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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One of the most common reasons for poor efficiency and quality in the warehouse production is the lack of standardization. If you don´t use best practice and make an optimal standard for every process I can ensure you will have as many ways to perform a process as you have employees. You cannot refer to […]
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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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A good competent and established WMS is very complex and includes many features, many of which you will never use, but there are many features that can help you in your warehouse operations that you do not know about. Often warehouse manager is the one who is responsible for the development of a warehouse. It […]
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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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Supply chain including warehouse production is all about cost control. Every process, from orders to suppliers to picking and packing to customer. It is all about analyzing, measuring and finding a cost price for every process. If you have a price there is a lot easier to make the right decisions, both at strategic and […]
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In my previous posts, I have not mentioned the size of the warehouses I write about, I have chosen general issues affecting all kinds of warehouses more or less. I have received some comments on this and of course, the conditions is very different depending on the size of business and size of the warehouse. […]
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After talking with several WMS developers recently it seems like a trend right now that many companies are buying WMS from their existing ERP vendors. Companies don’t make a real procurement with a preliminary study and requirements specification etc. I find it very strange that companies take so easily in such an important system as […]
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I have worked in logistics for twenty years. During these years, I have encountered many colleagues who are frustrated because their boards have a reluctance to invest in logistics. Senior management has difficulties in understanding why the logistics cost as much as it does. Marketing and sales departments have a higher status because it naturally […]
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When you invest in a WMS you also need hardware, for example rugged tablets, often with Microsoft Windows as OS. The developer/supplier of WMS often have solution-approved hardware that they suggest you buy from them or partners to ensure operational safety, etc. The problem is that industrially adapted tablets and PC’s are extremely expensive. Most […]
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