Generic WMS counts boxes. Your inventory is a 1,000-foot reel that gets 347 feet cut at 8:42 AM, leaving 653 feet of lot MC-2024-0891 available for the next order. Bolt tracks that. No spreadsheets. No manual adjustments. No fifteen-year-old desktop software.
One transaction. Three records. Bolt creates the remainder automatically, with the same lot identity, the same receipt date, and the same warehouse location. It's on the next pick list within seconds.
Bolt is a warehouse management system for distributors who sell by linear measurement.
It handles receiving, cut-to-order fulfillment, quality inspection, picking, packing, and LTL shipping for goods measured in feet, yards, or meters — with full lot traceability through every subdivision and bidirectional Acumatica sync with no middleware.
It's in production at Heritage Fabrics, it's on the Acumatica Marketplace, and it's built by Studio B — the same team that runs Heritage. Same software. Same builders. Same warehouse.
Reel R-4471 has 653 feet remaining from a cut this morning. Reel R-4472 has 1,000 feet, untouched. Reel R-4478 is on quality hold. Your WMS treats them as three equivalent units of inventory. They aren't.
Your team knows. The supervisor knows which reels are partial. The shipping clerk knows which lots go together. The customer service agent knows to call Mike on the floor before promising a date.
That knowledge walks out the door at 5pm, into retirement at 65, and with turnover every eighteen months.
Master reel. Lot. Cut. Remainder. Hold. Same lot identity through every transaction, on every device, for every user.
A cut-to-order transaction takes 347 ft from R-4471 and Bolt automatically creates a 653 ft remainder with the same lot identity, the same receipt date, the same warehouse location. It's on the next pick list within seconds.
The tribal knowledge doesn't walk out at 5pm. Your team supervises. Bolt remembers.
Subdivide master units. Bolt tracks the remainder automatically — same lot, updated footage, ready for the next order. No manual adjustments, no spreadsheet reconciliation.
Every foot carries its identity: manufacturing lot, dye lot, heat number, production run. Trace from receiving through every cut and shipment in seconds, not hours.
Visual defect taxonomy — jacket damage, shade variance, braid exposure. Photo capture, pass/fail/quarantine disposition, vendor scorecards that track who sends you problems.
Twelve screens covering receiving, putaway, picking, packing, inspection, and cycle counting. Keyence barcode scanners. Works in warehouses with dead spots. English and Spanish.
Eight LTL carriers with real-time rate shopping, freight class calculation, and BOL generation. ShipEngine for parcel. All on the same screen as the shipment confirmation.
Multi-reason returns with disposition: rework, return to vendor, scrap, downgrade. Track why products come back and which vendors are responsible.
ABC inventory classification. Vendor lead time learning from actual delivery dates. Seasonal forecasting and safety stock optimization. Reorder signals weeks before stockout.
Bidirectional REST API. Customers, inventory, orders, shipments, POs. Custom DAC fields via CI/CD. No middleware. No iPaaS. No manual re-entry.
Reels, spools, partial reels. UL/CSA lot traceability. Copper commodity lead times that move weekly.
Rolls, remnants, dye-lot matching. Identical operational vocabulary to textiles — because the operations are identical.
Coils, assemblies, pressure-test records. NAHAD safety traceability. Cut-crimp-test fabrication workflows.
Master rolls, slitting, sheeting. Mill lot identity through subdivision. Long lead times on mill orders.
Rolls, cores, resin-lot traceability. FDA food-contact compliance. Automotive wrap film (22% CAGR).
A standard WMS decrements inventory by integer units. Cut 347 feet from a 1,000-foot reel and it either (a) decrements the reel count by 1 and demands a manual adjustment for the 653-foot remainder, or (b) asks you to pre-split reels at receiving, guessing at future cuts. Neither works.
Bolt creates the remainder as a first-class inventory record with the same lot identity — automatically, at cut time.
Most WMS products track lot identity on the master unit. Subdivide it and the link breaks — or you pay for a "reel genealogy" bolt-on that requires manual cross-reference at every split.
Bolt preserves lot identity through every subdivision without a separate module. Dye-lot matching during allocation is automatic, not a step the picker has to remember.
A standard WMS assumes parcel. LTL rate shopping happens in a separate carrier portal, a separate browser tab, a separate software package. Freight class requires a side trip to NMFC codes. BOLs get generated in yet another system.
Bolt integrates eight LTL carriers directly into pick-pack. Rate shopping, freight class, BOL — one screen, one workflow.
If you sell private-label into enterprise accounts — Home Depot stocking your branded wire, a GC stocking your branded carpet — they want an API. They want to check stock, place orders, and reconcile receipts programmatically from their own systems. Nobody in procurement is logging into a vendor portal at 2 AM.
The Customer Stock API exposes each customer's private-label SKUs through a scoped, keyed endpoint. Ten million requests per month per tenant, included. Metered at $0.50 / 1 000 requests on overage — cheap at the base, predictable at the edge, no surprise bills.
{
"customer": "homedepot",
"sku": "HD-WIRE-10AWG-THHN",
"available_ft": 9854,
"on_order_ft": 12000,
"lots": [
{ "lot": "MC-2024-0891", "ft": 653 },
{ "lot": "MC-2024-0892", "ft": 1000 },
{ "lot": "MC-2024-0897", "ft": 8201 }
],
"warehouse": "DALLAS-01",
"updated_at": "2026-04-16T14:42:17Z"
}
We tracked partial reels with sticky notes for fifteen years. The Sunday afternoon allocation session is gone.
Heritage Fabrics · Textile distribution · Running Bolt in production since late 2025
Thirty minutes. No slides. We'll load a demo environment with your products, your measurement units, and your typical order patterns. You ask questions. We show the product. If it's a fit, we talk about onboarding. If it's not, we tell you.