Solutions / For Fulfillment Centers
Built for fulfillment center ops teams running sortation
Not a carrier platform. Not a WMS replacement. Sortwyre is the throughput layer for FCs running cross-belt, shoe, or sliding-shoe sorters at 8,000–25,000 PPH.
FC ops context
What mid-size FC sortation looks like
Mid-size fulfillment centers typically run 40–120 chutes, 4–12 induction lanes, and process between 8,000 and 25,000 pieces per hour. At this throughput range, the gap between what the WES HMI shows and what's actually happening on the sort floor is where throughput is lost.
Cross-belt, shoe, sliding-shoe sorters
Sortwyre works with the sorter types common in mid-size FCs. Ingest from WES via OPC UA or MQTT regardless of sorter hardware vendor.
40–120 chute configurations
Chute grid dashboard scales to your facility layout. Configurable chute groups for zone-based alerting and pull team dispatch routing.
WMS/WES integration in under 6 weeks
Connect to your existing SAP EWM, Manhattan Active, or Blue Yonder WMS and Honeywell, Dematic, or 6RS WES. Pilot scoped, then production in a single sort zone.
No OT network exposure
Read-only OPC UA / MQTT tap. No write commands to PLC. Deployed as on-prem agent with no public inbound ports to your OT network segment.
Where Sortwyre fits
The sortation intelligence layer in your FC
Sortwyre sits above the WES control plane and below the WMS reporting layer. It reads from both — and surfaces the real-time view your ops team needs to act before throughput drops.
FC ops teams running Sortwyre
From in-house FC ops
We were running 11,200 PPH on a 60-chute cross-belt. Sortwyre surfaced that two induction lanes were feeding below target during the 7 AM surge. We fixed the imbalance in the same shift — throughput went to 13,100.
Chute dwell time was something we tracked quarterly on spreadsheets. Sortwyre made it visible in real time. Our no-read feedback loop cut mis-sorts from 0.8% to 0.3% over 8 weeks.
Run a throughput pilot in your FC
Sortwyre connects to your WMS/WES in under 6 weeks. No hardware installation, no conveyor downtime. Start with one sort zone.