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Today e-Commerce businesses face unforeseeable challenges. How much will they grow in the following months or years? How many more inventory goods and SKU’s will they need to e-commerce? How can they accurately monitor their stock? How flawless will their order fulfillment be? How can they reduce costs from packing and parceling? How can returns not cause them headaches?

And most important when they grow will their WMS be flexible and adaptable to meet their ever-changing needs? Will their WMS meet their e-Commerce?

e-Commerce today and tomorrow needs an enterprise scale WMS with true adaptability and flexibility ready to help: Logistics Vision Suite by Mantis.

The know-how accumulated by Mantis in key successful implementations with very demanding requirements has allowed Mantis to gradually evolve its advanced specialized solutions for e-fulfilment centers including:

• Warehouse management for central and regional distribution centres with built-in best practices for e-fulfilment centres resulting to optimal order fulfilment with real time inventory monitoring.
• Warehouse automation solutions adapted to the needs of e-fulfilment centres such as Pick to Light, Pick to Cart and especially Sort to Light that is singular for such operations. Additional automation solutions could also be utilized for small-size articles such as Miniloads, Carousels / Shuttles, etc.).
• Parcel and LTL management enables order fulfilment and shipping to blend together as one process to leverage cost reduction, improved control and better customer services.
• In-store e-fulfilment solution combines the typical WMS in-store functions with the e-commerce requirements that integrate each store in the company’s e-commerce channel.

Retail today is much more than selling in store and paying over the counter. Delivering to the consumer and achieving high levels of customer service, has become more complex due to multi-channel architecture, e-Commerce growth and value-added services offered to consumers.

A strong technology platform is therefore absolutely needed in order for your company to keep pace with consumers high demands and retain -or even increase- market share.

Any kind of picking method, so many automations options and packaging measured to your needs

• Multi Channel
  e-commerece ready WMS
• Multi Tenancy
  Maximize utilization of human resources and optimize space utilization
• Trade Promotions, Displays Management, Rre-packing & Labelling
  Effective support of sales & marketing initiatives
• Pre-cubing, Pick & Pack
  Packaging optimized according to your needs
• Traceability Upstream & Downstream Management / Recalls Accuracy
  Ensuring Compliance
• Parcel and LTL Management
  Fulfilling consumers’ ordering per item with ease. Be ready for urban logistics and e-commerce
• Proof of Delivery
  Certifying deliveries, reduce friction, eliminate unnecessary paperwork
• Cash on Delivery
  Enable more sales while supporting cash flow
• e-Commerce Order Processing
  Increase e-Commerce sales
• Seasonality Handling
  Ensuring products availability during all the retail season waves
• ABC Analysis
  Faster orders preparation with your fast moving products closer

In the middle of the supply chain, wholesalers and distributors align producers products flow with true demand by final consumers. Ineffective forecast from your clients causes excess inventory in your premises, unnecessary returns and increased handling costs.

Maintaining profitability for your company along with fulfilling OTIF metrics, is an everyday struggle that must be supported by a strong WMS system.

Manage your complex inventory with success

• Trade Promotions and Displays Management
  Support your sales and marketing initiatives with effectiveness and flexibility
• Traceability Upstream & Downstream Management / Recalls Accuracy
  Ensure your compliance, know your stock
• Re-packing & Labelling
  Labeling as you want it, packing as your customers need
• Centralized DC Management
  Gain your supply chain control use shared parameterization for all your DCs per domain
• Warehouse Intelligence
  Do the unimaginable with your data, gain remarcable speed and clarity of insight
• Multi Tenancy
  Maximize utilization of human resources and optimize space utilization

You know how to run your 3PL business, but you also know that you need to decrease your costs and increase your productivity as well as meet the often-tough traceability standards required by your clients.

You want billing accuracy and provide value-added services, you need to have perfect order fulfillment and bring new clients up and running at a snap.

You and your clients need to have inventory visibility and avoid over or understocking. You need to be adaptable and flexible to grow your business with the WMS that will cover your and client’s needs.

Logistics Vision Suite by Mantis will adapt to your needs and requirements however sophisticated they might be. With more than 700 customers worldwide with 200 of them being leading 3PLs in their countries / regions, LVS is the only WMS / logistics software suite in the world that can be easily adapted for 3PLs with sophisticated warehousing + distribution operations and automations. Its design represents a great leap in WMS / logistics technology, offering outstanding adaptability & upgradeability. It enables professionals of Mantis and its partner network, to easily configure and deploy it to multiple sites and clients thus sharply decreasing the initial project time and costs. Furthermore, its state-of-the-art architecture and upgradeabilityallows painless upgrades and cost-effective on-going support. Finally, it allows 3PLs with internal IT resources to “self-serve” themselves covering even for the most complex of their warehousing + distribution processes, enabling them to respond fast to their continuously evolving needs while at the same time enjoying an unbeatable low multi-year TCO.

LVS goes well beyond the management of the warehouse, offering extended capabilities that are a “must” for modern 3PLs such as value added services, kitting, light manufacturing, dock & gate management, logistics customer / partner service portals, parcel management, centralized control of local and remote warehouses, advanced slotting, labor management, versatile billing, comprehensive traceability management and powerful warehouse analytics.

3PLs cannot compete in the COVID-19 era without deploying warehouse automations. With the growth in piece (“eaches”) picking and in inner / master carton picking in many distribution centers (as a result of e-commerce) and other factors driving the evolution of order profiles, 3PLs look for warehouse automation solutions to speed-up picking while at the same time reducing costs, minimizing errors as well as meeting the traceability standards required by their clients. However, the era of the warehouse automation dinosaurs, that is the rigid solutions that cover most of the distribution center, cost a fortune and take “forever” to install / implement, has passed without return. 3PLs are looking for warehouse automations of reasonable pricing that can be implemented quickly and are flexible enough to meet the needs of their frequently changing client universe.

Mantis provides its 3PL clients with exactly such flexible and affordable warehouse automations and does so for more than 13 years now. These automations consist of a smart combination of proven competitively priced technologies (Voice Picking, Pick-to-Light, Sort-to-Light / Put Walls, Smart Pick Carts, Smart Glasses, RFID, Mobile Robots, etc.) which have been tightly integrated with LVS using advanced proprietary technology (LVS WCS LS / VP + CD/VVR, etc). Such integration significantly enhances automations’ overall performance, while at the same time minimizes costs due to the elimination of any relevant 3rd party control software. Furthermore, Mantis provides its 3PL clients with its own advanced (embedded in LVS) WCS to integrate with Automated Material Handling Systems (AMHS) such as Shuttles, Carousels, Mini-Loads, Mobile Selves & AGV-like robotics, Sorters, Packing line systems, etc.

3PL with the experience of a leader / Adaptability at its best for 3PL

• Multi Channel
  E-commerce ready WMS
• Multi Tenancy
  Maximize utilization of human resources and optimize space utilization
• Fast Onboard of New Clients
  Increase ROI for the 3PL
• Billing Adaptability
  Eliminate hidden costs, highlight indefinable charges
• Cross Docking
  Reduce costs, reduces the space needed in your facility
• Returns Adaptability
  Best reverse logistics performance
• Warehouse Intelligence
  Increase effectiveness, take educated decisions
• Parcel and LTL Management
  Be ready for urban logistics and e-commerce