Warehouse software is finally learning to bend. On September 22, 2026, AutoScheduler launched a warehouse app builder that lets logistics teams create custom tools directly from live facility data. The module sits inside the company’s wider Warehouse AI Platform, giving site planners a way to build targeted software routines in plain language instead of waiting for another enterprise software cycle.
Distribution centres depend on rigid enterprise resource planning and warehouse management suites, but those systems do not cover every operational gap. AutoScheduler’s builder is designed to bypass lengthy commercial release cycles and overburdened enterprise IT queues, allowing teams to assemble tools for specific needs inside the operation itself.
Keith Moore, CEO at AutoScheduler, described the problem without dressing it up: “Warehouses run on massive systems that are expensive and slow to customise, so operators fill the gaps with spreadsheets, business intelligence tools, homegrown tools, and tribal knowledge.” The new software targets the gap between what large systems provide and what a live facility needs on a given day.
Plain-language tools for warehouse bottlenecks
Operators have built applications targeting wave sequences, replenishment triggers, and cross-dock allocation priorities. Those examples show where the app builder fits: not as a replacement for core warehouse systems, but as a way to create focused routines around the decisions those systems often leave untouched.
That distinction matters because warehouse teams rarely need another giant platform with a multi-year rollout attached. They need software that responds to facility data and operational priorities without forcing every request through a commercial release schedule or an already overloaded enterprise IT queue.
The approach also places more control with site planners. They can assemble targeted software routines in plain language, turning a specific warehouse requirement into an application rather than recording the request in a backlog and hoping it survives contact with corporate priorities.
Kenco puts warehouse orchestration on display
On September 17, 2026, GreyOrange’s AI-powered warehouse orchestration solutions were showcased at the Kenco Innovation Lab. Kenco, a third-party logistics provider, opened its first Innovation Lab in 2015, expanded it in 2019, and has now built a new facility three times the size of the original.
Kenco has partnered with GreyOrange since 2024 and runs GreyOrange’s GreyMatter warehouse orchestration software across a growing number of distribution centers. The new lab demonstrates three ways GreyMatter coordinates warehouse activity: directing goods-to-person picking, managing sortation for outbound shipping, and coordinating point-to-point material handling and case picking.
At one live site, that orchestration produced a 20% reduction in transportation costs, a 30% drop in pallets per order, and 2 times as many cases picked per hour. Those figures make the practical argument for orchestration better than another slide deck about digital transformation ever could.
Ainsley Williams, Vice President of Automation & Innovation at Kenco, said: “The Innovation Lab has long stood as the convergence point for leading technologies and real-world applications, helping both manufacturers and customers identify and realize what’s possible.” The lab connects those technologies with operating conditions that can be tested in real warehouse environments.
GreyOrange is the category champion for multi-agent AI orchestration and optimization. Its solutions deliver continuous improvements in throughput and sales volume for supply chain and retail leaders across more than 3,800 locations worldwide, while more than $1 billion in inventory flows through its systems every month.
Akash Gupta, CEO of GreyOrange, framed the challenge around coordination: “As 3PLs scale their operations and deploy increasingly heterogeneous fleets, real gains come from getting every piece of technology and every person on the floor working seamlessly. That’s what orchestration delivers in practice: higher throughput, reduced costs per unit, and better-supported associates. Kenco is putting that into practice at scale, and we’re proud to help show what it looks like in the new Innovation Lab.”
GreyOrange was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Atlanta. Taken together, the two developments point toward the same shift: warehouse technology is moving away from fixed suites and isolated automation toward software that can adapt to live operations—because the spreadsheet was never meant to run a distribution centre.
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