Solutions / Warehouse Management

Warehouse Visibility on a Decisioning Platform

Upstream is an inventory intelligence and decisioning platform. On the floor, it gives you item-level visibility and control where there was none. Every unit is identified, graded, and tracked from the dock door to its bin — so the death pile stops growing in the corner and the floor finally has a system of record.

Run Your Numbers in the Recovery Calculator Read the City Recyclers Story

The Problem

The floor has no record of its hardest inventory

A lot of warehouse stock never makes it into a system. Returns, overstock, damaged goods, and orphaned SKUs land in the corner and live on tribal knowledge and clipboards.

For a 3PL or a CPG brand running its own floor, that blind spot is expensive. You cannot bin what you cannot identify, so the death pile sits in aisles and stages instead of locations. Dwell time climbs, gaylords stack, and floor space you could be billing or selling from turns into dead storage. When a buyer or a client asks what you are holding, the honest answer is that nobody knows unit by unit. A conventional WMS assumes a clean barcode on every item, which is exactly what this inventory does not have.

19–21%

of shipments come back as returns — and only 48% resell at full price

$10–$65

cost per return, plus dwell-time carrying cost in an untracked gaylord

2–3x

slower throughput from manual inspection — which is why the pile grows faster than the team can clear it

How Upstream Solves It

Identification is the front door to visibility

The same framework that recovers value also creates the record — Identify, Triage, Route, Monetize. No barcode required.

Identify

A single scan recognizes each unit and creates a record, so unlabeled and orphaned freight enters the system instead of the corner.

Triage

Condition and grade are captured at intake, the same way on every shift, so the record carries value, not just a count.

Route

Each unit is assigned a location and a disposition, so the floor knows where it is and what it is for.

Monetize

Tracked, graded units clear toward their best path, so floor space frees and the death pile stops accumulating.

60–80%

Item-level disposition recovers 60% to 80% of MSRP once the floor can see each unit, against 20% to 30% for blind bulk liquidation.

Visibility for the Hardest Inventory.

WMS Where There Was None

Stand up item-level tracking on the inventory a barcode-based WMS cannot see, no labels required.

Track Every Item to the Bin

Each unit gets identified, graded, and located, so the floor has a live record from dock to bin.

Floor Visibility and Control

See what you are holding, where it sits, and what it is worth, by unit, not by guess.

Recover the Floor Space

Clear stranded inventory toward its best path so billable and sellable space comes back.

Agentic Co-Workers

AI agents handle the repetitive intake, lookup, and listing work so staff manage exceptions.

500%

growth in recommerce sales for City Recyclers within the first 90 days, with no added labor, once each unit was identified and tracked

Excel3PL uses the platform to streamline reverse logistics and increase recovery value, and Amazon Return Centers run massive-scale volume on Upstream.

City Recyclers Excel3PL Amazon Return Centers

Who It's For

Built for the teams that need to see the whole floor.

3PL & Reverse Logistics

Operators who need a system of record for the inventory their WMS cannot track, so the floor runs on data instead of memory.

CPG Brands

Brands running their own warehouses who want item-level visibility and control over returns, overstock, and damaged stock.

See What a Tracked Floor Recovers

Put your volume against the recovery gap and see the number, then read how a recycler turned a tracked floor into a 500% lift in 90 days.