Apparel warehouse management software built for fashion operations
From pick sheet to mobile scan. The warehouse your office can actually trust.
Run receiving, putaway, picking, packing, and shipping inside one connected system, with a mobile app, barcode scanning, and real-time inventory.
Trusted by modern apparel brands that can't afford disconnected operations
TL;DR
- ✓Full WMS — receiving, picking, packing, shipping, returns, transfers — in one system.
- ✓Mobile app runs on iOS and Android phones and tablets. No specialized hardware.
- ✓Connected to live orders and inventory so the floor and the office work from the same reality.
47 minutes
How out-of-date a paper pick sheet is by the time it hits the floor during peak
Peak season. Orders are landing continuously. The pick sheet was printed at the top of the hour. Forty-seven minutes later, the picker is still working from it, while five of those orders have been canceled and three more have come in.
Every minute of lag is accuracy leaking. Paper is the slowest form of system integration anyone's ever invented.
Drop day. Same-day shipping promise. The floor is on paper.
Orders start landing at 9am. By 11, you have 300. The pick sheet reflects what you knew at 10. Half a dozen orders have been canceled since. Two have been edited. The picker is halfway through an order whose customer already requested changes.
The line at the pack station is starting to back up because two carts came through with the wrong size run — the order had a prepack the picker resolved by hand, incorrectly. Your shipping lead is reprinting labels for an order that was supposed to be a split shipment but came down as one. Two retailers are expecting ASNs by 4pm; nobody on the floor knows that.
By the time the discrepancy surfaces at ship scan, the picker has walked two miles. That time is gone. Your same-day promise is three minutes closer to broken. Multiply by every drop, every retailer expecting EDI compliance, every cancelation that didn't make it to the pick sheet.
Connected warehouse execution isn't a nice-to-have at scale. It's the only way same-day actually works.
The warehouse is where small disconnects become expensive
A pick sheet is a guess about a moment that already happened. Every minute between the office system and the warehouse floor is a window where accuracy leaks. Apparel makes this worse — size breaks, color matrices, prepacks, retailer-specific packing rules mean the real work isn't just picking items, it's picking the right variants in the right configuration against the right retailer's compliance spec.
Do that from paper, with scanners that aren't connected to order data, and the cost shows up as chargebacks, short shipments, returned pallets, and a peak season that turns into a crisis.
Uphance closes the gap between the office and the floor. The Uphance Warehouse Mobile App puts receiving, putaway, picking, packing, and shipping into one mobile workflow, with barcode scanning tied directly to live orders and inventory.
What does Uphance warehouse management do?
Receiving and putaway
Scan incoming stock against POs. Put away to the right bins. Inventory updates from moment of arrival.
Picking and packing
Mobile workflows with priority rules, prepack handling, and step-by-step guidance.
Barcode scanning and mobile execution
iOS and Android, phones or tablets. BYOD-friendly. No specialized hardware required.
Shipping and documents
Labels, packing slips, warehouse docs generated as part of the flow.
Stock transfers and returns
Move stock between locations. Process returns without losing visibility.
3PL coordination
Direct integration with major 3PLs. File-based and EDI for everyone else.
On the floor: the Uphance Warehouse Mobile App
Warehouse teams don't work from desks. The Uphance Warehouse Mobile App brings the same operational system your office and leadership teams rely on directly to the floor, so every scan, pick, receive, and move updates one shared reality.
Runs on standard iOS and Android phones and tablets. No specialized hardware.
What the app handles
- ✓Picking, packing, and shipping with step-by-step guidance
- ✓Receiving and check-in against purchase orders
- ✓Bin transfers and stocktakes
- ✓Return processing at the point of handling
- ✓Multi-warehouse switching inside the same app
- ✓Bring-your-own-device, iOS and Android phones and tablets
Enterprise WMS is overkill. Paper is incompetent. There's a middle.
Manhattan, Körber, and SAP EWM are built for very high throughput — tens of thousands of orders per day, deep slotting optimization, labor management, complex multi-site coordination. They cost six figures, take months to stand up, and require full-time operations teams to run.
Paper pick sheets and disconnected scanners are the opposite problem. Cheap, but accuracy leaks constantly and peak season becomes a crisis.
Uphance WMS is the middle: apparel-native warehouse workflows that 95% of growing brands need, at economics that work for growing brands, with a mobile app your team can actually use on day one.
Your options
| Feature | Enterprise WMS | Paper / disconnected | Uphance WMS |
|---|---|---|---|
| Real-time sync with orders | ✓ | No | ✓ |
| Barcode scanning | ✓ | No | ✓ |
| Mobile app | ✓ (often proprietary hardware) | No | ✓ (iOS/Android, BYOD) |
| Apparel-native workflows (size runs, prepacks) | Requires customization | No | ✓ |
| Returns and transfers | ✓ | Manual | ✓ |
| 3PL coordination | ✓ | Painful | ✓ |
| Retailer EDI / GS1-128 labels | Via integration | No | ✓ Native |
| Throughput target | Enterprise (10,000+ orders/day) | <50 orders/day | 50–5,000 orders/day |
| Annual cost | $100K+ license + implementation | Hidden in errors and headcount | Part of Uphance |
| Time to value | Months | None | Weeks |
| Specialized hardware | Often required | None | Not required |
What results do Uphance customers see?
“Same-day shipping before 2PM only works when the warehouse runs on dependable, scan-driven workflows. Uphance helped us ship faster with fewer errors, and the returns workflow has been a game changer.”
What Magnolia Pearl runs on Uphance
| Workflow | How it works |
|---|---|
| Picking accuracy | ✓ Scan-confirmed, tied to live orders |
| Same-day ship before 2PM | ✓ Automatic UPS label printing |
| Collection box returns | ✓ Native returns workflow tied to orders |
| Multi-warehouse coordination | ✓ Owned US warehouse + global 3PLs |
Who is this built for, and who is it not for?
Uphance probably isn't for you if…
- ✗You're running 10,000+ orders per day and need enterprise WMS throughput.
- ✗Your warehouse is tiny (under 50 orders/day) and paper works.
- ✗You need deep slotting, labor management, and wave planning at enterprise scale.
Uphance is built for you if…
- ✓You're running 50 to 5,000 orders/day across one or more warehouses.
- ✓You coordinate with a 3PL or are adding one.
- ✓You've outgrown paper pick sheets and want barcode accuracy.
- ✓Peak season is a crisis because floor and office aren't in sync.
- ✓You want mobile workflows without buying proprietary hardware.
What does a Uphance demo look like?
45 minutes, prepped around your warehouse:
- 1Your warehouse model, mapped. Locations, 3PL mix, volume, devices in use.
- 2The mobile app, in action. Pick, pack, ship with scan, on a tablet you can actually hold.
- 3Receiving against a PO. Watch incoming stock become live inventory in seconds.
- 4A 3PL or multi-warehouse scenario. How stock stays in sync across locations.
- 5Integration scope. Shipping carriers, EDI, channels, 3PL partners.
Key capabilities
How does Uphance implementation work?
Discovery
Warehouse, 3PLs, volume, device environment, priorities mapped.
Tailored demo
Warehouse workflows rebuilt in Uphance.
Configuration
Workflows set up per location, including packing and shipping rules.
Mobile rollout
App installed on team devices. Training runs against real orders.
Go-live + hypercare
Launch with support through the first full volume cycle.
Frequently asked questions
What does Uphance integrate with?
| 3PL | ACR · Bergen Logistics · Microlistics · Mintsoft · Torque · NRI |
| Shipping | ShipStation · Zonos |
| EDI | EzCom · Rithum / DSCO (for carton labels, ASN, retailer compliance) |
| eCommerce | Shopify · Shopify Plus (for DTC fulfillment sync) |
Ready to see the floor connected?
Start with a brief discovery conversation. We'll learn how your warehouse runs today, assess fit, and prepare a demo around your locations, volume, partners, and priorities.