WMS Proposal Review
An independent review of the vendor proposals on your table, from the only party in the deal with no stake in which one you sign.
Fixed fee · Fully remote · About a week
What you get:
A line-by-line review of each proposal
What's included, what's assumed, what's been left for change orders, and the real cost picture: services, integrations, and the fees of year two and beyond.
Your negotiation points, ranked
What to push back on with each vendor, what each can concede, and the leverage you still hold before signature.
A straight answer on the shortlist itself
Whether these vendors fit your operation at all, or whether the strongest proposal is still the wrong system.
Priced by the stack, not the deal size:
(the fee scales with the proposals we read)
$5,000
+$1,000
The fee is identical whatever the findings say. Findings you hold before signing are leverage at the table. After signing, they're a change order.
No vendor relationships. No referral fees. No stake in what you pick.
Where this usually starts
Proposals on the table, and every one of them looks reasonable?
Every vendor said yes in the demo. Now what?
Are the year-two fees clearer to the vendor than to you?
Is there a signing date, and nobody outside the deal has read the paper?
Remote, quick, and quiet
No vendor is contacted, and none needs to know Fullstride is involved unless you decide to say so.
Send it over
The proposals, plus a 45-minute call on your operation
Five business days
Written findings, fully remote
Walk it through
A 45-minute session, so you go back to the table knowing what to say
The demos went well. Every vendor said yes to everything, and now a stack of proposals that all look reasonable can't all be right.
A proposal exists to close a deal, so whatever would slow one down stays out of the document. The vendors have negotiated hundreds of these; this may be your first in a decade. The WMS Proposal Review reads them from outside the deal.
“[Fullstride] took the guesswork out of what we needed to focus on, so we avoided months of in-fighting over requirements and over-paying for a system that was too big for us.”
Josh Frey
Director of Supply Chain, Great Dane
A short call about whether the WMS Proposal Review is the right fit at all.
Frequently asked questions.
What does a WMS Proposal Review need from us?
The proposals themselves, up to three for the base fee, and a 45-minute call about the operation they're meant to serve. The call matters as much as the paper: a proposal can only be read against the rules the warehouse actually runs on, and those aren't in any vendor's document. From there the work is fully remote. Written findings arrive in five business days, followed by a 45-minute walkthrough so the next conversation with each vendor starts from a plan. No vendor is contacted, and none needs to know Fullstride is involved unless the client decides to say so.
Is it worth reviewing proposals from vendors we trust?
Trust isn't the issue. A proposal exists to close a deal, so whatever would slow one down stays out of the document: assumptions about data readiness, integrations scoped as someone else's job, the services and fees that arrive in year two. That's strategic omission, not dishonesty. The vendor answered the questions it was asked, on a document it has negotiated hundreds of times, for a buyer who may sign one a decade. The review reads for the questions that weren't.
What if the strongest proposal is still the wrong system?
Then the findings say so. A review that only compares the documents on the table assumes the shortlist was right, and a shortlist built from demos and peer recommendations often reflects availability bias more than operational fit. So the WMS Proposal Review answers that question too, as far as the proposals and the intake call can show it: whether these vendors fit the operation at all. The fee is identical whichever way it lands. A shortlist problem found before signature is a decision to revisit; found in testing, it's a change order.
We already ran a System Fit Sprint. Do we need a WMS Proposal Review?
No. Sprint clients get Vendor Scrutiny instead, which covers everything a Proposal Review does and more: it reads the proposals against the levers the Sprint already documented, and adds demo scripts, graded demos and contract review. It's only available after a Sprint, because it depends on what the Sprint documented. The WMS Proposal Review exists for the buyer who ran their own evaluation and now has proposals in hand: it works from the proposals and one call about the operation. That's enough to read the documents against how the warehouse runs, but it isn't the floor-level baseline a Sprint documents, and it doesn't try to be. Selling both to the same client would charge twice for the same read.