A scan starts the clock. Loading stops it.
Pickup and delivery runs, receiving scans, spots, stock by shipper, piece labels, picking in walk order, cycle counts, and the storage charges that reach the invoice because two scans wrote down when they started and stopped.
What it replaces
Most warehouses already do all of this, on paper.
Six places where the work happens.
The scan at the door
Pieces scanned in against the shipment, given a spot, and counted into that shipper’s stock. This is the moment the storage clock starts.
Where it is, whose it is
Locations on the floor, stock held per shipper, and piece labels printed from the record rather than written on the carton.
In the order the floor is walked
The pick list is sorted by the route through the building rather than by the order the lines were typed into the shipment.
Cycle counting
A slice of the floor is counted at a time, against the stock the record says is there, without closing the warehouse for a weekend.
Charges and the rules behind them
Free time in business days, money in calendar days, a minimum applied once. It has its own page because it is where the money is.
The field app
Pickup and delivery runs, barcode scanning, proof of delivery with photo, signature and GPS, an offline queue, four languages.
Receive → store → pick → load. The clock runs down the right-hand side.
Warehouse money is lost between these four rows — not because anybody is careless, but because the start and the end were remembered instead of written down.
Receiving scan
Pieces come in against the shipment and take a spot. Whoever scanned it and when is on the record.
It sits in a spot, under a shipper
Stock is held per shipper, so “how much of his is here” is a screen rather than a walk around the building.
Picked in walk order
The list follows the route through the racks. Pieces are scanned as they are taken, and labels print from the record.
Loaded out
Loading closes the clock. The charge line is built from those two stamps and goes to billing with everything else on the shipment.
This is the reason storage reaches the invoice.
A CFS that bills storage from memory bills the boxes it happens to remember. Two scans that already had to happen — one to receive, one to load — are the two ends of the charge, so the line exists whether or not anyone thought about it at month end.
The reason the driver’s phone matters.
The stamps are only worth something if they were made where the work happened. That is why the field app scans on the phone, captures the proof of delivery on the phone, and holds the work in a queue when the yard has no signal rather than asking the driver to remember it until it does.
The field app, with no signal.
A dock with steel over it is the normal case rather than the edge case. The queue lives in the browser on the phone, and the driver keeps working.
Four languages, on the phone only.
The eleven screens the driver uses run in four languages. The staff screens do not — those are English, and AMC prefers to state that here rather than have it discovered after warehouse staff have been hired. The proof of delivery the driver captured here is also the one the customer retrieves on the public site, photo and signature included.
The other five already know this record.
SCM
The storage line joins the shipment’s other charges at month end, and hired trucking sits there too — where waiting time becomes a charge line instead of an argument.
QMS
A storage rule can charge per revenue ton, which is the same W/M convention the ocean tariff uses: one cubic metre or 1,000 kilos, whichever yields the greater revenue.
ABI
Customs records sit on the same shipment the pieces were scanned against. ISF, AES and AMS are prepared and the responses recorded. AMC does not transmit to CBP.
Portal
The proof of delivery captured on the driver’s phone is what a customer gets back from a POD lookup on the public site, without signing in.
LiveTrack
Stage 1Delayed, arrived, out for delivery, delivered — the four pushes, off the same record these scans write to.
The platform
WMS is two switches — the warehouse, and first and last mile. One, both or neither can be purchased.
Asked by people who run a dock.
Does the field app work with no signal?
What if the driver’s phone cannot scan barcodes?
How does a storage charge get onto an invoice?
Can it print UPS, FedEx or USPS labels?
A disputed month of storage is welcome.
The two scans are run, the free days are counted as business days and the charged days as calendar days, and the resulting line is shown — with the inputs printed on the line, so it can be checked against the invoice that was sent.