Built for the warehouses that got skipped.
Hangar is a warehouse management system for US wholesale and industrial distributors and light manufacturers. The kind of business with real bins, real pick paths and real inventory risk, but no appetite for a year-long implementation.
The problem we kept running into
A distributor grows past the point where one person can hold the warehouse in their head. Stock is somewhere, roughly. Counts happen once a year and the variance is absorbed as a cost of doing business. Somebody keeps a spreadsheet that is nearly right, and the picker who knows where everything is takes two weeks off in July.
The available answers are both bad. Enterprise warehouse software solves the problem properly and costs more than the problem does, in money and in months. Bolting inventory onto an accounting package solves the reporting and leaves the floor exactly where it was. What is missing in between is software that treats the warehouse as the system of record and still installs in weeks.
What we decided up front
A few choices were made before any code was written, and they have not moved since. They are the reason the product behaves the way it does.
The record comes first
Every movement is appended and nothing is ever overwritten. Quantities are derived from the record rather than stored alongside it, so the number on the screen and the history behind it cannot disagree. A correction is a new row pointing at the one it reverses, which means an audit is a query rather than an investigation.
The floor is the hard part
Most warehouse software is designed for the person buying it and endured by the person using it. Two pickers reaching the same bin, a scanner losing Wi-Fi halfway down an aisle, a double-tap on a cold morning: these are the normal case, not the edge case, and they decide whether the system is trusted by week three.
Sized for the businesses that got skipped
Enterprise WMS assumes a project team, a budget line and a year. Spreadsheets assume nothing goes wrong. Between those there are thousands of distributors running real warehouses on neither, and that gap is the whole reason Hangar exists.
A clear line with accounting
Hangar owns quantity and your accounting system owns value. We do not compute prices, we do not guess costs, and we do not ask you to run your books twice. Where the two systems meet, the boundary is deliberate and narrow.
How we would rather sell it
By showing you the thing. Every demo runs on your own part numbers and your own bin codes, on a scanner you are holding, and we spend part of it deliberately doing the wrong thing to show you what happens. If that goes badly, you have lost half an hour. If it goes well, you have seen the actual product rather than a rendering of it.
If you are still working out whether you need a warehouse system at all, we wrote an honest answer to that:inventory software versus a warehouse management system. It tells most readers not to buy one. Otherwise, see what Hangar actually runs.
Put your warehouse in order.
Thirty minutes with your own items and bins, on a real scanner. Not a slide deck.
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