Free decision tools

What are you trying to decide?

Straight answers on warehouse systems, labels, label printers and the cost of mis-picks. Free, on screen, before you talk to anyone.

Tailor this page to your operation

  • Your answer on screen
  • Nothing sent until you ask
  • A person when you want one
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Not sure? Where are you in the decision?

See what you get

Try a small version of each tool, right here

Every tool shows its answer on the page. These run on the same logic as the full tools.

Solution advisor

Find the right WMS

Answers: Which warehouse management system fits your operation?

You give it

  • What your operation does
  • How big it is
  • What is breaking first
  • Where you are in the decision

You get

One recommendation, the reason it fits, and what would change it.

What does your operation do?

Your fit

ProVision 3PL Extended

Continue in the full advisor

A short version: the full advisor also asks about size and where you are in the decision.

Label spec matcher

Match a label to your surface

Answers: Which label construction survives your surface?

You give it

  • Where the label lives
  • What it sticks to
  • How it is printed

You get

A full construction and a spec reference you can send to a label engineer.

Match my label3 questions
Where does the label spend its life?
What is it sticking to?

Suggested construction

Facestock
Adhesive
Finish
Imaging

Add how it is printed, then send it to an engineer

Printing is set to thermal transfer here; the full matcher asks.

ROI calculator

Put a number on mis-picks

Answers: What do mis-picks cost your warehouse each year?

You give it

  • Order lines a day
  • Pickers on shift
  • Hourly rate
  • Days a week
  • Error rate
  • Cost to fix one

You get

A yearly estimate, split into the three places the money goes.

Your warehouse could recover

$160,701

A year, before implementation. Rough estimate.

Mis-picks avoided$97,344
Picking time recovered$51,917
Cycle counting reduced$11,440
Use all six of your numbers

Other inputs held at the calculator's starting values: 1,200 lines a day, $26 an hour, 5 days, $65 per wrong pick.

Printer advisor

Find the right label printer

Answers: Which label printer fits the job?

You give it

  • Which kind of printer
  • How much you print
  • The operating environment
  • Label width and material

You get

The 47 printers we carry, narrowed and ranked against your job.

Printers still in scope

47

Every answer narrows the list. An answer that would leave no printer that can do the job is greyed out, so you never reach a dead end.

Some of the questions it asks

  • Which kind of printer?
  • How much do you print?
  • What is the operating environment?
Rank the printers for your job

A picture, not a live version: the advisor runs on the label printers page, where the full range lives.

Why the answers hold up

Straight answers, with the reasons shown

  • Your answer, on screen

    No form stands between you and the result. Contact is offered after the answer, never before it.

  • The reasons, not just the result

    Each tool says why it chose what it chose and what would change the answer, so you can check it against your floor.

  • Nothing sent until you ask

    The tools run in your browser. Your answers only reach us if you choose to send them.

50
years in Canadian barcode, labelling and warehouse technology
8
locations across Canada, plus the Toronto head office
47
label printers from Zebra, Brady, Epson and Canon in the printer advisor

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