The only advisor in the room who doesn't work for a vendor.
InventoryATC is an independent warehouse consultant for distributors and manufacturers. We start on your floor, with receiving, pick paths, counts, and the handoffs between them, and fix what's broken there first. If software turns out to be the answer, we help you choose it and never sell it, whatever ERP you run. Paid by you, not by the vendor who wins the deal.
If your warehouse runs on workarounds, you're not alone.
Most operations don't have one broken thing. They have a stack of small ones quietly compounding into late shipments, eroded margin, and numbers nobody trusts. These are the warning lights we hear about most.
Mispicks keep reaching customers
Every wrong pick becomes a return, a re-ship, and a dent in trust. The true cost never shows up in any single line item.
Physical counts take days
A full count shuts down the floor, eats overtime, and still ends with variances nobody can fully explain or reconcile.
Nobody believes the on-hand
The system says one thing, the shelf says another. So the team keeps shadow spreadsheets and double-checks everything by hand.
Pickers walk miles per shift
Slotting and pick paths grew by accident, not design. Labor goes into travel time instead of picks out the door.
Stock is in, but invisible
Putaway lags behind receiving, so product sits in the building unavailable to sell or pick until someone catches up.
Bad numbers reach finance
Inaccurate counts flow straight into the ERP, so planning and finance build decisions on data they can't fully rely on.
You don't need every light flashing to have a problem worth fixing. The hard part is telling which symptoms are process and which are software before you spend a dollar on either. That diagnosis is exactly where we start.
Start with the warehouse, not the software.
A Flight Check is two to four weeks on your floor: receiving, put-away, pick paths, replenishment, cycle counts, and the handoffs between them. It stands on its own. Whether software comes next is a separate decision, and often the answer is no.
- Current-state process map of how your operation actually runs
- Future-state map showing what it should look like
- Findings report with an ROI estimate against each item
- A prioritized 90-day plan you can execute without us
- How do you make money if you don't take vendor fees?
- You pay us directly, and that's the only money involved. Nobody sends us a referral fee, we hold no reseller agreements, and we earn nothing different depending on which system you end up with. That's the whole model, and it's why we can tell you to keep what you have.
- What if the answer is that we don't need new software?
- Then we say so, in writing, and you've spent the cost of an assessment instead of the cost of a system that wouldn't have fixed the problem. This happens more often than the software industry likes to admit. Layout, process, and discipline problems don't get solved by a new platform.
- Who is this actually for?
- Distributors and manufacturers roughly between $5M and $100M in revenue. Big enough that the operation is genuinely complex, small enough that a Big Four engagement makes no sense and you don't have a full-time ops analyst on staff.
- What does the engagement look like day to day?
- We spend time on your floor, not in a conference room. Receiving, put-away, pick paths, replenishment, cycle counts, and the handoffs between them. Then we map what we saw and show you where the money is leaking.
When the person recommending the software also gets paid to sell it, that's not advice. It's a pitch.
An air traffic controller doesn't fly the plane and doesn't work for the airline. They have authority because they're independent. Their only job is to get every flight down safely. That's the role we play, whether the decision is about your process or your software.
Paid by the vendor
- ✕Earn commission on the platform they recommend
- ✕"Vendor-neutral" but carry preferred partnerships
- ✕Demos staged to hide the gaps
- ✕Incentive is the sale, not your outcome
Paid only by you
- ✓Zero commissions, kickbacks, or referral fees
- ✓No software to sell, no preferred platform
- ✓Built your demo scripts to expose the gaps
- ✓Our only incentive is the right outcome for you
Three ways to engage. Start where you are.
Each engagement is complete and scoped to a specific outcome. Start with one, or combine them as your project needs.
Flight Check · Operational Assessment
A focused assessment of your current operation (layout, pick paths, receiving, replenishment) ending in process maps and a prioritized 90-day plan you can run without us. Complete on its own. Whether software comes next is a separate decision.
Flight Plan · System Selection
End-to-end guidance to select the best-fit WMS. We turn your requirements into vendor-ready specs, run demos, score solutions side-by-side, and support contract review.
Tower Control · Implementation Oversight
Independent oversight to keep your rollout on course. We coordinate stakeholders, track milestones, mitigate risk, and prep your floor for cutover. The implementation partner handles the technical work.
Diagnose. Decide. Deliver.
Three phases, each scoped and standalone. Many engagements are the first phase alone. Engage at the phase that matches where you are.
See the operation clearly
We map pick paths, receiving, and replenishment, then baseline KPIs. Many “software problems” are process problems, and those are cheaper to fix first. For a lot of warehouses, this is the whole engagement.
Select the right system
Requirements become vendor-neutral specs. We shortlist, script demos, and score side-by-side to produce a defensible recommendation, not a gut call.
Land the implementation
We coordinate stakeholders, track milestones, and hold the project honest through cutover as your independent advocate from kickoff to go-live.
13+ years inside the WMS channel. Now working against it.
The founder spent over a decade in ERP and WMS channel sales across the Sage 100, Acumatica, NetSuite, and Dynamics ecosystems, and plenty more, working directly with thousands of distributors, manufacturers, and retailers. He knows exactly how vendors pitch, how demos are staged to hide gaps, and what's actually negotiable in a contract. He was on the other side of those conversations for years.
That fluency now works for buyers, not sellers. The same knowledge that helped vendors win deals now helps you evaluate them honestly, with no one on the vendor side paying for the privilege.
Start with a Flight Check.
A 2–3 week operational assessment. You get a findings report, process maps, and a 90-day action plan, whether or not software turns out to be the right answer. No commitment to the next step.
RESPONSE WITHIN ONE BUSINESS DAY · NO SALES PITCH