Technical wholesale carries very large catalogues where many items look alike and substitution is common. A warehouse management system confirms the exact article at pick, holds supersession and alternative relationships on the item, and keeps fast and slow movers in storage and pick strategies that suit their turnover.
Technical wholesale lives on breadth. Tens of thousands of fasteners, bearings, seals, fittings and tools, most of them nearly identical to the one in the next bin, sold across a webshop, a trade counter and a field sales team at the same time. The margin is thin and the errors are expensive, because a wrong part does not just come back — it stops a customer's machine. BizBloqs makes the part number, the bin and the batch the thing that drives the work, so accuracy stops depending on who is on shift.
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Every bin and every part is scanned on the pick, so a variant that differs by five millimetres or one coating grade cannot be substituted by eye. The check happens inside the pick rather than as a separate inspection step, which is why accuracy rises without the pick rate falling.
Bin locations are reslotted on real pick frequency, so the parts that move every day sit within a few steps of the packing bench and the long tail sits further out. Multi-order batch picking then turns one walk into many orders instead of one.
Counting is done as cycle counts on the bins that matter most, driven by movement and value, so the annual stocktake stops being a shutdown and stock accuracy is maintained continuously.
Over-the-counter issues are booked against stock the moment they happen, so the webshop, the ERP and the physical shelf are never telling three different stories about the same part.
Customer-specific kits are held as a bill of materials with guided assembly, so a kit is built complete and its components are depleted correctly rather than disappearing from stock unrecorded.
Material and test certificates are linked to the batch and issued with the delivery documents, and open purchase orders are visible alongside allocated stock, so the delivery date quoted to a contract customer is one the operation can actually keep.
Thousands of near-identical parts are picked by eye and the wrong variant ships
Every bin and part scanned on the pick, so an M8 x 25 can never leave the building as an M8 x 30
Fast movers are scattered across the racking and pickers walk the whole warehouse
Bin locations reslotted on real pick frequency, with multi-order batch picking so one walk serves many orders
Trade counter sales are written down and only reach the system hours later
Over-the-counter issues booked against stock as they happen, so web, ERP and the shelf agree at all times
Customer-specific kits are assembled by hand and components are missed
Kits held as a bill of materials with guided assembly and component-level stock, so a kit is never shipped short
Test certificates and declarations are chased by email after the goods have gone
Material and test certificates linked to the batch and issued automatically with the delivery documents
Next-day promises are made without knowing what supplier replenishment will land
Open purchase orders, incoming quantities and allocated stock in one view, so the delivery date quoted is the date that holds
BizBloqs has implemented and optimized numerous features that are highly relevant to technical wholesale. We highlighted a few below.
Bin and part scanned on every pick so near-identical variants cannot be swapped
Bin locations reslotted on real pick frequency to cut walking distance
Multi-order picking so one walk through the bin aisles serves many orders
Counter issues booked against stock in real time across every channel
Kits held as a bill of materials with guided assembly and component stock
Certificates shipped with the goods and incoming supply visible when promising a date
Operations like yours already run on BizBloqs
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Match it to how you operate
The compliance and commercial detail above is the same for everyone in technical wholesale. What changes is how you run: production, fulfilment, wholesale or third-party logistics. Pick your operating model to see the process fit.
BizBloqs has developed a unique platform which can be configured to create many solutions for every logistic challenge we have encountered. Our combined experience and expertise in our field makes us trusted advisors and experts to address your needs.
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Track your inventory in real-time and never fail to fulfill your customer orders again. Deep insights into stock levels and all related movements allow you to keep customers informed perfectly.
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Choose your solution
BizBloqs is a warehouse platform, delivered in three solutions. Start where your operation is today, extend when you are ready. Each solution includes WMS at its core, with Order Management and Integrations layered in at the depth that fits your business.
Small and medium businesses running one warehouse, a growing order volume and a team that is doing too much by hand.
Scaling mid-market businesses selling across several channels, holding stock in more than one place, and outgrowing a single-warehouse setup.
Larger and multi-entity organisations with complex handling requirements, established ERP landscapes and formal governance obligations.
Why take our word for it? We let our customers convince you instead. BizBloqs customers are happy with their solutions and don’t hesitate to share their positive experiences. Our ability to turn any challenge into an efficient solution never fails to impress!
BizBloqs was one of the first to provide a WMS with scanning capabilities and we started a journey together. Our operations have gotten a lot more complex, advanced and especially bigger over the past 5 years and we have simply grown together.
Nick Bisselink, Financial/Operational Director
When we had extensive logistic requirements beyond the capabilities of our financial solution, BizBloqs shared its expertise to transform Lantaarn’s entire warehouse experience together
Lantaarn Publishers
We needed a better, more transparent and practical system for our incoming and outgoing product flow. A direct overview in our stock and all our logistics movements was really a must. BizBloqs helped us from the start!
Rik Klein - Sales manager
In addition to a scan procedure with EDI integration, BizBloqs has set up an entire production system for us. Production planning can provide direct instructions and as soon as they are ready, it all arrives in the OMS. This gives us a larger production capacity and a drastic reduction of the picking mistakes in dispatching.
Reinier Schot, Head of Production
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