WILMINGTON, DE — PULPO WMS has expanded its warehouse-management software into demand forecasting, automated billing and merchant self-service, extending the platform beyond warehouse execution as fulfillment providers seek to reduce manual work across increasingly complex operations.
The software release, completed for all PULPO customers in August, adds purchasing and inventory-planning functions alongside expanded automation for picking, replenishment, receiving, returns and order fulfillment.
For third-party logistics providers, PULPO introduced a dedicated portal that gives individual merchants access to inventory, dispatch performance, expiry data, sales orders, returns, demand analytics and invoices. Customers can also raise order-specific questions through an integrated messaging system.
The portal is paired with an activity-based billing system covering more than 60 services, including receiving, storage, picking, packing, returns and other fulfillment work. Rates can be configured for individual merchants, with charges recorded as warehouse activities occur.
That approach is designed to shift billing from a month-end reconstruction of warehouse activity toward reviewing charges already captured by the system.
PULPO is also moving upstream into inventory planning. A new purchasing module uses historical sales data to forecast when individual SKUs could run out and recommend reorder quantities based on a buyer-defined coverage period.
Purchase orders can be created and managed within the platform. Expanded expiry controls allow inventory approaching expiration to be quarantined or trigger a count directly from the inventory interface.
Warehouse execution has also gained additional automation. Operators can create rules that automatically convert incoming orders into picking tasks based on factors including order size, item quantity and cart capacity.
Demand-driven analysis examines open orders to identify inventory that should be moved into primary picking or cross-dock areas before orders are released. Replenishment rules can now be applied across entire warehouse zones and multiple facilities rather than configured location by location.
For smaller warehouses, PULPO added a simplified routing system that allows operators to retain existing location names and assign distance values from packing areas, creating optimized picking routes without implementing a more extensive warehouse-mapping system.
The release also introduces put-wall sortation for separating batch-picked merchandise by order or product before packing. A cartonization algorithm recommends how orders should be divided and stacked among available box sizes.
Receiving, returns and cycle counting can now be managed entirely from desktop computers, extending processes that previously depended on PULPO’s mobile application. Warehouse employees can accept or quarantine products, print labels in batches and schedule inventory counts by location or product tag.
The company rebuilt its browser-based workspace as part of the release, adding keyboard navigation and bringing additional mobile workflows onto desktop systems.
“The goal was not a prettier interface,” PULPO Chief Executive Officer Thomas Kircheis said. “It was to remove manual steps across the whole operation, from purchasing to picking to billing, and to give 3PLs a way to serve their merchants without a single spreadsheet.”
PULPO operates in more than 20 countries and provides cloud-based warehouse-management software to e-commerce companies and fulfillment providers.
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