I love networking and discussing with other people. You can learn so much from just listen to other peoples experience and knowledge. It is also interesting to visit colleagues in the same business and see how their operations work. When I have been round and visiting warehouses I have noticed one very important thing I […]
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More and more companies begin with e-commerce and implement omni-channel in order to be competitive. This increases the cost of both warehouse logistics and distribution significantly. Mainly due to increased amount of orders with low amounts of orderlines and often low value. With increased costs, it is suddenly much easier to make an ROI calculation […]
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U.S. Navy created in the sixties KISS “Keep It Simple, Stupid” a design principle. The KISS principle states that most systems work best if they are kept simple rather than made complicated; therefore, simplicity should be a key goal in design and unnecessary complexity should be avoided. The KISS principle of course also applies warehouse logistics, regardless of whether […]
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In my last artice I highlighted the importance of regular updates in WMS. I have received many questions about WMS and in particular, what to consider before a project regarding a WMS procurement. Below you find some things that I consider important and I choose not to go into details, every procurement is unique because of […]
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There are many ways to increase efficiency in warehouse and getting the most of your resources. What many companies forget is avoiding sub-optimization in the whole warehouse, instead they focus on each department individually. A good option is floating job positions. The management can for example make weekly schedules where employees have new workstations on […]
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It is very interesting to read about all the new technologies regarding warehouse logistics. I think there is great opportunities in many of them. However, before you start looking at any kind of investment in any of the new technologies, you should have the following three points in place in warehouse logistics. This is based […]
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I´m curious and like to be up to date in my business area. I read a lot about logistics, often trend analysis reports regarding warehouse logistics. Most of the subjects is the same in these reports, e-commerce omni-channel, automation, robotics, and so on. However, one subject got my attention more than the others. It is […]
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As I have written in previous articles, it is very important to know the WMS you use and which features you can use in your warehouse flow. One problem however, how do you know that a specific feature is useful in your warehouse and that there will be positive effects from using it? Most often, […]
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With omni-channel and e-commerce, warehouse production becomes more complex. Companies focus more on efficiency and costs in warehouse production to increase competitiveness Labor costs are one of the largest costs in warehouse production but at the same time it is a cost that we can influence by utilizing resources in an optimal way. It is […]
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When will companies see the big picture of supply chain and begin to collaborate between purchasing, warehouse, suppliers and sales divisions? I talked recently with a logistics colleague in another company who told me that they were investing several hundred million SEK in automation. They needed to increase the efficiency and capacity both in and […]
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