When you operate a high-volume warehouse, your warehouse management system (WMS) is the operational backbone of your business. But what happens when the real-time decisions made on the warehouse floor can’t talk to the systems running your finance, workforce, and compliance in the back office?
Too often, the result is manual data reconciliation, delayed invoicing, siloed operations, and frustration for everyone from warehouse supervisors to finance directors.
To solve this challenge, we are thrilled to announce our partnership with OneAdvanced, a leading UK provider of AI-driven, sector-focused software. By uniting our cloud-native, agentic AI-driven WMS with OneAdvanced’s IQ Logistics platform, we are giving UK 3PLs, wholesalers, manufacturers, and e-commerce operators something that hasn’t been available natively anywhere else: a truly connected system of work with zero compromise between the warehouse and the back office.
The Core Challenge: Why Standalone Systems Hold Logistics Back
Recent research conducted by OneAdvanced in conjunction with the Road Haulage Association (RHA) confirms a painful reality for many supply chain operators: despite significant investments in technology, businesses struggle to achieve sustained operational impact.
Why? Because their tech stacks are built on fragmented systems, siloed data, and an accumulation of standalone point solutions.
In a traditional setup, the warehouse floor and the back office operate in different worlds. Your picking teams, packers, and goods-in staff might be moving at high velocity, but if that operational data has to be exported, formatted, and manually reconciled before it hits your ERP, payroll, or accounting software, you lose visibility and velocity.
- For 3PLs, disconnected systems mean billing leakage, delayed invoicing, and hours spent calculating storage and activity fees manually.
- For distributors and wholesalers, it means procurement and finance teams are making decisions based on yesterday’s data rather than real-time stock levels.
- For warehouse managers, it creates administrative friction that distracts from core operational efficiency.
We believe you shouldn’t have to choose between a best-of-breed WMS that solves real warehouse problems and an integrated ERP module that keeps the back office happy. You need both—and that is exactly what this partnership delivers.
How the Clarus & OneAdvanced Integration Works
This partnership extends IQ Logistics, OneAdvanced’s intelligent suite spanning finance, spend, governance, people, and workforce management, by embedding Clarus directly into its connected workflows.
Instead of treating the WMS as an isolated software silo, every action taken in Clarus flows natively into the wider business ecosystem:
- IQ Intelligent Platform provides the underlying data and integration layer. When a shipment is received, an order is picked, or a billable value-added service is completed in Clarus, that data routes immediately into IQ Logistics workflows without manual rework or batch delays.
- IQ Intelligent Experience ensures a single, consistent user experience. From warehouse floor operatives and shift supervisors all the way to compliance officers and finance directors, your team sees and acts on the same unified data.
- IQ Intelligent Services wraps the technology in proven implementation, governance, and continuous support, turning the integration into a resilient, everyday operating model.
Because these workflows sit on OneAdvanced’s single sovereign platform, all data exchanges remain strictly within your corporate guardrails and compliance policies. It is practical, secure, and governable AI applied at scale.
Why We Chose OneAdvanced: A Shared Commitment to Practical AI
At Clarus, our philosophy has always been centered around practical, trustworthy automation that cuts administrative time, eliminates errors, and improves stock accuracy. We wanted a business systems partner that shared our operational mindset and customer-first focus.
“We looked for a long time for a business systems partner that runs the way we do and puts customers first, and in OneAdvanced we found it,” says Dan Walsh, CEO at Clarus. “I have not seen anything like this offered natively anywhere else. If you are an enterprise that needs a best-of-breed WMS connected to the systems that run your business, that is exactly why you would choose us: no compromise, and nothing lost between the warehouse and the back office.”
Anwen Robinson, Senior Vice President at OneAdvanced, shares this vision for the industry:
“Logistics is a sector where the right technology, applied well, can deliver a significant impact on efficiency and resilience. Clarus shares our values and our commitment to practical, trustworthy AI. Partnering with them means we can rapidly bring even more value to the customers we already serve together, while helping the wider sector move forward with confidence.”
What This Partnership Means for Our Customers
We already serve a growing footprint of joint customers across the UK, and this partnership formalises our collaborative roadmap. Whether you are modernising legacy infrastructure or looking to scale complex, high-volume fulfilment, this connected ecosystem delivers immediate advantages:
- End-to-End Automated Billing & Accounting: For 3PLs, billable events captured in Clarus, from receiving and storage to picking and dispatch, flow directly into OneAdvanced finance workflows. Say goodbye to month-end billing spreadsheets and revenue leakage.
- Safe, Agentic AI Adoption: Leverage our AI assistant and automated decision-making engines on the warehouse floor with the confidence that all data is governed by OneAdvanced’s secure, sovereign infrastructure.
- Total Operational Visibility: Connect workforce management and payroll directly to warehouse throughput, giving you clear insights into labour costs per unit and operational efficiency across shifts.
- Supply Chain Resilience: Make data-driven decisions based on a single source of truth, removing the blind spots between warehouse stock control and corporate governance.
- A Future-Proofed Technology Stack: Access a cohesive, pre-integrated technology ecosystem built specifically for the demands of the UK logistics sector, an industry that powers £170 billion of the UK economy and employs over 8% of the workforce.
Ready to Connect Your Warehouse to Your Back Office?
You don’t have to compromise between operational warehouse power and back-office connectivity. Whether you are evaluating a switch from a legacy on-premise system, outgrowing a basic ERP warehouse module, or looking to scale your picking volumes without scaling your admin overhead, we are here to help.
Want to see how it works in practice?
Book a discovery call with our team to explore how our partnership with OneAdvanced can transform your supply chain operations.