From a client conversation to a warehouse your customer can react to.
Warehouse Builder is 3D warehouse layout software your sales team uses during or after the meeting, so the customer sees the warehouse they described while the conversation is still warm.
What is Warehouse Builder? Warehouse Builder is warehouse layout software that is designed to create clarity through visualization. A salesperson with no CAD skills lays out a greenfield or brownfield site from real equipment, checks it fits and shows it in 2D, 3D, on a tablet or in a headset. Engineers open the same layout before detailed design. It's an installed desktop application.
Fewer hand-offs. A customer who reacts in the meeting.
With Warehouse Builder, the person who heard the customer builds it.
Same layout. Five ways to see it.
- 012D planLay it out in the editor
- 023D walkWalk it on screen
- 03RealisticOne button for a realistic look
- 04TabletOpen it on a tablet
- 05HeadsetWalk it in a headset
2D editor
3D view
Realistic view
On a tablet
Who uses Warehouse Builder?
Warehouse-solution sales teams
You probably sell layouts to buyers who can't read a technical drawing, so build the warehouse they just described, from equipment your engineers have signed off, and show it while the request is fresh.
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Material-handling equipment providers
Put your racks, trucks and load carriers into a library your sales team builds with, so a buyer sees your equipment standing in their own building before they order.
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Operators and logistics education
Walk a greenfield layout, or a change to a brownfield site, with the people who have to sign off on it before anything gets ordered. It's also taught at a university in Belgium, where logistics students learn warehouse design on it.
Read moreDifferent kind of site, or waiting for the browser version?
Warehouse Builder is an installed desktop application today. A browser version is on the roadmap, along with a presenter view your customer can follow from their own desk and automated storage and handling equipment in the library. None of those are in the product yet. Join the early-access list and we'll tell you when each one is ready, and what it would take for your kind of site.
How does Warehouse Builder work?
Lay out the warehouse
Pick the building's shape and mark out inbound, outbound and the zones in between. Start from a blank greenfield site, draw your existing brownfield building, or adapt a template.
Place real equipment
Racks, trucks, pallets, boxes and bins go straight into the zones, and the library keeps growing as your own equipment is added.
Check it fits
Every asset carries its real dimensions, so Warehouse Builder flags an aisle that's too narrow before your customer falls for the layout.
Sanity-check the flow
Enter fill rates, shifts, people per shift, trucks and inbound and outbound volumes for a quick read on whether the layout can handle the work, at pallet level.
Show it your way
Switch between the 2D plan and a 3D walk on screen, press one button for a realistic look, open it on a tablet or walk it in a headset.
Hand it to engineering
Your engineers open the same layout and see what the customer saw and asked for. Warehouse Builder exports a 3D model rather than a CAD file, so detailed design happens in their own tools.
Works alongside the CAD and 3D tools your engineers already use.
Warehouse Builder covers the stretch of the sale where the layout is still a conversation, and detailed design stays where it is today.
One person. One layout.
With Warehouse Builder there's no relay. The person who heard the customer builds the layout, and the customer sees it in that meeting or the next.
Talk to the Layout Desk
Tell us how your team gets to a first layout today. Then bring your own site, or one a customer described last week, and we'll show you how it comes together in Warehouse Builder.
Talk to the team →Your building, laid out in the demo.
If you have a floor plan or a blueprint, send it before the call. We'll set it up as the base, so the demo runs on your own site. If it's not a fit, that's fine.
Tell us who uses it. We'll come back with a figure.
Warehouse Builder is a subscription. The cost depends mostly on how many people use it and how much of your own equipment goes into the library. Fill in the form and we'll send a quote.
- One figure, scoped to your team and your equipment.
- No obligation. A quote, not a contract.
- Send a floor plan with the request if you have one, and we'll set it up as the base for your demo.
Warehouse Builder, CAD and digital twins: what each is for
Warehouse Builder is for agreeing on a layout early, CAD software is for engineering it in detail, and a digital twin is for running and improving a site once it's live.
| Warehouse Builder | CAD software | Digital twin | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Who uses it | Sales and business development teams, operations leads, logistics students | Engineers, designers and drafters | Operations and engineering teams at a running site |
| When in a project | Early, while the layout is still being discussed and agreed | Detailed design, through to construction and installation | After the site is running, usually connected to live operational data |
| Skills needed | No CAD skills. Knowing warehouses is enough. | Trained CAD users | Usually specialists to set up and maintain the data connections |
| What you get | A layout the team and customer can see in 2D and 3D, on a tablet or in a headset, plus a 3D model export | Precise drawings and models that the site is built from | A virtual model of the operating site, used to monitor it and test changes |
Warehouse Builder FAQ
What is Warehouse Builder?
Warehouse Builder is warehouse layout software that is designed to create clarity through visualization. A salesperson with no CAD skills lays out a greenfield or brownfield site from real equipment, checks it fits and shows it in 2D, 3D, on a tablet or in a headset. Engineers open the same layout before detailed design. It's an installed desktop application.
Who uses Warehouse Builder?
Sales and business development people at warehouse-solution providers, material-handling equipment makers and logistics operators. They usually know warehouses well without being CAD specialists, and they shouldn't have to be. It's also taught at a university in Belgium.
Does Warehouse Builder work for greenfield and brownfield projects?
Yes, for both. On a greenfield project you start from a blank site: pick the building's shape, mark out the zones and place equipment, or adapt a template. On a brownfield project you draw the existing building and its zones, then try a change, such as a new rack run or a different inbound area, and walk it with the customer before anyone moves a pallet.
Do I need CAD skills to use Warehouse Builder?
No. Warehouse Builder is made for salespeople and planners who know warehouses but aren't CAD specialists. You pick the building's shape, mark out the zones and place racks, trucks and pallets from a library, then switch to 3D to walk it. Your engineers keep their CAD tools for the detailed design that follows.
Can I walk through a warehouse layout in VR before it's built?
Yes. Save the layout, put on a headset and walk the warehouse before anything's ordered or built. You can also walk it in 3D on screen or open it on a tablet. The headset tends to matter most when the people signing off want to stand in the aisles themselves, rather than read a drawing.
What's the difference between Warehouse Builder, a WMS and a digital twin?
Warehouse Builder plans a layout before a site is built or changed. A WMS, or warehouse management system, runs daily operations in a working warehouse: stock, picking and orders. A digital twin is usually a live virtual copy of a site that's already running, fed by its own data. Warehouse Builder comes first of the three.
Does Warehouse Builder replace SketchUp or CAD?
No. It sits in front of them. Your sales team uses Warehouse Builder with the customer, early in the pursuit, and your engineers keep doing detailed design in SketchUp, AutoCAD or whatever they run today.
What does Warehouse Builder export?
A 3D model. It doesn't export a CAD file. Your engineers open the same layout in Warehouse Builder to see what the customer saw and asked for, then do the detailed design in their own tools.
Does Warehouse Builder run in a browser?
Not yet. It's an installed desktop application today, and a browser version is on the roadmap. When the customer isn't in the room, you share your screen and walk them through the layout.
How is Warehouse Builder priced?
A subscription, and we scope it with you. The cost depends mostly on how many people use it and how much of your own equipment goes into the library. Tell us those two things and we'll come back with a figure.