Everything on paper
Picking, put-away, and inbound all ran on pen and paper, with no real-time view of stock or orders. Issues had to be dealt with one at a time, which was slow and a constant source of frustration.
Customer story • warehouse control & inbound efficiency
Bitlog freed the floor and made inbound 30% faster at Vårdväskan
Vårdväskan (Color4Care), the Falkenberg-based maker of customizable workwear, used to run its warehouse on pen and paper, with every problem landing on the logistics manager's desk. With Bitlog WMS, the floor team now fixes issues in the moment from a device in their hand, and inbound processing went over 30% faster on less than one full-time role. The manager finally got to be strategic.
“As Head of Logistics I should be more strategic. Instead, before Bitlog WMS I was day-to-day. I was managing people and I was telling them what they should be doing.”
Iain Wilson
Head of Logistics, Vårdväskan (Color4Care)
About Vårdväskan/Color4Care
A growing workwear business that outgrew its warehouse operations
Vårdväskan, known internationally as Color4Care, was founded in 2011 in Falkenberg, Sweden. The company designs and supplies customizable workwear and accessories, with a growing product range and an increasing focus on B2B sales.
As order volumes and the range expanded, the warehouse became the bottleneck: it ran on manual, paper-based routines with no real-time visibility, and the operation leaned heavily on its managers to keep things moving.
The business was ready to scale. The warehouse wasn't.
The Solution
One system, built from the warehouse floor up
Vårdväskan didn't want a system that looked good in a boardroom but got in the way on the floor. What sold them on Bitlog was the opposite: a WMS built around enabling the person doing the actual work. Every task sits on a smartphone in the operator's hand, so the information and the action are in the same place as the problem.
That was the key. Instead of walking to a computer or asking a manager, staff could see what they needed and fix it right there. And the system was simple enough that the team picked it up quickly.
The numbers backed it up too. When Vårdväskan looked at the costs, the case came out positive, so the decision was easy.
“The thing that really sold it for me in the first place was that it was a bottom-up system. It seemed to have been built from the point of view of the person working in the warehouse.”
Iain Wilson
Head of Logistics, Vårdväskan (Color4Care)
“With everyone having the system in their hands on an mobile device, they have all the information they need. They can fix problems straight away. They don't need to come to me or walk off to a computer.”
Iain Wilson
Head of Logistics, Vårdväskan (Color4Care)
Warehouse operations built to keep growing
For Vårdväskan, warehouse automation with Bitlog WMS turned a manual, paper-based operation into one the floor team runs on its own.
The clearest win is in inbound logistics, where processing runs over 30% faster on less than one full-time role, but the bigger shift is cultural: with the WMS on a mobile device in every hand, operators fix problems in the moment instead of routing them to a manager.
Onboarding was straightforward because the system was designed from the warehouse worker's point of view, not bolted on from the top down.
Inventory adjustments are minimal and fully traceable, so regular counts stay clean.
As the B2B side of the business grows, Bitlog gives Vårdväskan a warehouse that scales with it, and a logistics team with the time to help the wider business grow.
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