How to Determine if You Need a Warehouse Management System

There’s greater danger lurking in the way orders themselves are defined. Many systems handle orders with multiple line items as a single grouping of multiple lines, while others treat each line item as a separate entity tied together by the order number. This can have a significant impact on the way an order is picked, packed and shipped, particularly with multi-line orders that don’t ship complete and entail multiple back-order shipments.