable, a supplier of custom wire and cable products for military and aerospace sectors, PathGuide’s Latitude WMS helped warehouse workers cut hours off the time required to verify product details for customers with special requirements.

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The WMS Domino Effect

You expect a warehouse management solution to deliver process improvements to your facility.  But what might be less apparent is the WMS Domino Effect, or the efficiencies and cost savings an organization experiences in areas other than the warehouse or…

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5 Problems Caused by a Messy Warehouse

An unorganized or messy warehouse indicates more than a penchant for clutter. It can imply a lack of consideration for inventory and even employee safety.

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Build or Buy Your Next WMS?

A timeless argument that can be applied to many aspects of a business operation is whether to build or buy your next WMS. Finding the answer means weighing the pros and cons for both arguments.

The Unlucky 13 Warehouse Inefficiencies

As warehousing management experts, we see companies that suffer from easily-fixed problems. Here’s a list of the “unlucky 13” warehouse inefficiencies.

WMS Deployment Plan Includes 35 Locations

Mingledorff’s embarked on an aggressive WMS deployment plan that included each of its 35 locations, resulting in total traceability after saying goodbye to pen and paper.

7 Warehouse Management System Must-Haves

You need to choose the right warehouse management solution for your business, because the wrong WMS can do more harm than good for your business.

Aggressive Rollout With Little Disruption

Mingledorff’s decided to do an aggressive phased rollout that would have Latitude WMS up and running in 35 locations in less than 9 months. The WMS interface being used by Mingledorff’s was developed with PathGuide to have a very small footprint on the SX.e software.

Cycle Counting Article Picked Up

The goal of cycle counting is to methodically work through the entire warehouse inventory on a continuous and far more manageable basis.

Buying a Cloud-based WMS?

The words "low cost" may be quite appealing if you’re seriously considering a cloud-based WMS, but it’s always important to read the fine print when considering the right solution.

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Step Up to e-Fulfillment with a WMS

When it comes to e-Fulfillment, choosing a flexible and scalable WMS solution is the first step on the path to successfully growing your operations and your brand.

Warehouse Automation: Asset or Obstacle?

Automation in the Warehouse: Asset or Obstacle? David Allais, founder and chairman of PathGuide Technologies, takes an objective approach to this growing industry trend.

WMS Product Solutions: Latitude Among Top 5

Choosing the right WMS can not only make processes more efficient and help manage a workforce, it can also position an organization for growth and greatly improve customer service.

When It’s Time to Replace Your Legacy System

PaulB Wholesale retired and replaced their legacy system with Latitude WMS at the recommendation of Epicor due to the much-needed granularity for its particular fulfillment center model.

PaulB Wholesale: Overcoming Legacy Systems

Latitude WMS provides flexibility, granularity and much, much more for PaulB Wholesale, a Pennsylvania-based hardware wholesaler that provides a wide range of industrial and mechanical parts through its DC and operations.

Latitude WMS Delivers Huge Improvements

For a company that relied strictly on paper to pick orders, Becker Electric’s management team knew they had to do more to increase productivity and accuracy if they wanted to stay ahead of the competition.

Game Changer Award Goes to Cascade Orthopedic

Cascade Orthopedic was chosen as PARCEL Forum’s Game Changer of the Year for its successful deployment of PathGuide’s Latitude Manifest and Shipping System, together with QubeVu’s dimensioning solution.

Have You Outgrown Your WMS?

If your WMS allows you to keep pace with today’s demands and positions you to scale with your business, you’re probably in pretty good shape. Industrial Distribution just published an article written by Eric Allais, president and CEO of PathGuide, that speaks to the "6 Signs You’ve Outgrown Your WMS".

Using the Right WMS for Cut Item Management

The process of cut item management can be a frustrating pain point for many organizations, but with the right tools, your operations can see dramatic improvements.

WMS and TMS: PathGuide Weighs In

Latitude’s Inbound Transportation Module is just one example of how WMS and TMS providers are offering more options to help customers measure and track dock scheduling. This kind of insight could have real negotiating power when evaluating carriers.

Rawson Proves Lightning Can Strike Twice!

Rawson implemented PathGuide’s Latitude WMS, then phased it out three years later as it replaced its antiquated ERP. Once they realized they’d lost a lot of WMS functionality in the switch, the PathGuide team was back on the scene.

Good Warehousekeeping Article in Industrial Supply

There are many ways that a warehouse or distribution center benefits from keeping its facilities organized and clean. Bad warehousekeeping practices reduce productivity and cost the distribution industry billions of dollars annually.

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New Inbound Transportation Module

The new Inbound Transportation Module provides dashboards and other tools that make it easy to automate inbound delivery scheduling and record-keeping for external carriers, while helping to better assign staff and equipment when and where they are needed.

2 Key Factors Drive WMS Adoption Today

A well planned WMS implementation leads to better organization, a more integrated and efficient workforce, and streamlining of warehouse space and processes.

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Competing With Giants

This feature article from the latest issue of Inbound Logistics profiles several small and medium-sized businesses that are using information technology to stay competitive with industry giants. It’s a good read and highlights an important fact about the modern warehouse…

Buffet of Benefits With Latitude WMS

A very strong article about how PathGuide’s Latitude WMS filled the specific needs of Spokane, Washington-based Jensen Distribution Services.

Jumping Onboard the WMS Train

If you think that today’s warehouses are gleamingly modern facilities utilizing the latest technologies, think again. While many warehouses and distribution centers certainly fit that description and have already realized the efficiencies and cost savings that technology can bring to…

Business Solutions Magazine Cites Blog Post

A contributing writer to Business Solutions Magazine cites PathGuide’s blog post in EBN Magazine in an article on how to emphasize the benefits of a WMS.

Calculating the ROI of Your WMS

The search for a believable ROI is the logical starting place for distributors considering a capital purchase, such as a warehouse management system.

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5 Measurable Benefits that a WMS Delivers

The search for a believable Return on Investment (ROI) is the logical starting place for distributors considering a capital purchase, such as a warehouse management system (WMS).

C-A-L Ranch Beefs Up Speed and Accuracy

C-A-L Ranch was able to minimize the vetting process when evaluating multiple WMS systems thanks to its Mid-States Distributing Company membership.

How Does McLendon Hardware Compete with Big Box Retailers?

In an effort to expand its business and better compete by automating its distribution center operations, McLendon Hardware deployed the Latitude WMS. The company had determined that while it had outgrown its distribution center, it could not afford a new facility. Thus, it turned to PathGuide to improve the efficiencies within its existing facilities.