An item can read as fully complete on screen and still carry a case dimension smaller than the units inside it. The warehouse cannot cube it, slot it or pack it. Most teams find that out during go-live, when fixing it costs the most.
A warehouse system inherits its master data from the ERP. If the customer and item masters are wrong, go-live exposes every gap at once.
A required field is empty. The new system rejects the record at load, or takes it and then cannot run the process that needs it. An item with no case dimensions cannot be slotted. A customer with no valid ship-to cannot be shipped to.
The field is filled in and the value is wrong. A unit of measure conversion that does not reconcile. A case weight lower than the weight of the units inside it. These pass a visual check and fail in operation.
The same real customer or item exists more than once under slightly different names. Stock splits across two codes. Orders attach to the wrong record. Reporting double counts.
Completeness and correctness are different tests. Completeness tells you what is missing. Validation tells you what is wrong. You need both before go-live, which is why every tool in the kit scores two things rather than one.
Most businesses running a first WMS project sit at level 1 or 2. A migration needs to clear level 4 before cutover, then reach level 5 to hold it.
Data lives in spreadsheets, email and individual memory. No standard for a complete record. No named owner.
People fix records when something breaks. No specification, so every fix is a one-off and the same problems return.
Mandatory fields, valid values and ownership are written and agreed. Nobody measures how far the real data sits from the standard.
Readiness shows as a number per object. Gaps are visible before they reach a live system. This is the level a migration needs to clear.
Standards are enforced when data is created. Named stewards own each object. New records meet the specification before they are saved.
Vendor neutral and ERP generic. It works for any ERP and feeds any warehouse system. Nothing in it reproduces a vendor's configuration.
Start here. Five minutes to a number.
Checks whether fields are present. Does not check whether they are correct.
Get it freeFor a project that has started.
Adds validation: pallet quantity reconciliation, weight and cube sanity, range limits, unit consistency. Catches data that is filled in but wrong.
Buy CoreFor a dated go-live.
The full set. Covers you from baseline assessment through to governance.
Buy CompleteWe profile your real extract, score both master objects, and give you the gap list and a phased remediation plan with owners and dates. Two weeks. Run by OptiChain Solutions.
Twenty rows is enough to see how it works. You get a completeness figure per item and a list of what is missing.
The LoadReady Item Tracker, an Excel workbook with three sheets. No macros, nothing to install.
We use your go-live date to decide whether to send you anything else. No date, no follow-up beyond the download.
Five fields. The download appears as soon as you submit.
Open the Read me sheet first, then replace the sample rows on Item Completeness with 20 of your own items.