Many people underestimate warehouse management. Supply chain management sounds serious but warehousing is something you can do with one hand is an old idea. Nothing could be more wrong. With e-commerce and omni-channel warehousing is one of the most complex operations in supply chain. Warehousing is no longer about keeping things in order, it’s a […]
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A modern warehouse should be as cost effective as possible. Agile and Lean are key words in each warehouse with self-respect who want to minimize their costs. However, if these words should mean something in practice what is required of your leaders and staff? Primarily you need a leadership that not just want to manage […]
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The quality of warehouse operations is extremely important it does not matter how efficient the warehouse is if the quality is poor. What you gain in efficiency you loose in customers when their products are missing, wrong or damaged. Never underestimate the cost of poor quality in warehouse operations, it is major costs in man-hours […]
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Often I have the question, do you benchmark your warehouse production and how do you compare to others? There is no easy answer. It is very difficult to benchmark a warehouse. Often you put in many working hours in a benchmark but the result is more or less of no value. You will see when […]
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Leadership and organizational structure is often underestimated in warehouses. It is strange given that warehouses are often large to the surface with many subdivisions and different types of flows both in and out of the warehouse. Compared to production industry, it is often more blue collars per manager in a warehouse, it is not unusual […]
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Two popular words in logistics, Lean and Agile. These words are also among the first mentioned by colleagues I meet in the logistics industry when they want to explain their logistics operations. Of course, I think Lean is a good philosophy, I use it myself and it sure is good to be agile. Actually if […]
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What kind of leadership do you have in your organization at the warehouse? Is there a leadership that encourages development and innovation? Or is it a leadership that prefers “business as usual”? If you have not thought about this before, it’s time to do that regardless of where in the organization you are. It definitely […]
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Unfortunately, warehouses is often given low priority when it comes to corporate allocation of HR resources. It often happens that I encounter warehouse operations without proper HR function. For some reason companies put all the resources to white collars. According to me and the experience I have, it is a big mistake. If you want […]
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