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Warehouse Efficiency & Productivity: Real-World NetSuite WMS Results
Helping Customers Improve Efficiency and Productivity
True warehouse productivity isn’t just about making your staff work faster—it’s about eliminating the friction that keeps them from working efficiently. For some companies, productivity means slashing new-hire onboarding from weeks to minutes. For others, it means doubling total order output without adding a single new headcount, or completely eliminating the overtime costs associated with paper-based picking.
With efficiency being the top business priority for WMS implementations, how does a NetSuite WMS solution like RF-SMART solve this need?
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Proven Results by Operational Goal
RF-SMART's native NetSuite WMS architecture is designed to meet your warehouse where it is today, providing the tools and best practices required to reach your specific efficiency goals.
Labor Savings
The true test of a WMS is whether it breaks the linear relationship between order volume and payroll. Companies like Skin Script and Fisk Industries utilized RF-SMART’s streamlined workflows to absorb massive spikes in daily orders—in some cases doubling their total output—without adding proportional headcount to the warehouse floor.
Rapid Onboarding & Training - Peak Season Flexibility
For retailers and distributors navigating seasonal spikes, the ability to rapidly scale temporary labor up and down is vital. Operators like Thunderworks and Frescobol Carioca leveraged RF-SMART to drastically cut the number of temporary shipping staff required to survive their busiest months, saving tens of thousands of dollars while maintaining perfect fulfillment volumes.
Paperless Output & Automation
Manual data entry, paper pick tickets, and spreadsheets create operational drag that limits how much a single worker can accomplish in an hour. By transitioning to fully paperless operations and utilizing mobile dimensioning, companies like Estyle Corp, Mann Lake, and Ruroc eliminated the "goose hunt" of manual tracking, slashing overall labor costs by up to 50% and boosting individual worker productivity by more than 75%.
Maximizing IT & Admin Resources
Warehouse efficiency extends beyond the loading dock. By automating decision-making on the floor, RF-SMART frees up back-office and IT staff as well. Companies like Golden Valley Farm Supply and UVA Bookstore eliminated massive amounts of weekly administrative overtime, while Marketplace Pros and Slate Rock FR empowered floor managers to train new hires in under 30 minutes, bypassing IT bottlenecks entirely.
Estyle Corp – Cut overall labor costs by 50%
"RF-SMART is a huge part of transforming our warehouse from the unorganized mess that it was, to the highly efficient warehouse it is today."
Pete Lawney
Director of Manufacturing
Industry: Manufacturing
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Golden Valley Farm Supply – Saved 60+ hours of overtime per week
"We were doing lots of overtime, 60+ hours a week, to get things done on paper. Now with RF-SMART, we don't have to work weekends to put out fires. Since we've started with RF-SMART, we have had no weekend work."
Juan Cano
Director of Operations
Industry: Distribution
Slate Rock FR – Training time reduced to less than a minute
"Scanning through the entire process is huge. You can grab anybody from the warehouse and they can immediately start fulfilling orders."
Kayla Hill
Warehouse Manager
Industry: Retail & E-commerce
Mann Lake – Shipped 12% more orders with 10% less labor
"We shipped out 12% more orders while decreasing labor by 10%."
By adopting RF-SMART's mobile dimensioning, the company also avoided 2-3 months of manual labor that would have previously required a dedicated team of 6-8 people.
Shana Rowlette
Chief Financial Officer
Industry: Distribution
KR Strikeforce – 30% decrease in labor costs
"RF-SMART takes the guesswork out and reduces decisions made by the shipping clerk. It's tremendous."
By automating shipping decisions, the company saved the equivalent of a full day of labor during their peak Black Friday volume spikes.
Sue Roulo
Sales Administrator
Industry: Manufacturing
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Skin Script – Doubled capacity without adding headcount The company absorbed 100% volume growth, scaling from 250 orders per day to 500+ orders per day entirely through software efficiency rather than proportional labor increases.
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"It eliminated the need for paper pick slips and going back and forth to a PC terminal to manually enter data into NetSuite." Peter Westlake |
"We're benefiting from the decrease in errors – but it's the increase in efficiency that's really improved our company." Tim Chapmane |
Thunderworks – Distribution 75% reduction in picking time
"Pick Manager lets me batch orders strategically, which has cut down on picking time by 75% on orders with eaches."
By cutting out picking inefficiencies, Thunderworks was able to confidently scale their peak season shipping staff down from 9 people to just 2 while maintaining their full volume.
James Stanley
Operations Director
Industry: Distribution
Marketplace Pros – 94% reduction in onboarding time
"This functionality has allowed us to get rid of our old manual processes and improve our user experience."
The intuitive UI reduced the time required to train a new warehouse employee from a full day to approximately 30 minutes.
Ann Traphagen
Director of People and Productivity
Industry: Distribution
Gump's – Doubled orders shipped per shift
"With RF-SMART Shipping, we've had teammates double the amount of orders they've been able to ship per shift. That was huge for us."
Leo Moran
Warehouse Operations Manager
Industry: Retail & E-commerce
TWG Supply – Executing live transactions on day one
"After finding RF-SMART, I had people up and going, running transactions on the first day we were live. Being able to get up quickly and not have issues only increases their buy-in, minimizes their downtime, and improves our overall ROI."
Bill Tyler
Director of Operations
Industry: Distribution
Ruroc – >75% increase in labor productivity
"By streamlining warehouse operations using RF-SMART's WMS and Pick Manager, we noticed a significant boost in efficiency while increasing labor productivity by more than 75%."
Angus Flynn
Warehouse Manager
Industry: Manufacturing
SleepCorp – 40% improvement in operational output
The company achieved a 40% improvement in operational output by natively integrating RF-SMART with an AMR grid of 16 autonomous robots.
"With RF-SMART Automation, we have eliminated the manual aspects of the picking process."
Jay Patel
IT Systems Manager
Industry: Manufacturing
Every Meal – Quadrupled output for six straight months
During the COVID-19 crisis, the non-profit utilized RF-SMART's intuitive interface to seamlessly onboard volunteers, completely eliminating their reliance on Excel spreadsheets to track massive volume spikes.
"Through demand planning and RF-SMART, we were able to create a purchase list in 15 minutes, ordering 70,000 bags of food."
Nicole Price
Sr. Technical Project Manager
Industry: Non-Profit
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