Precious Metals Warehouse Management Software
3PL Precious Metals
Inventory Is More Than Inventory. It's Trust.
Every client brings different billing, workflows, and SLAs. Footprint® WMS adapts to all of it. No workarounds, no compromises.
Manage allocated and segregated holdings, maintain complete asset traceability, and streamline vault operations with a cloud warehouse management platform built to adapt.
Recognized by Gartner® as a Notable Vendor in the Midmarket Context: Magic Quadrant™ for Warehouse Management Systems for the second year in a row.
Highly Configurable
Enterprise Grade Security
Years of Expertise
0+Proven in Controlled, High-Value Environments
Built to Scale
The Challenge
Precious Metals Operations Are Different
Why It's Different
Every asset is physical inventory, financial value, and customer property. Every transaction must preserve ownership, chain of custody, and complete traceability.
Why Organizations Change
Homegrown, spreadsheet, and legacy systems stop keeping up as you grow. More clients, vaults, and reporting demands call for real-time inventory accuracy, multi-client billing, and cloud scalability, on a platform built to adapt.
What Makes Precious Metals Inventory Management Different?
Precious metals inventory management is warehouse management for high-value assets where ownership, chain of custody, and traceability matter as much as accuracy. Every movement must preserve custody and prove each asset's identity, so operators need a configurable, cloud WMS built for allocated and segregated holdings.
That requires a warehouse management platform that supports custody-driven operations, adapts to your business, and scales as you grow.
Footprint® WMS brings these operational requirements together on a single configurable platform.
Ownership Matters
Gain complete visibility into asset ownership, custody, and movement to support secure, compliant vault operations.
Every Asset Is Unique
Track serial numbers, weight, purity, assay information, certificates, and provenance throughout the asset lifecycle.
Trust Depends on Traceability
Document every receipt, transfer, reconciliation, and withdrawal with a complete chain of custody and audit history.
Complexity Grows with Scale
As vaults, customers, and regulatory requirements expand, you need cloud/SaaS scalability, real-time inventory visibility, and API, EDI, and ERP integration with configurable workflows.
Warehouse Management Built Around Custody Models
Our Solution
No two precious metals operations are the same.
Footprint WMS adapts to your custody model, workflows, approvals, and business processes without forcing you to redesign how your operation works.
Custody Management: Built Around Ownership
Support allocated, segregated, and pooled holdings while maintaining complete ownership visibility.
- Flexible custody models
- Multi-client customer-specific ownership tracking
- Inventory organized by client, vault, asset type, or operational status
Chain of Custody: Every Movement Accounted For
Track every receipt, transfer, reconciliation, and withdrawal with complete custody history.
- Continuous chain of custody
- Complete transaction history
- Audit-ready records
Asset Identity: Every Asset Remains Unique
Maintain complete identity throughout the asset lifecycle.
- Serial numbers, weight, purity, and assay information
- Certificates and provenance
- Complete asset traceability
Governance & Security: Operational Control at Every Step
Protect operational integrity with configurable controls and enterprise security.
- Role-based permissions
- Dual-control workflows
- Complete audit trails
One WMS Platform for Vaults, Refiners, and Depositories
At Datex, our values guide us in delivering simple, dependable solutions that make warehouse management easier every day.
Connected Business
Integrate ERP, finance, trading platforms, transportation providers, customer portals, and third-party applications.
Configurable Workflows
Configure approvals, handling rules, reporting, customer requirements, and operational processes without rebuilding your application.
Ready to Grow
Support facilities, customers, transaction volumes, and services on a cloud/SaaS platform that scales with your business.
Precious Metals Expertise That Few WMS Providers Can Match
With decades of warehouse management expertise and real-world experience supporting precious metals organizations, Datex is one of the few WMS providers with a deep understanding of custody-driven operations.
Whether you're expanding services, opening new facilities, or replacing legacy systems, Footprint® WMS gives you the flexibility to move forward with confidence.
Footprint WMS supports organizations across the precious metals ecosystem, including:
Precious metals depositories
Vault operators
Bullion dealers
Refiners
Secure transportation companies
Industry Perspective
Trust isn't created by the vault alone.
It's created by every process surrounding the assets inside it.
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Integrations
Seamless third-party integrations to keep your entire business connected.
Frequently Asked Questions
About Precious Metals Warehouse Management Software
What is allocated vs. segregated precious metals storage?
Allocated storage assigns specific bars or coins to an owner by serial number and weight, though they may be stored alongside other clients’ metal. Segregated storage physically separates one client’s assets in a dedicated space and returns the exact items deposited. Both preserve ownership and chain of custody, and segregated storage typically costs more.
What is chain of custody in precious metals logistics?
Chain of custody is the documented, unbroken record of who handled an asset and when, from source or receipt through every transfer, reconciliation, and withdrawal. Each movement is logged against unique identifiers such as serial numbers. In precious metals it proves ownership, provenance, and integrity, and it is essential for audits, insurance, and regulatory compliance.
Why do precious metals companies build proprietary inventory systems?
Many build custom systems because standard tools, and spreadsheets, do not handle custody models, serialized bar-level identity, purity and assay data, dual-control approvals, and real-time client reporting. Firms like IDS built proprietary portals for exactly this reason. A configurable, custody-driven WMS removes the need to build in-house by supporting these requirements out of the box while scaling with the business.
What should a warehouse management system support for bullion storage?
A bullion-ready WMS should support allocated, segregated, and pooled custody; serialized tracking with weight, purity or fineness, and assay data; complete chain-of-custody history with reconciliation; dual-control (four-eye) workflows; role-based permissions; real-time inventory accuracy and client visibility; and audit-ready reporting, all configurable to the operation’s approvals and integrations.
Zebra Hardware
Need hardware for your operation? Datex partners with Zebra to deliver hardware that actually holds up, on the floor, in the aisle, and when operations are under pressure.
When every asset matters, trust every transaction.
Stay secure, compliant, and in control with a proven warehouse management platform that adapts to high-value operations.