Nothing ships out of date. Nothing goes unbilled.
Chilled, frozen and catchweight operations for cold-store 3PLs and food processors. Every pallet picked inside the date window your customers demand, every kilogram and pallet-day invoiced, and fewer people working in the cold.
Best practice live in weeks. Legacy systems take years.
- Units shipped annually on .wms
- 5 billion+
- Countries with Thomax-powered operations
- 30
- Businesses powered by Thomax
- 1,500+
- Uptime, last 12 months
- 99.99%
What a cold store runs on .wms.
- Picking by expiry, best-before or batch, inside the remaining life each customer contracts for.
- Catchweight from the dock to the invoice: counted in cartons, weighed in kilograms, charged as shipped.
- Storage, handling, blast freezing, tempering, labelling and rework billed from the work that happened.
- Chilled, frozen and tempering zones in one building, each pallet’s temperature captured at receipt.
- GS1-128 cartons and SSCC pallets scanned in and out, so receiving is a scan, not a keyboard.
- A recall hold on every pallet of a batch or date range in one step, with every movement on record.
- Pallet shuttle stores, lifts, conveyors and robotic palletising controlled from the same system.
- Customers’ ERPs, retailer EDI and chilled and frozen carriers connected through the Thomax integration hub.
Ship inside the window, every load.
Retailers reject short-dated product and the write-off lands on you. .wms picks by expiry, best-before or batch as standard, and each customer’s minimum remaining life sits on their orders, so a supermarket contract and a foodservice account draw different stock from the same freezer without a supervisor checking dates. When a batch is in question, hold every pallet of it, or every pallet in a date range, in one step from the screen or your ERP, and answer the recall with a report that lists every location and every delivery.
Expiry-driven picking and batch holds in daily use at cold stores, meat, dairy and seafood operators across Australia and New Zealand.
Invoice every kilogram and every pallet-day.
Cartons of meat, poultry, dairy and seafood carry their actual weight from receipt to invoice, so the customer pays for what shipped, not the nominal weight. For 3PLs, storage by pallet-day, handling in and out, blast freezing, tempering, labelling and rework raise their charges from the receipts, moves and picks that happened, and every client sees its own stock, jobs and charges in a portal under its own logo. A new client is onboarded in days: it inherits your warehouse defaults and you configure only the exceptions.
1,500+ businesses powered by Thomax. Many Thomax projects pay back in under 12 months.
Fewer people in the cold, more pallets an hour.
Every hour in the freezer costs you in wages, turnover and injury risk. .wms directs putaway, replenishment and picking so forklifts move loaded in both directions and doors open less, and its handheld apps are built for gloved hands and frosted screens. Chilled, frozen and tempering zones run as their own work areas in one building. Where a store is automated, a Thomax-built control system runs the pallet shuttles, lifts and conveyors in a live chiller and freezer store, switching to a redundancy mode when a lift or one side is down instead of stopping the shift.
A chiller and freezer pallet-shuttle store in Australia, directed by a WCS built and supported by Thomax; a three-site cold-store 3PL with a robotic depalletise and palletise line run from the same WMS.
Automation and WCS
Connected to your customers, running around the clock.
Your customers’ ERPs, retailer EDI, SSCC pallet labels and chilled and frozen carrier services connect through the Thomax integration hub, so a new customer’s orders and advance shipping notices flow on day one. Sites across a network run on one system with the same rules and reports, hosted in your region, with 99.99% uptime over the last 12 months and 24/7 global support on the service level you choose.
Shuttles, lifts and robotic lines, run from .wms.
A Thomax-built WCS directs the pallet shuttles, lifts and conveyors in a live chiller and freezer store, and .wms decides which pallet comes out by expiry, batch or catchweight. Robotic depalletise and palletise lines take their work from the same system, so mixed pallets are built by date without a hand on them, and vendor-controlled AS/RS and AMR fleets are integrated the same way.
Cold chain on .wms.
Cold-store 3PLs, meat, dairy, seafood and frozen-food operators run on .wms across Australia and New Zealand. Operators in the UK and Europe get the same date rules, catchweight and billing on UK and Germany hosting, with UK and EU carriers built in.
Evercold Cold Storage
Every client on its own rules, in the freezer.
About this operation: Evercold Cold StorageLaverton Cold Storage
Three cold stores and a robotic line, one system.
About this operation: Laverton Cold Storage
Food and beverage on .wms
Bring your date rules and your rate card.
We will receive your coldest, most dated stock, pick it inside its window, weigh it to the invoice and bill the pallet-day, and show where a shuttle store or robotic line would fit.