PRH Consulting works with industrial, consumer, and food distributors running Sage X3 for receiving, picking, packing, shipping, replenishment, and EDI. Our distribution work usually starts with one question: is inventory accurate? Until the answer is yes, nothing else can be trusted.

Our team has rebuilt warehouse processes, cleaned up reservation and allocation logic, integrated with WMS and 3PL providers, and stood up EDI for dozens of trading partners.

Common challenges

Inventory accuracy below 95%

Once accuracy drops below 95%, customer-facing availability and planning both fall apart. The fix is process plus cycle counting plus configuration — never just one.

Slow picking and shipping cutoffs missed

Picking strategy, wave planning, and screen design directly drive throughput. Most distributors leave significant capacity on the table here.

Replenishment that overstocks A items and stocks out C items

Reorder points, min/max, DRP, and ABC analysis need to be designed together, not bolted on one at a time.

EDI and 3PL integration brittleness

Broken 850s, missed ASNs, and 3PL inventory mismatches are usually integration-architecture problems, not data problems.

Sage X3 considerations

Warehouse and location model

Sites, warehouses, zones, locations, and storage rules should be designed to match physical operations — not the reverse.

Lot and serial control

For traceable products, the lot/serial model needs to be designed before transactions start.

Pick path and wave strategy

Pick paths, wave planning, and confirmation methods all impact throughput and accuracy.

Trading-partner footprint

EDI partner counts and document mix drive whether direct integration or a managed VAN/provider is the right choice.

How PRH helps

Inventory accuracy program
Cycle count plans, root cause analysis, and process redesign that get accuracy above 98% and keep it there.
Warehouse and picking redesign
Site, zone, location, and pick strategy redesign tied to measurable throughput improvements.
Replenishment policy build
ABC analysis, DRP, reorder policies, and supplier lead-time discipline that level out service and stock turns.
EDI and 3PL integration
EDI build and stabilization, 3PL integration, and the observability to know when something breaks.