Inventory Visibility

Inventory Visibility for Manufacturing

See raw material buffers, component staging, and finished goods locations on your production floor plan. Know where stock sits without leaving the control room.

The Problem

Where Things Break Down

Raw material buffers run empty without warning

The WMS shows quantity on hand, but not how much is staged at the point of use. An operator discovers the buffer is empty when the machine starves. The material was in the warehouse, just not where it needed to be.

Finished goods accumulate in the wrong staging area

Completed product should move to the shipping dock, but pallets stack up near the end of the line. Without a spatial view, the buildup is not visible until it blocks traffic or delays shipments.

Component kitting accuracy depends on manual verification

Kitting stations pull components from multiple locations. When one component is mislocated, the kit is incomplete. Operators discover the problem mid-assembly, not during kitting.

Our Approach

What Sandhed Does Differently

Sandhed reads inventory data from your WMS through a polling integration and maps WMS locations to physical zones on your 3D floor plan. Stock levels appear as color-coded overlays on the actual warehouse layout. Zone heatmaps show which areas are heavily stocked and which are running thin. When inventory moves, the floor plan updates. Your WMS remains the system of record. Sandhed is a read-only visualization layer that makes the data spatial.

Stock Levels on Your Floor Plan

WMS inventory data mapped to physical zones on your 3D floor plan. See stock quantities as color-coded overlays on the actual warehouse layout, updating as inventory moves.

Zone Heatmaps

Visual density maps show which zones are heavily stocked and which are running low. Identify imbalances in stock distribution without walking the floor or pulling reports.

Read-Only WMS Integration

Sandhed polls your WMS at configurable intervals to pull inventory snapshots, movements, and location data. Your WMS remains the system of record. Sandhed reads from it and displays the data spatially.

Location-to-Floor-Plan Mapping

Map WMS location codes to physical features on your floor plan through a mapping table. Once configured, every WMS location has a corresponding spot on the 3D model where inventory data displays.

Expected Outcomes

Results You Can Measure

30%Fewer failed picksReduction in picks where stock was not at expected location
20%Better space utilizationImprovement in warehouse space usage
5 minPolling intervalDefault WMS data refresh cycle
4 hrsSetup timeFrom floor plan to live inventory view
Based on platform capabilities and industry benchmarks. Results vary by facility.
FAQ

Common Questions

No. Sandhed is strictly read-only. It polls your WMS API to pull inventory snapshots, movements, and location data, then displays that information on your 3D floor plan. Your WMS remains the system of record for all inventory transactions. Sandhed never creates, modifies, or deletes WMS data.

The default polling interval is 5 minutes, which is configurable per data source. Each poll pulls a full inventory snapshot, inserts new movements into the time-series database, and updates the floor plan display. Movements between polls are captured on the next cycle.

Sandhed integrates with WMS systems that expose REST APIs for inventory and movement data. The integration uses a polling architecture that works with any WMS capable of returning inventory snapshots via HTTP. The platform normalizes vendor-specific data formats into a unified model.

A mapping table links each WMS location code (aisle, bin, zone) to a physical feature on your floor plan. Once mapped, inventory at that WMS location appears at the corresponding spot on the 3D model. The mapping is configured once during setup and updated whenever your layout changes.

Yes. Movements (receipts, picks, putaways, transfers) are stored in a time-series database. You can review movement history by location, SKU, or time period. Current inventory is shown on the floor plan while historical movements support trend analysis and zone activity reviews.

See Your Inventory on Your Floor Plan

We will model your actual facility and show you how Sandhed displays your WMS data spatially. No generic demo.