For wholesale houses and regional distributors
Exception maps you can pin above the despatch desk.
Utilityroutecore visits the warehouse, times the pauses that never reach a receipt screen, and returns printed boards: late inbound, short picks, missed collections. The work is a study, not a login.
What a distributor can actually commission
We do not install warehouse software. We observe goods-in, pick paths, and carrier bays, then draw the picture your shift leads already half-know. Most work starts with a site visit from Pubil across the United Kingdom.
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Warehouse fulfilment visibility study
A three-week engagement that traces pick, pack, and carrier handoff on the floor, then returns wall charts and a briefing your shift leads can actually stand in front of.
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Inbound delay mapping
We sit with goods-in for a run of receipt days and chart where supplier windows, dock congestion, and put-away queues actually eat the clock.
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Peak cut-off calendar
A dated calendar of last-order, last-pick, and last-despatch times for Christmas, Easter, and bank-holiday weeks, drawn from your own labour and carrier booking windows.
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Pick-path observation day
One full shift walking with pickers, noting travel, congestion at fast movers, and the paper or radio steps that slow a line without anyone writing it down.
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Exception board commission
A printed wall board for the warehouse office showing today’s late lines, short picks, and carrier misses in a layout your team already uses on paper.
A three-week fulfilment visibility study
The flagship engagement is for depots that already keep exception lists on clipboards and still argue about where the day is lost. Rowan walks the floor. Amelia draws the boards. You get a briefing in the warehouse office, not a slide deck mailed from elsewhere.
Included: inbound observation, a pick-path walk, a cut-off sketch for the next named peak, and one printed exception board. Excluded: carrier contract negotiation and any change to your warehouse management product.
From people who stood on the dock with us
These notes name a real pause, a moved pallet, or a calendar that sales and warehouse finally shared. They are not scores.
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They spent two mornings on our inbound dock and came back with a wall strip that named the pauses our checkers already muttered about. The Friday slip is still there, which they said in the briefing rather than smoothing over.
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I expected a thick report. What I got was a pick-face plan with six call-outs and a conversation with two pickers I should have had myself. We moved one pallet of cement that had been blocking the travel lane for weeks.
Bring last month’s late list
We reply within two working days. If a visit is the right next step, we will say so; if a single observation day is enough, we will say that too.
Write to the Pubil office