Clarus WMS gives finance teams real-time, trusted warehouse data without turning you into a systems expert.
You get one version of the truth on stock, costs, and performance so you can control the numbers, not chase them.
Finance teams shouldn’t be cleaning up warehouse mistakes after they’ve already hit the P&L. Write-offs, margin dips, and those “one-off” logistics costs that keep coming back you catch them too late.
With the right WMS, you flip that. You see issues early, with the detail to challenge them and fix them fast.
Clarus gives you financial-grade visibility of stock, movements, and costs in one place. You get real-time inventory value by site, channel, or customer, and you can explain the numbers in a way the board gets.
The warehouse stops being a risk on the balance sheet and becomes a lever you actively manage.
See stock value as it actually is, not as it was at last stock take. Clarus tracks every movement with cost context: receipts, adjustments and picks. That means fewer manual journals at month-end and a much cleaner audit trail.
Stop guessing at margin. Clarus lets you attribute freight, duty, surcharges, and handling to the products and orders that actually drive them. Finance gets clearer margin analysis and a robust basis for pricing, discounting, and service-level conversations.
Every stock move is logged: who did it, when, from where, to where, and why. That gives you a complete, searchable transaction history that stands up to internal and external audit. Instead of chasing paper and spreadsheets, you pull one report and drill into the detail.
Clarus highlights what is going wrong, not just what has happened. Finance focus on exceptions that hurt margin and cash, instead of trawling through hundreds of “normal” lines. Decisions are faster, and conversations with operations are based on data, not opinion.
Plaspac’s finance team felt the difference straight away. Pallet storage charging is usually a headache (ins, outs, weekend balances, rates, minimums). Clarus handles it all automatically. Every delivery, movement, and remaining pallet is tracked in the background, so billing is accurate and fast. No more “working the numbers out” by hand, and no more under- or over-charging.
Customers get the same clarity. They log in and see their stock in real time no chasing emails, no waiting for someone to “check the warehouse”.
In most projects, the WMS integrates with your ERP through standard interfaces for products, suppliers, customers, orders, receipts, and inventory balances. The key is to agree which system is the master for each type of data and how often updates flow. Clarus typically sends back inventory movements and status changes in real time or near real time, so finance sees a current picture rather than overnight batches. The exact integration method and data fields depend on your ERP and IT standards, so any architectural diagrams, middleware choices, and message formats would be defined in a joint design phase and may involve vendor-specific assumptions.
Change lands better when finance is not just “approving the spend” but clearly sponsoring the outcomes. In practice, that means defining a short, sharp list of non-negotiables: stock accuracy, cut-off rules, and reporting deadlines. Clarus projects usually involve joint workshops with warehouse supervisors and finance to agree processes, scanning steps, and exception handling. Training focuses on how each role benefits: fewer disputes for finance, less blame and clearer rules for operations. Internal communication, ownership of KPIs, and ongoing review cadences are just as important as configuration. Because every organisation is different, the exact change plan and governance model are shaped around your culture and existing ways of working.
Finance users do not need to learn every operational screen. Training instead focuses on dashboards, key reports, and how cut-off and stock adjustment processes work in the WMS. Typical activities include a walkthrough of core flows, hands-on sessions using real or representative data, and clear documentation of how inventory in the WMS maps to ERP balances. Go-live for the warehouse itself may run over several weeks, but finance involvement is concentrated around stock cut-off, opening balances, and first month-end. Timelines vary widely by scope and complexity; as a very rough estimate, many mid-market projects run over a few months from design to go-live, with staged rollouts by site or channel.
Most of the return comes from fewer errors, cleaner stock, and better use of cash. Typical benefit drivers include lower write-offs, reduced safety stock, fewer urgent shipments, and less manual reconciliation effort in finance. A WMS that exposes true cost-to-serve can also support smarter pricing and customer decisions, which improves margin beyond pure operational savings. Many organisations start to see clear, measurable benefits within the first 6–12 months as accuracy improves and behaviours change, but payback depends on your starting position, scale, and discipline in using the data. Any ROI model should be treated as an estimate until you have your own baseline data and agreed success measures.
Modern WMS platforms like Clarus run on standard browser-based interfaces and handheld devices such as rugged scanners or tablets. That means finance is not locked into exotic hardware or single-site thinking. Multi-site rollouts are handled through configuration: each warehouse can have its own processes, locations, and cut-off rules while still feeding a consolidated financial view. You can report inventory and performance by site, region, or business unit. The exact device mix, network design, and site-by-site rollout plan will depend on your IT policies, security standards, and physical environments, so we treat those as design assumptions to be validated early in the project.
Data migration normally involves cleaning and loading key masters (SKUs, locations, partners) plus an opening stock position per location. Historical transactions are usually left in legacy systems, with the WMS becoming the single source of truth from cut-over onwards. Security is handled through role-based access and audit trails, aligned with your internal controls and compliance requirements, though specific standards (for example ISO or sector regulations) need confirming. Clarus is built to handle complex operations but can be configured in a lean way for simpler sites, so you are not forced into unnecessary features. Indicative timelines and costs are always estimates until scoped; they depend heavily on site count, integration landscape, and how aggressively you want to change processes.
