For distribution, wholesale, and manufacturing companies
Opening a new distribution centre?

Plan the integrations first

A new warehouse only works if orders, stock, and shipping are connected from day one. Plan the integrations between your ERP, your warehouse system, your carriers, and your 3PLs before the first order ships.

Or download the integration checklist for your new system

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About 30 minutes with an integration specialist
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Free and without obligation
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Recommended next steps
What has to connect in your warehouse project?
New distribution centreOpening or relocating a site
New WMSMoving to a new warehouse system
Additional warehouseRunning stock across multiple sites
Whichever you pick, it has to connect to:
A new distribution centre needs new connections to:
A new WMS takes over the connections to:
An additional warehouse shares orders and stock with:
  • ERP
  • WMS
  • Webshop
  • B2B portal
  • EDI partners
  • Carriers
  • 3PLs
  • ERP
  • Webshop
  • B2B portal
  • EDI partners
  • Carriers
  • 3PLs
  • ERP
  • Webshop
  • EDI partners
  • Carriers
  • 3PLs
  • ERP
  • WMS
  • Webshop
  • 3PLs
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When to plan the integrations in your warehouse project
Compare what happens to your integrations with and without an integration platform.
Without Alumio
With Alumio
1
WMS chosen
2
Warehouse set-up
Plan them here
4
Stock moves in
5
First order
The warehouse
The integrations
Day one
Site & system chosen
Set-up and testing
All built and tested together
Orders ship on time
Built one at a time
Still not finished
Orders get stuck
3
Testing

One integration layer means every flow is built and tested alongside the set-up, so the first order ships on time.

Built one at a time, the integrations are still unfinished when the first orders come in.

Why it matters

Your WMS isn't fully ready until its connections are.

Most distribution centre projects start with one connection in mind: the warehouse system to the ERP. But the webshop, EDI customers, carriers, and 3PLs need orders, stock, and shipping updates too. By the first order, all of them have to work at once. Alumio is the integration platform (iPaaS) that runs every connection in one place, built and tested together.

Customers like you

Orders and stock in sync, every day

What these companies keep in sync on one integration layer.

Distribution

Connect orders, stock, and shipping status across your ERP, the new warehouse system, your carriers, and your 3PLs before the first order ships.

Orders, shipments, and stock synced in real time

  • Kerridge
  • Adobe Commerce
  • Optiply

AFL Groep supplies logistics consumables to warehouses and distribution centres through its Dutch and Belgian webshops. By connecting its Kerridge ERP to Adobe Commerce on the Alumio integration platform, it synchronises orders, shipments, product stock, prices, and supplier information in real time. A second connection with Optiply keeps stock, sales orders, and purchase orders aligned for automated inventory management.

Wholesale

Keep suppliers, customers, and your B2B portal in step with the new warehouse, from purchase order to delivery.

Stock and supplier orders run automatically

  • Exact Online
  • Shopware
  • Sales Layer
  • Snowflake

Maxilia connects Exact Online, Shopware, Sales Layer, its CRM, and its suppliers on the Alumio integration platform. Stock updates and order handling with suppliers run automatically, orders are split across suppliers with different lead times to keep promised delivery dates, and errors are flagged in real time.

Manufacturing

Connect production, product data, and webshop orders to the new warehouse, so finished goods are ready to sell from the start.

Stock checked every 15 minutes

  • Dynamics 365 F&O
  • Shopware
  • PIM
  • Paving software

Morssinkhof's landscape had grown to 25 scattered applications. Using the Alumio integration platform, it now connects the core ones: its ERP (Dynamics 365 F&O), its webshop (Shopware), its PIM, and its industry software for decorative paving. Stock for around 5,000 products is checked every 15 minutes, and webshop orders flow into the ERP automatically.

why one layer

Where a new warehouse gets stuck

The risk is rarely the building. It's the flows around it, on one opening date.

01
The problem

Orders don't reach the new warehouse

Or they arrive late, with the wrong data.

The fix

Route every order to the right warehouse in one place, where you can see what runs, who changed what, and when.

02
The problem

Stock is out of sync

Your webshop and customers see different stock than the warehouse.

The fix

Sync stock between your warehouse system, ERP, and sales channels, in real time or on a schedule.

03
The problem

Carriers and 3PLs have to be reconnected

Every connection, under time pressure, just before go-live.

The fix

Connect carriers and 3PLs once, to the same layer, so a new site doesn't mean rebuilding every link.

Next step: connect the new warehouse

Book your free integration assessment

One of our integration specialists maps your integration needs with you: which systems need to work together, and what matters most for your project.

  1. 1
    Tell us about your projectA few details about your system landscape, so we can prepare.
  2. 2
    Map your integration needs togetherAbout 30 minutes on the key integrations your first order depends on.
  3. 3
    Get your recommendationsA detailed summary with recommended next steps. Free and without obligation.

Work with your own IT team or agency, or choose from our network of implementation partners and system integration specialists.

Integration checklist

Key checks before your new distribution centre goes live

Start with these three questions before your new system goes live. The full checklist goes further, with 10 questions and three checks each.

  1. 2
    Which processes must keep running during the switch, such as orders, prices, and stock?
  2. 3
    Which connections with customers and suppliers, such as EDI, are affected?
  3. 6
    How do you test the integrations before go-live?
Download the checklist

Not ready for a conversation yet? The checklist is free.

FAQ

Questions we often hear

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How do you integrate a WMS with your ERP?

You integrate a WMS with your ERP by connecting both to an integration platform (iPaaS), so orders, stock, and shipping status move between them automatically, in real time or on a schedule. Your webshop or B2B portal, EDI customers and suppliers, carriers, and 3PLs can connect to the same integration layer, so every flow runs in one place.

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How do you keep orders flowing during a warehouse relocation?

To keep orders flowing during a warehouse relocation, connect the old and the new warehouse to one integration platform, so both can run in parallel. You then move flows over one at a time, instead of switching everything on moving day.

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How are carriers and 3PLs integrated?

Carriers and 3PLs are integrated through an integration platform that also connects your ERP and warehouse system, using ready-made connectors or custom integrations. When you add a carrier or change 3PL later, you connect it once to that integration layer, without rebuilding the other connections.

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Who builds the integrations, and can our own team manage them after go-live?

Your own IT team or agency can build the integrations, or a partner from our network of implementation partners and system integration specialists, and your own team can manage them after go-live. Alumio is a config-first integration platform: your team configures mappings, rules, and changes in forms instead of writing code. For developers who prefer code for edge cases, the platform provides the Code Transformer to write JavaScript. With every integration in one place and monitored in real time, you get alerts when something goes wrong and logs that show who changed what, and you're not dependent on one developer or vendor.

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What happens in the free integration assessment?

The free integration assessment starts with a few details about your project and system landscape, so we can prepare. Then you spend about 30 minutes on the key integrations your new warehouse depends on. After that, you get a detailed summary with recommended next steps. It's free and without obligation.

Ready when you are

Every new system is an integration project. Plan it first.

About 30 minutes with an integration specialist. Free and without obligation.