Systems and methods for equipment agnostic control with a warehouse execution system

A materials handling system, comprising:

• a plurality of automation devices;
• and
• a computing system that is in electronic communication with the plurality of automation devices, the computing system adapted to execute a warehouse execution system (WES) engine to:
• receive a request associated with the materials handling system;
• identify a first automation device included in the plurality of automation devices that can be used to service the request, the first automation device associated with a first vendor;
• generate, by a device manager, a universal command for controlling the first automation device to service the request;
• generate, by a communication microservice based in part on the universal command, a vendor-specific command that is in a format associated with the first vendor;
• and
• control the first automation device in accordance with the vendor-specific command.