01 · Contract logistics
Hundreds of warehouses. One energy view.
Contract-logistics portfolios span continents. The buildings are leased, the meters are old, IT presence is minimal, and energy is invisible until the bill arrives. Wia is built for this - retrofit hardware on whatever the landlord has installed, cellular and LoRaWAN backhaul so no IT footprint is needed, and a data model that treats the warehouse, not the building, as the unit of work.
What makes contract logistics distinctive is that the customer owns the energy bill but rarely owns the building. That breaks the standard playbook: you can't install heavy IT, you can't depend on the landlord's BMS, and the team chasing tariff arbitrage often isn't the team paying for the meter. Wia handles that split by default - one operating model across every country, every meter type, every tenancy arrangement.
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Countries live
Hundreds
Warehouses on one view
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Site install, no Wia engineer
How rollout works for contract logistics
Three steps. Every country, same playbook.
01
Bulk import the portfolio
Sites flow in from your portfolio system or a spreadsheet - addresses, square footage, country, operating hours. No per-site survey before kickoff. Hardware BOM generated automatically per site.
02
Local install, no Wia engineer
Hardware ships to each warehouse pre-configured for its meter. A local electrician fits the retrofit clamp in under an hour. Buildings stay on, shifts uninterrupted, tenants unaffected.
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Live energy across the portfolio
Every site streams in within 24 hours of install. Country leads see their region, the ESG team sees the group, individual managers see their warehouse. One operating model worldwide.
Inside Contract logistics
Everything Contract logistics brings, in one place.
Cross-border benchmarking
Compare warehouses against each other on a like-for-like basis - kWh per pallet, kWh per m², kWh per shift - across currencies, tariffs and climates. Find the outliers immediately, not at year-end.
Shift-pattern aware
Working hours, peak shifts and shutdowns are configured per warehouse. Out-of-hours waste is flagged against the actual operating pattern of that site, not a generic 9-to-5 assumption.
Multi-utility per shed
Electricity, gas and water on one pane per warehouse. Refrigeration loads, charging stations, gas-fired heating and process water all visible side-by-side, not split across separate dashboards.
Tariff & currency handling
Each meter carries its tariff structure - time-of-use, capacity charges, indexed pricing - in local currency. The dashboard surfaces cost in your reporting currency without ever losing the contractual reality.
Sub-tenant attribution
Where sub-meters exist, energy gets allocated to the tenant or work cell using them. Useful for cross-charge, useful for proving abatement initiatives actually moved the right meter.
Country roll-up reporting
Group → region → country → site rollups, configurable for your org chart. ESG team sees the group view, country leads see only their region, site managers see their warehouse. Same data, role-based slices.
Contract-logistics customers run Wia across 30+ countries today, with retrofit hardware deployed by local teams. Reporting cycles that used to be quarterly run monthly.
Coverage
One operating model across the whole portfolio.
Contract logistics is the segment Wia was built for - high site count, low IT footprint, no engineer on the ground. Retrofit-first means every country runs on the same hardware, the same data shape, the same operational playbook. Your team manages a warehouse in São Paulo the same way they manage one in Stockholm.
No country-specific integration project. No regional dashboards. One playbook, every warehouse.
Works with
The systems your logistics team already runs on.
Wia plugs into the operational and financial systems contract-logistics operators use today - WMS, TMS, ERP and finance - so the energy data sits next to the volume data.
WMS / TMS
- Manhattan
- Blue Yonder
- SAP EWM
- Oracle WMS
- Körber
- Reflex
ERP & finance
- SAP S/4HANA
- Oracle Fusion
- Microsoft Dynamics
- NetSuite
- IFS
Operational tools
- Tableau
- Power BI
- Snowflake
- Slack
- Microsoft Teams
FAQ
Common questions
What if we don't own the building?
Most contract-logistics customers don't. Retrofit hardware sits beside the meter without modifying it - landlord consent is usually unnecessary, and where it's required the conversation is short because nothing in the building changes. The hardware leaves with you at end of lease.
Can you handle warehouses in regions without smart meters?
Yes - that's the point of retrofit. Our hardware reads pulse, modbus and optical interfaces on legacy meters going back to the 1980s. Where even that's a stretch, manual upload from periodic walk-rounds keeps the warehouse on the same dashboard until hardware lands.
How does it work with our country-level reporting team?
Role-based access lets country leads see only their region while the group ESG team sees consolidated reporting. Tariffs, currencies and working hours are configured per site, so what each user sees is locally correct without losing the group view.
What about sub-tenant attribution inside a shared warehouse?
Where sub-meters exist we allocate to the tenant or work cell using them. Where they don't, we can install lightweight sub-metering as part of the same retrofit. Either way the dashboard surfaces "this load belongs to this customer" rather than mixing it into building-level totals.