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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I have seen a lot of articles on LinkedIn regarding warehouse design. I have noticed that many people claim that they know the ultimate design. They also mention a lot of principles you should use when you make the layout in the warehouse. Developing an optimal warehouse design is one of the most complex tasks […]
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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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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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