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Keep your inventory accurate using WMS+ Cycle Counts

Inventory Counting.

Does your team waste valuable time looking for inventory that isn’t there? Does production stall when a key ingredient isn’t available due to inventory inaccuracies?

Do you risk losing out on potential sales? Or, worst still, is your reputation at risk when key products are promised but not available? Maybe you are overstocked with cash tied up in excess inventory taking up valuable storage space whilst incurring handling fees, and ultimately resulting in stock spoilage?

WMS+ paired with SAP Business One now helps you to keep track of your inventory levels by assisting your teams with your cycle counts ensuring that your warehouse runs as efficiently as possible.

SAP Business One allows you to plan your counts accordingly, whilst WMS+ enables the speed, ease, and accuracy of data collection through GS1 barcode scanning.

See how you can keep your inventory levels in check using cycle counting in WMS+ by reading our Inventory Counting User Guide

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Inventory Adjustments v2405 WMS+

WMS+ v3.2405: Under the Hood – Customizable Reason Codes

📊 WMS+ Reason Codes for Inventory Adjustments: The Reason Behind the Why

At Softengine, we believe that sound reasoning should underwrite every business decision – and that’s why, in this release, we’re introducing Reason Codes in WMS+. Our newly developed feature isn’t solely focused on what changes in your inventory are happening but also on why. We’re delivering the tools to bring logic and clarity to your adjustments, helping you make decisions confidently and accurately.

What it Does:

Reason Codes allow you to document the specific reason behind every inventory adjustment. You can use them for returns, damages, promotional allocations, or any other reason required. Reason Codes are directly linked to your financial records, ensuring integrity between inventory changes and accounting.

How it Works:

Users select the relevant Reason Code from the dropdown menu when making an inventory adjustment in WMS+. The selected code updates inventory and financial records simultaneously in real time for seamless tracking and management.

If a Reason Code is required for an item or warehouse, the adjustment process cannot be completed until a code is selected. Additionally, these codes cannot be manually inputted or overridden, ensuring consistency and accuracy across all adjustments.

📝 Why Use Reason Codes for Inventory Adjustments?


Behind every adjustment is a reason. Understanding why
inventory moves how it does allow you to unlock insights to peer beyond the
numbers. However, you customize your codes, whether for returns, damage, or
production tweaks: the Reason Codes let you put the pieces together, so you’re
not just adjusting inventory – you’re adjusting your strategy with purpose.

What it Does:

It provides a way to log and track the reasons behind all inventory adjustments, so every change is tied to a business justification. It improves accountability and creates a clear audit trail for compliance purposes.

How it Works:

Using Reason Codes reduces errors and ensures that adjustments are logged correctly, keeping financial reporting aligned with physical inventory movements. This makes investigating discrepancies easier.

How it Benefits You

📈 Why It Drives Financial and Operational Growth

Our team developed the Reason Codes feature so users can create their own codes and tie them to specific inventory movements and GL accounts to provide more flexibility and better accuracy when adjusting inventory.

What it Does:

Reason Codes create a seamless link between your inventory adjustments and financial records, ensuring that every adjustment is connected to its underlying reason. This keeps your financial data accurate and up to date.

How it Works:

Identifying patterns in inventory adjustments helps Warehouse Managers optimize processes and reduce waste, leading to cost-saving measures and operational improvements that boost your bottom line.

🔧 Flexibility Meets Logic: Customizable Reason Codes

Why settle for a one-size-fits-all solution when your business is unique? Our customizable Reason Codes, created in the Admin Panel, let you apply your logic to your inventory processes. Tailor them to match specific operations like receiving goods, stock transfers, returns, damage handling, and promotional stock allocations, ensuring every adjustment is accurately tracked and linked to your financial systems. It’s flexible and logical, empowering you to grow on your terms.

What it Does:

It’s easy. When logged into the Admin Panel, users can create new Reason Codes and assign them to inventory adjustments in WMS+ as required by your operations. Define codes for internal and external adjustments to improve inventory management.

How it Works:

Once assigned to an inventory adjustment, WMS+ ensures that the codes are reflected in both inventory and financial records, allowing for precise adjustments and greater operational flexibility.

How to Use It:

Specify the amount to be adjusted (either added or removed) to ensure your inventory stays accurate.

Navigate to the Inventory Adjustment Screen:

Go to Inventory ➡ Adjustments in WMS+.

Select or Scan the Item:

Scan the item to be adjusted or select it from the list.

Enter the Adjustment Quantity: Specify the amount to be adjusted (either added or removed)

Confirm:
After entering the information, WMS+ will automatically track the adjustment and update your inventory and financial records.

Choose a Reason Code:

In the Reason Code dropdown, select the appropriate reason (e.g., Damaged Goods, Promotional Use). WMS+ will link the selected reason code to a GL account in SAP B1, ensuring accurate financial tracking and clear audit trails.

Why It Matters: Reason Codes provide essential insights into why adjustments are made, streamlining your processes and reducing errors in financial reporting.

Customizable Reason Codes

Our team developed the Reason Codes feature so users can create their own codes and tie them to specific inventory movements and GL accounts to provide more flexibility and better accuracy when adjusting inventory.

Flexibility: Customize Reason Codes to suit your operational needs, ensuring every adjustment is properly categorized and traceable.

⚙️ Configuring Reason Codes in the Softengine Admin Panel

With the Admin Panel, you can configure custom Reason Codes that align inventory adjustments with your financial records. Each code is linked to the appropriate GL account, ensuring seamless integration between inventory movements and accounting.

Why it Matters:
Reason Codes provide clarity and control, reducing errors, improving compliance, and creating an audit trail that enhances both operational and financial transparency.

How it Works:
In the Admin Panel, you can set up and manage Reason Codes. Once configured, these codes are applied automatically in WMS+ during inventory adjustments.

If a Reason Code is assigned to an item or warehouse, the adjustment process cannot be completed until a Reason Code has been selected. These codes cannot be manually inputted or overridden, ensuring consistency and accuracy in all adjustments.

To Our Valued Partners

At Softengine, we strive daily to develop solutions to simplify your operations and provide meaningful enhancements to meet the evolving challenges of your business. Reason Codes in WMS+ v3.2405 were created with one objective in mind: to give you more control and transparency over your inventory processes, ensuring every adjustment is as clear and traceable as possible.

We’ve introduced this feature because we understand how critical accuracy, compliance, and accountability are for businesses like yours. If you’re managing returns, handling damaged goods, or adjusting stock levels for promotions, the ability to document the specific reasons behind every inventory movement is crucial. By linking Reason Codes directly to your financial systems, we’ve provided the ability to ensure your financial records are accurately aligned with inventory adjustments. The added layer of transparency and control helps reduce errors and improve compliance.

Why did we focus on this? Because our partners have consistently voiced a need for more detailed and auditable inventory management. Adding this layer of control enables you to meet regulatory requirements more easily, minimize errors, and ensure that every inventory movement is justified. Ultimately, it helps you provide better service to your customers, while making processes smoother and more reliable.

Your ongoing feedback and insights have been pivotal in shaping this feature, so it directly addresses the complexities you face in daily operations. Reason Codes are a technical improvement and a response to your requirement for deeper visibility and more granular control over your business operations.

As we continue to evolve WMS+, we are committed to delivering updates to drive your business forward. Your trust and collaboration have been key to these improvements, and we’re proud to partner with you to deliver innovative solutions that help you grow, build loyalty, and exceed customer expectations.

Together, we’ll continue solving challenges and elevating your operations, all while Making Business Simple.


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v2405 WMS+ WMS+ Release Notes

WMS+ v2405: Command Operations, Nurture Loyalty

The Story So Far

In version 2404, we set the stage for WMS+ to grow and adapt to address the real challenges that directly affect customer satisfaction.

We focused on achieving superior performance by integrating with SAP’s Service Layer interface and precision labeling for improved traceability. We believed in giving you the tools to operate with clarity, knowing that every label, every piece of data, and every workflow is accurate and essential to “Making Business Simple”.

WMS+ Version 2405: Refined for Profitability

Now, with version 2405, we’ve advanced further to deliver even greater value. WMS+ continues to break down barriers, giving you even more clarity and control. Simplicity isn’t just a concept; it’s how we empower you to see deeper insights, reduce unnecessary complexity, and shift your energy toward what truly drives success: customer satisfaction and profitability. Version 2405 refines your operations, improving everything from login access to understanding the reasons behind every inventory adjustment.

How This Update Benefits You:

  • Boost Profitability: Accurate pallet weight data and efficient workflows reduce costly shipping errors and operational expenses.
  • Simplify Access: Unified login with Active Directory consolidates credentials, reducing the need to manage multiple accounts and improving efficiency across systems.
  • Increase Transparency: Customizable Reason Codes bring logic to inventory adjustments and ensure they are tied to a specific reason and General Ledger account, creating clearer audit trails for financial integrity.

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Release Notes Contents:

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Empower Decision-Making with Customizable Reason Codes:

Gain deeper insight into your inventory processes by linking every adjustment to a specific reason and directly to your General Ledger for financial accuracy and control.

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Streamline Shipping and Reduce Costs with Pallet Weight Tracking:

Input accurate pallet weights and avoid discrepancies in shipping costs, improving overall efficiency and building stronger relationships with your customers.

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Boost Accuracy and Compliance with Secondary Batch Tracking:

Track crucial batch data such as manufacturer batch numbers, ensuring compliance and accurate inventory management across regulated industries.

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Simplify Access with IAM Login Integration:

Boost security and efficiency by enabling your team to log in seamlessly across systems using just one set of credentials, eliminating barriers to productivity.

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Eliminate Errors with the Inventory Discrepancies Report

Identify and correct discrepancies with ease to keep your operations running smoothly.

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Improve Label Accuracy with Real-Time Previews:

Easily configure and troubleshoot labels with instant updates, enhanced visibility, and consistent print quality.

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Thank you to Our Partners:

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Purposeful Control Over Your Inventory and Financials

In warehousing, every inventory adjustment has a reason and a story to tell. WMS+ Reason Codes now give you the chance to write that story. Reason Codes empower you to understand the purpose behind each adjustment so you can make informed decisions that truly matter. Tracking the movements of items throughout their lifecycle is vital but understanding how decisions affect your operations and financials is invaluable.

The deeper insight Reason Codes provide allows you to align your actions with your broader goals, knowing that each step moves your business forward with clarity.

🛠️ What It Does & How It Works:

Every time an inventory adjustment is performed in WMS+, the user will select a pre-configured Reason Code from a dropdown menu. Reasons can be created in the Admin Panel to capture spoilage or lost stock and are connected directly to your General Ledger (GL) accounts.

We did this to ensure all adjustments are logged automatically, keeping your financial data aligned in real time. Now, you have an automated audit-trail detailing every stock adjustment for a simplified workflow where logic meets reason.

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Tailor-Made Reasons: Aligning Your Logic with Customizable Reason Codes

Reason Codes aren’t a cookie-cutter solution. They are entirely customizable and allow you to formulate reasons that mesh with the unique needs of your business processes. They grant you control to align inventory adjustments with your workflows, so every action has a defined purpose.

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Data Driven Operational Efficiency & Customer Satisfaction

We know how crucial accurate data is. In industries where compliance is paramount, even minor errors can lead to costly mistakes. With WMS+ Pallet Weight Tracking, you can avoid discrepancies in shipping and reduce costs, helping you strengthen customer relationships through consistent savings enabled by operational accuracy. Our mission is to Make Business Simple; this feature helps you do just that by capturing actual pallet weights.

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What It Does & How It Works

It’s easy to use our new Pallet Weight Tracking feature.
Users manually input the recorded pallet weight using the WMS+ pallet tile screen.

After entering the weight, it is cataloged in SAP in the WMS+ License Plate tables and is therefore available across all relevant processes, such as shipping integrations. The one-time weight entry consolidates your shipping data, supporting accurate shipping cost calculations and minimizing discrepancies.

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Support Compliance in Regulated Industries

For industries like pharmaceuticals and food, precise weight tracking is essential to meet regulatory requirements. Pallet Weight Tracking ensures compliance by providing accurate weight data, which supports transparency and avoids regulatory penalties. This safeguards your business and develops trust with customers who prioritize safety and reliability.

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WMS+ Secondary Batch Tracking: Precision You Can Trust

In warehouse operations, every detail matters. Secondary Batch Tracking lets you track crucial data, like manufacturer batch numbers, with confidence. More than just an extra field, it helps you improve batch management with precision and avoid critical missteps—ideal in the pharmaceutical industry for recording pedigree requirements.

With reliable batch tracking and scanning, you can reduce errors, support compliance and provide the kind of trusted service that fosters long-term customer loyalty. This means fewer mistakes and more opportunities to improve efficiency and cost-effectiveness through consistent, high-quality operations.

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What It Does & How It Works

Secondary Batch Tracking provides WMS+ users with a supplementary batch number field, offering more flexibility in batch tracking and management. The feature optimizes batch lookup by parsing two Application Identifiers (AI) from a GS1-enabled label, meaning faster, more accurate scanning.

If the AI in the primary batch attribute doesn’t return a result, Secondary Batch Tracking acts as a backup, simplifying the batch management process and speeding up workflows.

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Improved Compliance and
Traceability

Secondary Batch Tracking simplifies audits and improves supply chain traceability, helping maintain compliance in heavily regulated industries like pharmaceuticals and food. It builds customer trust by demonstrating your commitment to “Making Business Simple”.

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IAM Integration: A Smarter Way to Secure Access


With SAP’s latest Feature Packs, WMS+ now supports Single Sign-On (SSO) through the Identity Access Management (IAM) framework. Logging in across multiple platforms has always been a headache—slowing teams down and introducing risks. IAM changes that. With just one login, your team can securely access everything they need, saving time and cutting out unnecessary hassle.

IAM offers the flexibility to seamlessly integrate into your existing setup. It works seamlessly with enterprise-wide Active Directory (AD) credentials for SSO, which are the default option once users are configured to the IDP. If you need another solution, IAM also supports additional identity providers, and SAP Business One Authentication Service is always there as a backup.

🛠️ What It Does & How It Works:

Boosting Security and Simplifying Access
With Single Sign-On (SSO), each user logs in once to access the tools they need. Role-based access guarantees everyone gets exactly the tools they require to work securely.

When logging in through an Identity Provider (IDP), user details are retrieved using the Service Layer or DI API. WMS+ connects their account automatically, so there’s no need to manage multiple logins or remember extra passwords.

Options for Your Setup
WMS+ works with Active Directory (AD) to provide secure access across your systems. If AD isn’t part of your setup, SAP Business One Authentication Service can step in as a reliable fallback.

Keeps Pace as You Grow
As your business expands, IAM grows with it. It adapts to changes, works with different identity providers, and ensures access stays secure and simple. The flexibility makes it easier to adjust as your needs change.

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Inventory Discrepancies Report: Eliminate Errors with Precision


Discrepancies between WMS+ palletized inventory, and SAP manual adjustments can cause operational delays and undermine accuracy. To address this, the Inventory Discrepancy Report and the new CW/Pallet Cases Report provide your team with powerful tools to resolve mismatches and manage inventory effectively. The reports facilitate operations by offering both high-level insights and granular control over case-level details.

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What It Does & How It Works:

The Inventory Discrepancy Report highlights mismatches by comparing WMS+ palletized stock with manual updates in SAP. Users can resolve these discrepancies within the report by updating pallet or case-level statuses and quantities. Filtering options, such as pallet identifiers, help locate data quickly, simplify reconciliation and enhance decision-making.

The new CW/Pallet Cases Report complements this functionality by providing case-level visibility for managing items like catchweight stock. Users can view and edit key details, including Case ID, status, SSCC codes and quantities to ensure accurate case management.

Together, these reports address inventory challenges at every level, reducing complexity, improving accuracy and enhancing warehouse efficiency.

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Label Watcher Enhancements: Simplify Label Configuration and Accuracy

Effective label management is critical to warehouse operations, and the updates in WMS+ v2405 deliver just that. By reducing configuration time and improving label accuracy, these updates minimize disruptions, support compliance and help teams maintain productivity even in high-demand environments. Accurate labeling reinforces customer trust through consistent, high-quality results.

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What It Does & How It Works:

The new Apply & Refresh button allows users to instantly test label changes within the Label Details interface to refresh previews for real-time validation. A redesigned Label Fragment field offers improved visibility into label configurations to help users identify and resolve issues more effectively. The default print density is now 8dpmm (203 dpi) to maintain consistent label printing quality.

The interface has a cleaner layout with renamed sections to offer a more intuitive navigation experience and a straightforward label management process for high-volume labeling environments.

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Unlock the Full Potential of WMS+ Journey

Discover the Full Power of Your WMS+ Features with Personalized Consultations.

Why settle for ‘good enough’ when greatness is within reach? With a wealth of knowledge and experience in vertical warehousing solutions, our experts will guide you through personalized consultation, showcasing features like the WMS Dashboard, empowering your team with the flexibility and control to simplify operations and plan scalable growth. WMS+ enables you to succeed on your terms because when you succeed, so do we.

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Insight on Demand: The WMS+ Portal Dashboard to Power Smarter Decisions!

You’re already succeeding with WMS+— now move the needle. The WMS+ Dashboard in the Employee Portal brings real-time insights that drive revenue-generating decisions. This isn’t just an add-on; it’s the essential next step for serious WMS+ users.

📋 Track Current Workload and Task Completion
📦 Monitor Stock Levels Easily

💡 Get Detailed Spoilage and Shelf-Life Reports

For warehouse managers, every choice matters. The WMS+ Dashboard puts real-time inventory management insights right where they belong- on the big screen, in the heart of the action. Customizable data powered by SAP UI5 means you’re never waiting, guessing, or losing momentum. It’s not just data; it’s the edge your team needs.

Ready to See Real Results?

Turn WMS+ into a powerhouse with the Employee Portal. Schedule a demo and watch your operations transform.

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Not Using WMS+ Yet?
Time to Upgrade!

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Act Now!

Join 481 others already using WMS+ to set a new standard in warehouse management. Version 2405 pushes warehouse optimization software to new heights. Ready to upgrade or start fresh? Don’t just keep up – take the lead and redefine what’s possible.

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Reimagine Your Operations with WMS+—Book Your Demo Today

Find out firsthand what sets WMS+ apart as the leader in warehouse management. Connect with your sales or account executive and see how it can reshape your operations for real impact!

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We Would Like to Extend Our Sincere Thanks:

This release wouldn’t be here today without the incredible work of our dedicated development and product teams. Your creativity, problem-solving, and commitment to excellence are what make WMS+ 2405 possible.

To everyone involved, from the first line of code to final testing, and to our partners who trust and inspire us—a sincere thank you. Together, we continue to push the boundaries of what warehouse management can achieve, making every improvement count.

Let’s keep building a future where simplicity and success go hand in hand!

The WMS+ team:

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As a family-run business, our dedication lies in ensuring your success and fostering a mutually beneficial partnership. We are deeply committed to providing products and services that address real-world challenges, enabling both you and your clients to thrive.

Your success is our success.

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To Our Valued Partners

The trust placed in us and the loyalty we experience forms the foundation of everything we achieve, and WMS+ 2405 is no exception. Every feature in this release was meticulously designed with your needs and your customers’ success in mind. We know that when your operations run smoothly, you can deliver the exceptional service your customers rely on.

This release isn’t just about updates; it’s about strengthening the tools you use every day to streamline your workflows, eliminate unnecessary hurdles, and focus on what matters most—your success. From refining the way your teams access the system to ensuring you can deliver precise results, we’ve developed WMS+ 2405 to help you work more efficiently and effectively, allowing you to build stronger customer relationships and create lasting value.

As we march headlong toward shared success, we are dedicated to simplifying complex obstacles and enabling you to focus on growth. Delivering excellence and beating the competition remains our core objective. Our commitment compels us to explore possibilities and develop solutions to meet your needs and evolve to support your goals for tomorrow.

Thank you for being part of this journey. We’re proud to be “Making Business Simple”.


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