Leanafy WMS 3.5 adds labor tracking and warehouse controls for 3PLs

Leanafy has released WMS 3.5, a major update aimed at giving 3PLs clearer visibility into labor productivity, warehouse layout, and fulfillment speed. The company says the software is now generally available at no extra cost to customers in the U.S., Canada, and India.

Why it matters: - Labor is the largest controllable cost in many 3PL warehouses, but off-process work like cleaning, maintenance, training, and downtime has often stayed invisible in the WMS. - Leanafy WMS 3.5 is built to make that labor measurable alongside inventory and orders, so managers can spot margin leaks and adjust staffing, rates, or processes shift by shift. - The release also aims to cut operator friction across the warehouse floor, where seconds saved on navigation and fulfillment can compound across every shift.

What happened: - Leanafy announced the general availability of Leanafy WMS 3.5 on August 6, 2026. - The release introduces eight upgrades to the platform. - The headline addition is a new Workforce module for labor productivity tracking. - Leanafy said WMS 3.5 is generally available at no additional cost to customers in the United States, Canada and India. - The full changelog is available at the complete list of changes.

The details: - The Workforce module records punch-in and punch-out times, plus custom activity tracking for work the system does not automatically see. - The module covers cleaning, maintenance, training, time between tasks, and other off-process labor so each hour is accounted for. - A live labor layer shows the day’s workload against who is actually on shift, including morning, afternoon and night coverage. - The system flags staffing mismatches, such as a prompt that says, “1 order past TAT, consider reallocating operators.” - Built-in shift scheduling uses a drag-to-build 24-hour timeline. - Team rosters now show each person’s role and cost, along with attendance history. - The Productivity view tracks daily labor cost, blended cost per unit, utilization and total output, with week-over-week trends. - Cost Efficiency by Function breaks out unit economics for receiving, picking, packing, shipping and kit assembly. - The Location Map & Area Management tools turn warehouse locations into a visual map with aisles, levels and color-coded statuses for vacant, occupied and on hold. - Clicking a location reveals the license plate, lot, expiry and quantity stored there. - Area Management lets teams draw the building footprint, including racks, bulk, bins, staging, quarantine, dock doors and packing. - The map is also positioned as a base for future tools like real-time operator location tracking and pick-path analysis. - The new sidebar organizes core pages in warehouse flow order: Dashboard, ARNs, Inventory, Orders, Fulfilment, Invoices, Work Orders and Workforce. - Keyboard shortcuts run from Ctrl+1 through Ctrl+8 in that same sequence. - A new command layer lets users jump to screens, orders, items or locations, and also execute actions such as generating QR codes, printing or reprinting License Plate labels, tracking shipments and searching across entities. - Leanafy said its AI agent, Luna, will live in the command layer and provide conversational, in-context help and actions. - The item detail panel now puts availability and locations first in a full-width table with no horizontal scroll. - Inline controls allow cycle counts and stock transfers without leaving the panel. - A new insights view adds order trends and AI-powered analysis of inbound and outbound movement. - The fulfilment screen now shows the shipping address before label generation so staff can confirm or edit it inline. - The order list includes a new search bar so packers can jump directly to any tote or order. - The shipment form has been reduced to the essentials to speed label creation. - The dashboard is now widget-based, with pre-built widgets that can be arranged, resized and filtered per user. - Customers can request custom widgets for unique warehouse metrics, as a paid option. - Table headers now stay fixed while users scroll long lists. - A new filter bar replaces the slower filter sidebar and uses optimized APIs for faster results. - On the Orders page, users can choose which columns appear and drag to reorder them, with settings saved per user.

Between the lines: - The release reads as both an operational upgrade and a platform reset around visibility. - Leanafy is tying together labor, layout, navigation and fulfillment so managers spend less time reconciling data across screens and more time acting on it. - The company is also signaling a broader product direction: WMS 3.5 is a bridge to version 4, which is already in active development.

What's next: - Leanafy says version 3.5 is a bridge release that brings production-ready features to customers now instead of waiting for the next major version. - The company says version 4 is already in active development. - Future roadmap items hinted in the release include real-time operator location visibility and pick-path optimization tied to the warehouse layout map. - Luna’s conversational assistant features are expected to expand inside the command layer as new commands ship.

The bottom line: - Leanafy WMS 3.5 is designed to make warehouse labor measurable, warehouse space visible and day-to-day execution faster, with the biggest payoff likely for 3PLs trying to protect margins while moving more orders with less friction.