Supply chain and logistics dashboards on warehouse screens
Quick answer: DigitalSignage.com runs warehouse and logistics dashboards on its free plan: the first 3 screens are free forever, then $3 per screen per month, on Android, Windows, Chrome OS or Raspberry Pi players behind any display. A warehouse screen shows the dock schedule, pick rate against plan, orders due by carrier cutoff, exceptions and the safety message, fed from a shared Google Sheet, a Power BI or WMS dashboard page through the SignStudio Web Page component, or a JSON feed. High-bay screens need 75 inches or more and 84pt text at 30 feet; a dock door facing daylight needs 700 to 1,500 nits; pack stations do best with a portrait board at arm's length.
Last updated October 22, 2026. Product facts from the SignStudio components, Power BI and portrait screen pages; size, brightness and type figures from our screen size, brightness and typography guides.
What belongs on a warehouse screen
A warehouse has three audiences with three different screens: the dock, the floor, and the pack line. One dashboard for all of them pleases nobody.
| Screen | Audience | Content |
|---|---|---|
| Dock board | Receiving and shipping, drivers | Today's appointments by door and time, trailer status (arrived, loading, departed), late arrivals, carrier cutoffs counting down |
| Floor board (high bay) | Pickers, forklift drivers, supervisors | Pick rate against plan this shift, orders released and remaining, wave status, zone with the backlog, days since last incident, the safety message of the week |
| Pack station board (portrait) | Packers | Orders due by carrier cutoff, next cutoff countdown, packing exceptions, box and label reminders, the station's own rate |
| Office and break room | Everyone | Shift schedule, KPIs for the site, recognition, HR notices, weather for the drivers |
The numbers that matter in logistics are all about time: cutoffs, appointment windows, hours left in the shift. Put a large clock on every board, and show cutoffs as a countdown rather than a time, so "47 minutes to the 4 pm carrier" is read without arithmetic.
Data routes
The data lives in the WMS, the TMS, the yard system and the ERP. The screen does not need a direct connection to any of them if the system can publish or export.
| Route | SignStudio component | Suits |
|---|---|---|
| Shared Google Sheet updated by the dock clerk or by a script | Google Sheets component, sheet shared with the SignStudio service account | Dock appointments, cutoffs, manual counts; the screen follows the sheet as it changes |
| Hourly Excel export from the WMS | Excel upload with a cell range | Sites whose WMS already emails a shift report |
| Power BI or another BI report | Web Page component with a Publish to web URL, or a page you host with secure embed for anything confidential | Sites with BI on the WMS data; set the page refresh to the report's refresh |
| The WMS or yard system's own dashboard page | Web Page component with a URL that loads without a login, refresh interval you set | Most mid-size operations; the screen shows what supervisors already look at |
| JSON or XML endpoint | JSON or XML data component mapped to text fields, refresh in seconds | Conveyor counters, scanner gateways, custom reporting |
| Carrier tracking and transit times | RSS or web page from the carrier's public status page | Dock boards |
Anything that needs a user to sign in cannot be shown by an unattended player, so publish the report, export it, or use a secure embed; our Microsoft 365 page covers the choices. Start with the sheet: a dock clerk who already keeps appointments in a spreadsheet can drive the dock board on day one, and an integration can replace the manual step later without changing the screen.
High-bay screens: size, brightness and type
A floor board in a high-bay warehouse is read from 20 to 50 feet by people on forklifts, which sets everything about it.
| Viewing distance | Screen | Body text (1080p canvas) | Headline and numbers |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 to 15 feet | 55 inches minimum, 65 to 75 recommended | 36 to 48pt | 72 to 96pt |
| 15 to 25 feet | 75 inches minimum, 85 to 98 recommended | 48 to 72pt | 96 to 144pt |
| 25 to 50 feet | 98 inches or a video wall | 84 to 132pt | 168 to 264pt |
Brightness depends on where the screen hangs. Under warehouse lighting of 300 to 500 lux, the brightness guide's office row applies: 350 to 500 nits, which a commercial panel has and a consumer TV just reaches. A screen by an open dock door or a skylight sits in the "near large windows" row: 700 to 1,500 nits. Specify for the end of the panel's life, because brightness halves over its rated hours. Mount high enough to clear forklift masts, tilt the screen down toward the aisle, and keep cabling in conduit; a hard-wired Ethernet drop is better than Wi-Fi among metal racking.
A pick-rate board is mostly numbers, so use the numbers column of the table above rather than the body text column; a 48-foot aisle wants a four-digit rate readable from the far end.
Portrait boards at pack stations
A pack station is the opposite case: one packer, arm's length, a narrow space between the bench and the shelf. A 24 to 32 inch screen in portrait, mounted on the shelf upright at eye level, shows a long list (orders due, in cutoff order) without scrolling. SignStudio has a Portrait HD preset (1,080 by 1,920); design the scene in portrait and rotate the player's output to match the mounted screen, as our portrait guide explains for Windows, Android, Raspberry Pi, Chrome OS and Mac. Body text of 24pt reads at 3 to 6 feet.
A station board can also be the packer's own rate against the station target, which is motivating when it is the station's figure and resented when it is the person's; show the station.
Safety on logistics screens
Warehouses are forklift and dock-edge environments, and the screen is the one place every shift looks. Give safety a fixed zone on the floor board, not a slide in a rotation: days since the last recordable incident (the SignStudio countdown component counts up from a date), the week's focus (dock edge, pedestrian lanes, load securing), and the emergency message prepared in advance. The emergency priority campaign replaces every screen on the site at once and is included on the free plan. Our workplace safety page covers the content.
Refresh and resilience
| Data | Refresh |
|---|---|
| Dock appointments and trailer status | 1 to 5 minutes, or when the clerk edits the sheet |
| Pick rate, orders remaining | 1 to 5 minutes |
| Carrier cutoffs | A countdown runs on the player; the list changes once a day |
| Safety, shift, site KPIs | Once a shift |
Set the Web Page component's refresh interval to match the source and show an "updated at" time on every live tile. When the network drops, the DigitalSignage.com SignPlayer keeps playing cached scenes: the cutoff list and the safety zone keep showing, while a web dashboard shows its last state until the connection returns. Keep a cached fallback scene behind every live zone.
Setup in six steps
- Decide which of the three boards (dock, floor, pack station) you need first; most sites start with the dock.
- Create a free DigitalSignage.com account and install the SignPlayer on an Android TV stick, Windows PC, Chromebox or Raspberry Pi; the player shows a registration code, which you type into SignStudio under Register SignPlayer.
- Build the scene from a dashboard template at the screen's native resolution, portrait for the pack station.
- Share the appointments or orders sheet with the SignStudio service account and place the Google Sheets component, or paste the dashboard URL into the Web Page component with a refresh interval.
- Add the clock, the cutoff countdown and the safety zone.
- Mount, then stand where the pickers and drivers stand and check that the numbers read.
Cost
The first 3 screens are free forever on DigitalSignage.com, then $3 per screen per month for every screen once the account has 4 or more: a distribution centre with 12 screens pays $432 a year. Hardware per screen: a $40 to $100 Android TV stick or an $81 to $137 Raspberry Pi build, and a commercial 55-inch panel at $995 to $1,450 or a larger panel for the high bay. A 75-inch panel costs about $130 a year in electricity at 12 hours a day; a 24-hour site should double that.
Frequently asked questions
Supply chain and logistics dashboards on warehouse screens
Run three kinds of board: a dock board with appointments by door, trailer status and carrier cutoffs; a high-bay floor board with pick rate against plan, orders remaining, wave status and safety; and portrait pack-station boards listing orders due by cutoff. Feed them from a shared Google Sheet, a WMS or Power BI dashboard page through the SignStudio Web Page component, or a JSON feed. High-bay screens need 75 inches or more with 84pt text at 30 feet; dock doors facing daylight need 700 to 1,500 nits.
How do I show WMS data on a warehouse TV?
If the WMS publishes a dashboard page that loads without a login, show it through the SignStudio Web Page component with a refresh interval. Otherwise export to a Google Sheet shared with the SignStudio service account or upload an Excel export with a cell range, or publish a Power BI report. A JSON or XML endpoint can be mapped to text fields for counters.
What size screen do I need in a high-bay warehouse?
At 15 to 25 feet, 75 inches minimum and 85 to 98 recommended; beyond 25 feet, 98 inches or a video wall. Body text should be 48 to 72pt at 15 to 25 feet and 84pt or more at 30 feet on a 1080p canvas, with the key numbers twice that.
How bright does a dock door screen need to be?
A screen under ordinary warehouse lighting needs 350 to 500 nits. One beside an open dock door or under a skylight competes with daylight and needs 700 to 1,500 nits, and it should be specified for the brightness it will have at the end of the panel's life, which is about half the day-one figure.
Should pack station boards be portrait or landscape?
Portrait. A 24 to 32 inch screen upright on the shelf at eye level shows a long list of orders in cutoff order without scrolling. Design the scene with the SignStudio Portrait HD preset (1,080 by 1,920) and rotate the player's output to match the mounted screen.
What does warehouse digital signage cost?
Software is free for the first 3 screens on DigitalSignage.com, then $3 per screen per month for every screen once the account has 4 or more, so 12 screens are $432 a year. Hardware is a $40 to $100 Android TV stick or an $81 to $137 Raspberry Pi build per screen plus the display: a commercial 55-inch panel is $995 to $1,450. A 75-inch panel uses about $130 of electricity a year at 12 hours a day.
Related guides
- Transportation digital signage
- Manufacturing digital signage
- Screen size and viewing distance
- Portrait screens and rotation
- Power BI integration
- Display brightness standards
Try it on your own screens, free
DigitalSignage.com, which publishes this guide, runs a permanent free plan: the first 3 screens are free forever (no credit card, no ads, no time limit), then from $3 per screen per month with volume pricing via a public calculator. The free SignPlayer runs on Windows, Mac, Android and Android TV, Chrome OS, Raspberry Pi, iPad or any modern web browser. Start free · 2026 pricing