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WarehouseOS is a low cost of entry inventory management app that helps companies address these common challenges, according to Tim Hoj, CEO of Hoj Innovations, the parent company to Warehouse Mobile Solutions. Founded by experienced material handling professionals, Warehouse Mobile Solutions has been changing the landscape of distribution centers and warehouses by implementing innovative processes through visualization on a tablet. Deployed as a native app through the Apple App store, WarehouseOS has an extremely simple interface that allows faster and more accurate picks. In many cases, this cloud-based tablet-based fulfillment has cut the amount of time and cost it takes to fulfill daily orders in half through its patented visual processes.

WarehouseOS and associated apps have been developed to make everything about the warehouse easier and better, according to Tim Hoj, CEO of Hoj Innovations, the parent company to WarehouseOS. Apps allow small or large companies to receive products, manage inventory, perform cycle counting, conduct single picks or batch picking, verify items picked and pack them into boxes.

WarehouseOS, a tablet-based Warehouse Operation System, was implemented in the new distribution center at Big Agnes. The Colorado-based company, located in the Rocky Mountains, creates innovative tents, sleeping pads, bags, camping accessories, and apparel for outdoor adventures in specialty backpacking stores.

WarehouseOS is a low cost of entry inventory management app that helps companies address these common challenges, according to Tim Hoj, CEO of Hoj Innovations, the parent company to Warehouse Mobile Solutions. Founded by experienced material handling professionals, Warehouse Mobile Solutions has been changing the landscape of distribution centers and warehouses by implementing innovative processes through visualization on a tablet. Deployed as a native app through the Apple App store, WarehouseOS has an extremely simple interface that allows faster and more accurate picks. In many cases, this cloud-based tablet-based fulfillment has cut the amount of time and cost it takes to fulfill daily orders in half through its patented visual processes.

WarehouseOS and associated apps have been developed to make everything about the warehouse easier and better, according to Tim Hoj, CEO of Hoj Innovations, the parent company to WarehouseOS. Apps allow small or large companies to receive products, manage inventory, perform cycle counting, conduct single picks or batch picking, verify items picked and pack them into boxes.

Warehouse Mobile Solutions, in partnership with HOJ Engineering and Sales, a leader in organizational consulting and material handling, completed the material handling infrastructure for Piper & Scoot's new distribution center in Bluffdale, Utah. Hoj Engineering and Warehouse Mobile Solutions designed, installed, and integrated all aspects of the material handling equipment, including the integration of WarehouseOS (WOS), an innovative tablet warehouse operations system. Utilizing the latest version of WarehouseOS, the order fulfillment process is integrated with both Shopify and ShipStation to seamlessly download orders and update their webstore inventory in real-time. WarehouseOS is an empowerment tool to replace the traditional management systems historically referred to as a WMS.

HOJ Innovations, the parent company to WarehouseOS, conducts a thorough evaluation process of how labor is utilized to receive and ship product and has found in hundreds of e-commerce operations. According to Tim Hoj, CEO of Hoj Innovations, reducing warehouse labor costs is often a matter of small adjustments and process improvements to existing operations. Continuous process improvement reduces warehouse labor costs while achieving enhanced productivity goals, increased production, and a significant reduction in warehouse operation expenses.

Tim Hoj is the CEO of Hoj Engineering and the head of Warehouse Mobile Solutions, makers of WarehouseOS, since 1992. The Salt Lake City, UT-based Hoj Engineering is the leader in material handling equipment and solutions. Hoj brings his vision on how to deliver highest value to Hoj's customers through innovative material handling design and mobile computing technologies to drive productivity in the warehouse fulfillment environment.

Companies, such as Warehouse Mobile Solutions, makers of WarehouseOS, are making a strong movement to tablets as the preferred mechanism in materials handling. Warehouse Mobile Solutions tablet technology for warehouse management was recently featured in an article titled, "Warehouses Move to Tablet Technology," in AutomationMedia.com magazine.

As the holiday season approaches for fast growing small eCommerce firms, WarehouseOS Apps allows companies to receive products, manage inventory, perform cycle counting, conduct single picks or do batch picking, verify items picked, and pack them into boxes. Even small eCommerce operations must scale rapidly during the upcoming holiday rush. Manufacturing journalist, Thomas R. Cutler recently authored the article, titled, "Holiday Shipping Approaches: Increasing Demand for Rules Based Warehouse Control Systems," in Automation.com magazine.