Warehouse labor, waves and docks, planned and re-planned through the shift
By 9 a.m., part of the shift hasn't shown up. By 10, rush orders have landed. By 11, the docks are congested. Your WMS records all of it. Inveno decides what to do about it: where labor goes next, which wave to release, which truck gets which door and when replenishment runs, so supervisors can run the floor instead of a screen.
The decisions Inveno makes
Labor and shift planning.
Builds the shift plan from the day's orders, your labor standards and who actually showed up, then moves people between zones as volume and attendance change. It works alongside your labor management system: the LMS measures performance against standards, and Inveno decides where labor goes next.
Wave and order release.
Releases work against cutoffs, carrier pickups and downstream capacity, so fast picking doesn't starve packing or flood the dock.
Dock scheduling and appointments.
Sequences inbound appointments and outbound loads against doors, labor and yard space, and re-sequences when a truck arrives early or late.
Replenishment.
Times replenishment to keep pick faces full without competing with picking for the same people, equipment and aisles at peak.
Order and admin work.
Confirms orders, enters data and chases exceptions across the WMS, the ERP and email, and hands a person anything it can't resolve.
One plan for the whole floor, not one metric
Supervisors are judged on getting orders out on time, so they protect ship-by times while not having the right tools to judge all the trade offs. It's the right instinct with the wrong tools. Inveno weighs on-time shipment, productivity, throughput and cost together, and sees how a change in one area shows up upstream and downstream. A 5% labor efficiency gain doesn't offset 5% late deliveries, so the plan never trades one for the other without telling you.
Built on the systems you already run
Inveno works on top of your WMS, WES, LMS, ERP and TMS, through the interfaces your team already uses. Nothing is replaced and no core system changes. Your systems of record keep recording the operation; Inveno helps run it.
Your supervisors stay in control
You decide what Inveno only recommends, what needs a supervisor's approval and what it runs on its own. Every decision shows its inputs, the rule it applied, who approved it and the result. Agents never delete or change existing records; a person does that. And the plan holds long enough for the floor to execute: Inveno re-plans when something material changes, not every 15 minutes.
How a deployment starts
Pick one workflow at one site, such as shift labor or dock scheduling or any admin task.
Inveno learns the site's rules, standards and history, then runs in shadow mode beside your team.
You compare its performance with what the floor actually did, and decide what to turn on.
Depending on the type and scale of the operation, Inveno delivers up to 20% lower operating costs and up to 80% less overtime.
Questions
Not in the traditional sense. A labor management system measures performance against engineered standards. Inveno uses those standards, plus live volume and attendance, to decide where people should work next and to re-plan through the shift. Most sites run both.
No. It works on top of them, and your WMS stays the system of record.
Yes. It sequences inbound appointments and outbound loads against doors, labor and yard space, and adjusts when trucks run early or late.
A plan for the shift, the reason behind each change, and a short list of decisions that need their approval.
With one workflow at one site, in shadow mode, so your team can judge the plans before anything runs on its own.