Every item accounted for. Every movement on record.

Government depots, loan stores and high-security warehouses run on Thomax .wms, with two-person approval on controlled items, custody by serial and an audit trail an auditor can read.

In use across a state government department’s network of depots and loan stores. Best practice live in weeks. Legacy systems take years.

A padlock on a steel door
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 government network runs on .wms.

  1. One stock position across every depot and store, with each site’s staff limited to their own.
  2. Two named people approve a controlled item before it leaves, and both approvals stay on the record.
  3. Equipment issued to staff and sites by serial, with return dates and an issue register on demand.
  4. Contract and purchase order numbers carried on the item, so procurement and stock reconcile.
  5. Sign-in through your own identity provider. Accounts follow your directory. Leavers lose access the same day.
  6. A full audit trail on every receipt, move, pick, issue and adjustment, attributed to a named user.

Two people release it. Both stay on the record.

Controlled items cannot leave stock on one person’s say-so. The item carries a rule that demands a second approver, the release does not happen until both are recorded, and the approval sits on the movement with the user, time and reason. When the auditor asks who authorized the release of a controlled item eighteen months ago, the answer is a query, not a project. The same record carries the contract or purchase order number, so stock and procurement reconcile without a spreadsheet.

In daily use across a state government department’s network of depots and loan stores in Australia.

Aisle of pallet racking in a depot

Custody by serial, from issue to return.

Government stock is issued to people and sites and comes back. .wms captures the serial at receipt, on issue and on return, refuses a duplicate at the scan, and keeps the loan history for the life of the item: who has held it, from when, and whether it came back. Portable and attractive items, radios, laptops, tablets, tools and protective equipment, stop being a stocktake variance and become an issue register you can hand over.

Serialized equipment programs for government agencies run on .wms across Australia and New Zealand.

Handheld pick screen: the scanned product and count, Confirm Pick, the lines picked with total weight, and the lines left to pick with their bins
Handheld pick, .wms

Ready at every depot when the season turns.

Depots exist so that equipment is there, counted and serviceable when the incident arrives. .wms gives the state one live stock position across the network, counts every site on a cycle instead of a once-a-year shutdown, and moves stock between depots as a dispatch at one end and a receipt at the other. Regional staff work their own site on a handheld that needs a morning of training, which matters when the workforce doubles for the season.

Best practice live in weeks, inside one budget cycle. Legacy systems take years.

Your identity provider signs them in. Every action is theirs.

Users sign in through your directory with single sign-on, accounts are created and removed as your directory changes, and two-factor sign-in with restricted network access is enforced where you choose. Every receipt, move, pick, issue, adjustment and configuration change is logged with the user, the time and the before and after. Hosted in your region, with clusters in Australia, New Zealand, the UK, Europe and North America, 99.99% uptime over the last 12 months, and 24/7 support on the service level you choose.

Tobacco, alcohol, electronics. Handled to the risk.

For 3PLs and distributors holding attractive stock, a high-value or high-risk flag on the item changes how it is stored, picked and packed without a supervisor remembering. Excise-grade stock is picked into sealed totes inside caged zones with the seal on record, bonded and duty-paid stock stay apart by status, and every touch is attributed to a named person. Shrinkage becomes a report with a name on it.

Controlled stock behind a machine, every retrieval on record.

Vertical lift modules, carousels and secured AS/RS zones keep controlled and attractive items behind a machine that opens only on an approved order. Items that need two approvals are not released until both are recorded, and every retrieval carries the serial, the user and the time into the custody history. Thomax builds the white-box control layer and integrates vendor systems, so the audit trail is one record from the shelf to the dock.

Government and high security on .wms.

Government agencies in Australia run depots and loan stores on .wms. Agencies and their contractors in North America get the same controls on USA and Canada hosting.

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    A state government department

    A state government department running depots and loan stores on one WMS, with two approvals on controlled items and loan history by serial.

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Government services and secure operations on .wms

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Bring your network and your last audit finding.

We will show you the two-person release, the issue register and the audit trail on your sites and your item types, and what live in weeks looks like for a network like yours. Many Thomax projects pay back in under 12 months.

Pricing that flexes with your operation: scale up for the season, scale back after it, and pay for the operation you actually run.