Hi everyone,
I’m building a small browser-based tool for warehouse layout planning and I’d love feedback from people who actually work in warehousing, logistics or operations.

The idea is simple: many small/medium warehouses still manage layout, racks, bin locations and picking areas with Excel, printed maps, handwritten labels or “people just know where things are”.

The tool lets you:

* draw a 2D warehouse layout with racks, aisles, docks and operational zones; * automatically generate bin/location codes; * assign SKUs to locations; * classify products by A/B/C rotation; * view the layout in 3D; * print QR labels for locations; * export locations/reports; * test a simple optimized picking path.

It is **not meant to replace a full WMS**.
It’s more of a planning / mapping / slotting tool for small warehouses that want to get organized before going into a more complex system.

I’m looking for 5-10 people willing to test a demo and give honest feedback.

What I’d like to understand:

1. Is this actually useful in a real warehouse?
2. What is missing or unrealistic?
3. Would you use something like this before implementing a WMS?
4. How do you currently manage bin locations and warehouse maps?
5. What would make this a “must-have” instead of a nice-to-have?

No sales pitch. I’m just trying to validate the problem and improve the product with real feedback.

If you manage a warehouse, work in logistics, or have dealt with messy layouts/bin locations, I’d really appreciate your thoughts.

Hi everyone,
I’m building a small browser-based tool for warehouse layout planning and I’d love feedback from people who actually work in warehousing, logistics or operations.

The idea is simple: many small/medium warehouses still manage layout, racks, bin locations and picking areas with Excel, printed maps, handwritten labels or “people just know where things are”.

The tool lets you:

• draw a 2D warehouse layout with racks, aisles, docks and operational zones;
• automatically generate bin/location codes;
• assign SKUs to locations;
• classify products by A/B/C rotation;
• view the layout in 3D;
• print QR labels for locations;
• export locations/reports;
• test a simple optimized picking path.

It is not meant to replace a full WMS.
It’s more of a planning / mapping / slotting tool for small warehouses that want to get organized before going into a more complex system.

I’m looking for 5-10 people willing to test a demo and give honest feedback.

What I’d like to understand:

1. Is this actually useful in a real warehouse?
2. What is missing or unrealistic?
3. Would you use something like this before implementing a WMS?
4. How do you currently manage bin locations and warehouse maps?
5. What would make this a “must-have” instead of a nice-to-have?

No sales pitch. I’m just trying to validate the problem and improve the product with real feedback.

If you manage a warehouse, work in logistics, or have dealt with messy layouts/bin locations, I’d really appreciate your thoughts.

Hi Guys,
ive be been working with sql and databases ever since i fell into the category of accidental dba, so roughly 3 years. I have never worked on design of databases. i leterally got dumped with the instances and databases and they said keep it up :)

My situation is as follows and im looking for any advice or pointers for real world scenarios that you guys have dealt with.

The company get data fails (xlsx, csv, txt...) dropped from various vendors onto ftp. The data team then grab these files and through SSIS transform it from DIM tables to the final production database tables.

My question is how is the best way to approach this. Is it database per vendor that gives us data and then transform to a production database.
or 1 database for staging with different schemas per vendor, then move that to a production site?

I just dont know, id love to hear the suggestions or options. All our SQL instances are currently on premise

I'm in northern NJ and a new business owner. I just leased a 5000 SF small bay warehouse and need to install pallet racking. I'm going the used route to save money. The same vendors that are selling the racking are quoting between $5K-10K to handle the permitting process. Is it worth it? Can I save money by getting the permits myself? Is the permit application so involved/confusing that I can't fill out the forms myself? I think the most prohibitive part is getting signed and sealed drawings, since I'm not a licensed engineer. Are there any racking engineers who will work with a business owner directly (vs going through a racking vendor) to provide these drawings? If so, how do I find them, and what do they charge? Thanks all for the input.

Got me thinking...
How many operational issues happen right under existing cameras but nobody sees until later?
Spills
fallen pallets
stock in the wrong area
loading dock issues
etc.

Curious if anyone is doing anything beyond security footage with their cameras.

I'm curious to hear from warehouse managers and 3PL operators.

What takes up the most time in your daily operations?

• Inventory accuracy?
• Manual data entry?
• Client billing?
• Picking & packing?
• Returns?
• Multi-warehouse management?
• WMS integrations?

I'm researching how warehouses are improving efficiency, and I'd love to hear what's working (or not working) for you.

Hi everyone,
this situation is honestly stressing me out.
We have traffic, add-to-carts, and daily UGC content, but very few purchases, which makes me think the issue is conversion rather than awareness.
I launched a women’s fashion brand about 3 months ago and invested heavily in inventory (around $400k). We have a professional website, run paid ads, and post UGC content every day, but we’re still struggling to generate consistent sales.
I’ve lowered prices, improved the website, and keep creating content, but I feel like I’m missing something fundamental.
If you were in my position, what would you do?
Focus more on influencers?
Push harder on paid ads?
Change the offer completely?
Just keep going and give it more time?
I’d really appreciate advice from founders who have been through this before. What was the turning point for your brand?

Hi all!

I’m a stock ops manager for a large UK-based retailer, and over the last couple years I’ve noticed a lot of the biggest operational headaches we have don’t actually come from moving and processing stock, but from the bad communication and lack of accountability between stores, depots and head office.

For example:

\- We place orders that never arrive
\- Our deliveries will be cancelled or changed and it isn’t communicated
\- Our productivity systems are ridiculously inaccurate
\- sometimes you can’t even get hold of the warehouse

Sometimes you just spend more time trying to sort it out than actually doing your job. Do any of you deal with that sort of stuff? And what do you/would you do to fix it?

Thanks!

I've reached about 20 containers scattered across various construction sites and houses, and I've literally lost track of them.

Last night, I stayed up until 1 AM entering data into an old Excel spreadsheet while trying to decipher what my driver wrote on a coffee-stained weigh slip from the landfill.

I do half of the dispatching on a whiteboard with markers, and yesterday I accidentally wiped off an important pickup address with my sleeve.

I'm losing money daily on tonnage fees that I forget to invoice customers for because the paperwork circulates physically and gets lost somewhere in the truck's cabin.

Edit: I keep thinking about requesting a demo from CurbWaste because I understand it's built specifically for this kind of dumpster logistics, and maybe it will help me completely eliminate paper from the company.

Has anyone else made the transition from torn notebooks to software directly on a tablet without completely confusing the older drivers?

Looking to partner with growing brands that need warehousing and fulfillment. Eaves Operations provides storage, order fulfillment, kitting, returns, inventory management, and freight coordination. If you’re evaluating a 3PL, let’s talk.

Hi guys my inventory is lost in fba warehouse by them
Initially that was available but now its lost its about 160$ but amazon want to pay me 80$ how claim?

we are expanding our assembly area and finally replacing the mismatched tables and makeshift surfaces that have been in place since we started. half the current setup is not at the right height for standing work and we have had ongoing complaints about ergonomics from the floor team.

looking at proper industrial workbenches and trying to figure out what configuration makes the most sense before we commit to anything. adjustable height versus fixed, steel versus laminate tops, integrated storage versus standalone units.

curious what others in manufacturing or warehouse environments have landed on and whether there are decisions you would approach differently if you were setting up the workspace from scratch.

Lighting isn't an issue in our warehouse but we have labels in small text and I would like the cameras to record the text and images around it for analytical purposes. I am wondering what is the best cameras that can see as good as iPhone cameras? Because I am about to build my own stack using Nikon lens and raspberri pi

I am a GC and we recently was awarded the cleaning out of a bankrupted warehouse and we acquired all assets clean. Everything from furniture (new and used), forklifts, order pickers, warehouse carts for order pickers, plastic crates, and qr scanners. We have hundreds of items and over 15 forklifts. We are under time restraint and cannot auction and are looking for best methods to sell everything?

Anyone have any recommendations or ideas? We can move smaller items like plastic and furniture blankets to our warehouse for selling or using later but it’s thousands of sq ft of occupied space of equipment left behind.

we are running about 4000 square feet and finally moving away from floor stacking to a proper racking setup. the problem is every layout we sketch out either maximizes storage density but kills the pick path or leaves too much aisle space and wastes vertical capacity we actually need.

curious what configurations others have landed on for a smaller footprint warehouse and whether there were things you wish you had accounted for before the first rack went in.

Yo,

A quick question for the warehouse managers and 3PL people here. I'm looking into how different facilities handle pallet count disputes, because poking around this subreddit,it seems like an absolute nightmare on the ground.

Here is the scenario I keep seeing: A linehaul truck rolls into the bay, the paperwork (waybill) says there are 20 pallets on board, but your floor staff scans everything and only counts 18.

Because turnarounds need to be fast and you can't hold up the dock, the truck usually leaves anyway. Then, weeks later, the finger-pointing starts over email about missing stock, short-payments, and claims, and everyone loses a pretty penny because nobody can prove what actually happened at the gate.

If you’re running an active floor or managing cross-docking:

1. How do you actually prove who messed up when a carrier disputes your physical count?

2. Does your WMS flag these count mismatches automatically while the truck is still there, or are you guys stuck manually digging through stamped paper PODs weeks later?

3. What happens if the carrier claims the shrink-wrap was intact at the start, but the internal box count is short when it hits your gate? Who swallows that loss?

4.How much time does your team waste manually reconciling scanner logs per week or month?

Would love to hear how your specific facilities handle this frustration without slowing down operations.