Third Party Logistics

Built for 3PL Complexity. Engineered for Growth.

When every customer is different, your WMS must adapt fast. Footprint® WMS helps 3PLs scale faster, capture more revenue, and stay ready for anything.

When Your WMS Works But Your Business Has Outgrown It.

the challenge

 3PLs today are under more pressure than ever. Customers expect faster onboarding, real-time visibility, specialized workflows, and flexible pricing, all while margins continue to tighten.

But many warehouse management systems were not built for this level of complexity.

As operations grow, 3PLs often face:

  • Multi-client complexity and constantly changing customer requirements
  • Manual billing processes and missed accessorial charges
  • Limited visibility across warehouses, customers, and operations
  • Integration challenges with customer and partnery systems
  • Difficulty scaling across new customers, services, and locations

What once worked well can quickly become a constraint. Instead of enabling growth, the WMS starts slowing it down. That’s why more 3PLs are rethinking what they should expect from their warehouse management system.

Your Customers Expect Flexibility. Your WMS Should Do More. Don't Settle.

Our solution

When every client has different rules, workflows, and SLAs, rigid systems slow you down. Footprint® WMS is built for multi-client 3PL environments, making it easy to adapt as requirements change.

Configurable workflows, labels, billing, inventory logic, and customer portals by client, without heavy development or long delays.

With Datex, 3PLs can:

  • Adapt faster to new customers
  • Capture complex billing automatically
  • Provide real-time customer visibility
  • Support specialized services and workflows
  • Scale across locations and growth

Footprint WMS helps 3PLs run smoother, onboard faster, and stay ready for whatever comes next.

One client thought something was wrong when invoices jumped 30–40% after go-live. They had been underbilling for years and saw ROI in the first month with Footprint® WMS.

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See How Others Succeed with Datex

Billing

Capture Every Charge, Every Time

Automate billing per customer, per SLA, with zero missed touches. Whether it’s storage days, value-added services, or special handling, Datex Footprint WMS records every activity as it happens so your invoicing is fast, accurate, and defensible. Never leave money on the floor again.

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Labor Optimization

Efficient Teams, Happier Clients

Assign, track, and optimize labor based on the unique needs of each customer without adding extra headcount. With task interleaving, productivity dashboards, and exception alerts, managers gain real-time visibility into warehouse flow and can quickly reallocate resources to stay on schedule.

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Customer Visibility

Self-Service that Eliminates the Back-and-Forth

Give your clients their own window into operations with branded portals that deliver real-time inventory views, order statuses, and customizable reporting. Footprint keeps your customers informed, reducing support calls, building confidence, and freeing your team to focus on growth.

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Inventory Management

Simplified Multi-Client Control

Datex Footprint WMS makes it easy to manage inventory across customers, zones, and workflows. With license plate tracking and easily configurable logic per client using Datex Studio, you’ll gain full visibility while maintaining the operational flexibility 3PLs need to serve a variety of clients under one roof.

Eskimo Cold Storage: High-Volume Cold Chain Management with High-Touch Service

Case studies

Eskimo Cold Storage operates a high-volume facility in Georgia, moving over 10 million pounds of frozen product weekly for poultry producers across the Southeast.

They turned to Datex Footprint WMS for real-time inventory visibility, automated putaway and picking, and a system flexible enough to meet strict customer SLAs.

See How We Helped
  • We had the 3PL WMS up and running in approximately 45 days. Our priority was to provide our customers with the service that they deserve as soon as possible, so we were pretty happy with the speed of the implementation and how robust the system was. It can handle everything that we need.

    Karen Reece

    Vice President, Eskimo Cold Storage

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    Seamless third-party integrations to keep your entire business connected.

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