IT for Logistics, Warehousing & Transport

In a transport company or a warehouse, IT is not a support function. It is part of production. When the wireless drops in aisle E, it is not one employee who is inconvenienced: order picking stops, and the delay shows up in the afternoon dispatch.

The problems we see most often

The Wi-Fi was designed for offices. The most common picture: coverage that worked when the warehouse was empty and stopped working once the racking filled up. Steel volume and cold rooms change signal propagation radically. That is why the site survey is done with the space in real operating conditions.

Everything on one network segment. Terminals, scanners, cameras, phones and office computers share one network, with no separation and no priority. The result is camera recording competing with the WMS for the same bandwidth.

The ERP gets blamed for everything. In most inventories we run, the instability attributed to the ERP originates in the network: marginal uncertified cabling, a switch with no PoE headroom, or a provider circuit with no backup.

One internet line, no redundancy. In a business that invoices and dispatches electronically, a line fault is an outage. The same applies to the phone system if no failover route has been defined.

Cameras that record but do not help. In a space with loading and unloading, resolution and retention days determine whether the footage answers a damage or loss question. They are usually decided casually, after the equipment has been bought.

What proper design means here

The services that apply

The usual scenario is a single project: structured cabling and business Wi-Fi for the space, a corporate network with VLAN separation, and cameras with access control on the same infrastructure.

From there, day to day operation is covered by an IT support agreement and preventive maintenance, so incidents are caught before they stop the flow.

For transport companies with shipping operations, the same logic extends to maritime IT: separation of operational and crew networks, multiple connectivity channels, and remote support while under way.

When it is worth calling us

The most economical moment is before the space is closed up: while ceilings are open and routes are accessible. The second best is the moment you are thinking of adding two more access points, because that is almost never the answer.