Wholesale & distribution · Burlington, Ontario

IT Services for Burlington Wholesale & Distribution Operations

Order fulfillment in a distribution business depends on wireless coverage across racking, barcode scanning that works on the first pass, and integrations that move data reliably between your WMS, ERP and trading partners. We design and support the infrastructure those functions sit on, and align backup and recovery targets to how quickly your order flow needs to resume.

What this covers

  • Warehouse Wi-Fi survey and coverage design for racking and steel structures
  • Barcode scanning, label printing and mobile device support
  • EDI connectivity and trading-partner SLA monitoring
  • WMS and ERP uptime, patching and integration support
  • RPO/RTO defined against order-processing continuity

01Warehouse connectivity

Wireless coverage engineered for the warehouse, not the office

Steel racking, high-bay storage and metal inventory absorb and reflect Wi-Fi signal in ways an open office never does. A network designed for a boardroom will not reliably scan a pallet at the back of aisle 40.

A proper warehouse deployment starts with a physical site survey that accounts for racking height, aisle width, dock door placement and RF-dense equipment such as conveyors and forklifts. Access point placement, channel planning and power settings are then tuned to eliminate dead zones at the scanner height staff actually work at, not just at head height in an open aisle.

Mobile computers, ring scanners and vehicle-mounted terminals depend on seamless roaming between access points as staff move through the facility. Poorly tuned roaming causes scanners to hold onto a weak signal instead of handing off, which shows up as intermittent scan failures that are difficult to diagnose without proper RF visibility.

Label and print infrastructure sits downstream of the same network. Print servers, thermal printers at pack stations, and label template management all depend on consistent connectivity and predictable driver support across the devices your pickers and packers use every shift.

We treat warehouse wireless as its own discipline, distinct from corporate office networking, and monitor access point health and client roaming behaviour continuously rather than only investigating after staff report a problem.

02Scope of support

What we manage for distribution operations

Coverage across the systems that determine whether an order ships on time.

  • Warehouse Wi-Fi survey, deployment and ongoing tuning
  • Handheld scanner, ring scanner and vehicle-mount terminal support
  • Thermal label printer configuration and driver management
  • EDI connection monitoring and trading-partner SLA tracking
  • WMS server and application patching
  • ERP integration monitoring between order, inventory and finance systems
  • Server, firewall and switch infrastructure at the distribution centre
  • Backup and recovery scoped to order-processing systems
  • Multi-site connectivity between warehouse and office locations
  • Vendor liaison with WMS, ERP and EDI providers
  • Asset lifecycle management for scanning and mobile hardware
  • Access control aligned to warehouse shift patterns

03Continuity planning

Recovery targets tied to order flow, not generic backup windows

A distribution business loses money the moment order processing stops, not the moment a server fails. Recovery objectives should reflect that.

01

RPO defined by order volume

Recovery point objective is set against how much order and inventory data your business can afford to re-enter, informed by NIST SP 800-34 contingency planning practices rather than a default backup schedule.

02

RTO defined by shipping cutoffs

Recovery time objective accounts for daily shipping cutoffs and carrier pickup windows, so a WMS outage has a recovery plan built around your actual operating cycle.

03

EDI dependency mapping

Trading-partner EDI connections are documented as dependencies in the recovery plan, since a restored WMS with a broken EDI link still stops orders flowing.

04

Tested restores

Backup integrity is verified through periodic restore testing rather than assumed from a successful backup job log, consistent with ISO/IEC 27001 Annex A operational resilience expectations.

05

Segmented recovery priority

WMS, ERP and EDI systems are prioritised for recovery ahead of lower-impact systems, so effort goes where order flow depends on it first.

06

Documented runbooks

Recovery procedures are written down and assigned owners, aligned to ITIL 4 incident management practice, so recovery does not depend on one person's memory during a disruption.

FAQCommon questions

Questions Burlington organizations ask

Can you survey and fix Wi-Fi in an existing warehouse without a full rebuild?

Usually yes. A site survey identifies where coverage and roaming problems actually originate, and in many cases repositioning or adding access points resolves the issue without replacing the underlying network. A full redesign is only recommended where the existing cabling or access point density cannot support the fix.

Do you support the WMS and ERP platforms we already use?

We manage the infrastructure your WMS and ERP run on, keep servers patched, and monitor integration health between systems. Where the platform vendor owns application-level configuration, we coordinate directly with them so issues are not left unresolved between providers.

What happens to EDI orders if our internet connection goes down?

We build resilient connectivity, including secondary internet paths where warranted, specifically because an EDI outage has a contractual SLA impact with trading partners. Failover options are scoped based on your actual EDI volume and partner requirements.

How is a distribution centre's backup different from a normal office backup?

Recovery point and recovery time objectives are set against order-processing continuity rather than a generic daily backup window. WMS, ERP and EDI dependencies are mapped and prioritised together, since restoring one without the others still leaves orders unable to ship.

NEXTRelated capabilities

Distribution infrastructure is one part of a managed environment

Warehouse networking, EDI reliability and backup planning perform best when supported by ongoing monitoring, patching and a responsive service desk.

Providing Two Decades of IT Experience

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