Warehouse management with bin locations and pick routes

A small warehouse runs on memory until it stops working. The person who knows where everything is goes on holiday, a product sits in two places and only one is known, the shop says five in stock and the shelf says none. An order sold without stock on a marketplace ends in a cancellation and a mark against the account. Large warehouse systems are built for companies with a logistics department; a seller with two rooms of shelves needs something simpler.

In Miross you draw the warehouse as it is: aisles, racks and shelves, each bin with a location such as A-03-2, which reads as aisle A, rack 3, shelf 2. Every product is assigned to one or more bins and its stock is counted per location. Goods are received by scanning them with a phone and putting them away in their bin, and returns come back into stock in the same way.

The warehouse works from the same orders as the rest of Miross. Each morning the orders to ship become a pick route that visits the bins in walking order. The labels are already made by the shipping rules, so picking and packing happen in one go. When a parcel ships, its units are deducted from the bin they came from. A purchase order received from a supplier adds stock and cost in one step.

Day to day, someone new can pick orders on the first morning, because the route says where to go. The stock figures are true because they move with real events: a receipt, a shipment, a return. Low-stock alerts tell you what to reorder before a listing runs out, and Mike answers “which products are low on stock?” with the list and the units left. Counting the whole warehouse stops being the only way to know.