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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In order to increase efficiency and/ quality, you need to analyze the current workflow and working methods. For that, you must be able to collect and work with clear and reliable data. This is one of the reasons I propagate for an established WMS. The analytic tools is definitely features to look at when investing […]
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The development within WMS goes faster than ever. Competition between the various suppliers is tough and there are many good systems on the market. As a customer, there are many things to focus on in a procurement of WMS including the costs of future updates as well as standardization of customer-specific solutions. Businesses with e-commerce and omni-channel […]
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More and more companies invest in automation solutions. Not that the prices in automation technology decrease significantly, the reason is rather that other costs increase that make the ROI more attractive. E-commerce and omni-channel increases logistics costs. More orders with fewer order lines at a low value are not a good combination for profitability, but […]
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I have written in previous articles about my point of view regarding warehousing. I want to call warehousing “warehouse production” because it is more and more important for companies to have a cost-effective supply chain. It is a margin enhancer and sometimes the only way for some companies to be competitive. And if you call […]
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More and more products are getting “smart” and uses IoT (Internet of things). There are many definitions of IoT but I like the McKinsey Global Institute definition: IoT devices are those that “can monitor their environment, report their status, receive instructions, and even take action based on the information they receive.” McKinsey further notes that […]
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Warehousing is a major cost in every company. I have noticed during my twenty years in the industry that companies usually have two different attitudes to warehouse production. The first attitude: “Warehousing is a big cost therefor we need to do everything to cut the budget and keep the costs down, no investments at all” […]
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As I have written in previous articles, for an efficient and successful warehouse you need two very important things. First, is leadership and a strong organization the second thing is good and competent WMS, a tool that many companies invest a lot of money in but few make use of their full potential. I will […]
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In the increasingly complex flow of goods that exist today with for example e-commerce and omni-channel with generally shorter lead times, you risk the cost of warehouse logistics to skyrocket unless companies start working cross-functional in the supply chain. The warehouse is the hub of the supply chain, it is the warehouse that faces the […]
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Many companies have invested and many companies still invest in pick to voice. I have always been a little ambivalent to pick to voice. The technology has not become a total success. It’s still an expensive investment with some limitations. We humans can not get information quickly enough by listening compared to if we use […]
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