Keeping warehouse operations running offline with Power Apps

A US snack food manufacturer and distributor with a portfolio of packaged brands, supplying retailers through a network of warehouses and direct store delivery routes. Local warehouse teams handled stock movements, counts and route replenishment, often with unreliable connectivity.

Connectivity interruptions prevented the existing warehouse app from completing transactions. Limited batch tracking also made it difficult to identify expiring products and manage write-offs.

• Enabled batch tracking at participating warehouses to trace stock as it arrived, moved and left.
• Extended the existing Power Apps solution to cache the warehouse data needed on each device so users could perform supported transactions offline.
• Covered receiving against purchase and transfer orders, stock and bin checkout, spot and period-end counts, and inventory adjustments.

• Warehouse teams could continue supported transactions when connectivity dropped.
• Teams could trace batches through warehouse movements and had better visibility to manage expiry and address potential write-offs.