Discussions on Leadership and Lean I have had several interesting discussions both on LinkedIn and via email from blog readers concerning my articles on leadership and lean. Below are some clarifications on how I think about these topics. Why You Should Implement Lean I have received comments where people believe that lean is unnecessary and […]
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Knowledge is an extremely important competitive advantage in all kinds of business. However, many companies make the big mistake of concentrating knowledge and competence on a few people at the top of the organization. This is unfortunately very common in organizations within warehouse logistics. For example, companies build up the warehouse in a number of […]
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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 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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As I have written in previous articles, a warehouse requires good leadership to be successful. In particular, if the warehouse largely is manual. A manual warehouse is not like a manufacturing line where the pace is set from the line. In a warehouse, the management team set the pace and do the follow up often […]
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I am surprised not more warehouses implements lean in their organizations. It has been proven many times how effective it is. If you not are familiar but want to know more about lean, I recommend you to read, ”Lean Thinking: Banish Waste and Create Wealth in Your Corporation” James P. Womack and Daniel T. Jones. […]
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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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