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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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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In my last artice I highlighted the importance of regular updates in WMS. I have received many questions about WMS and in particular, what to consider before a project regarding a WMS procurement. Below you find some things that I consider important and I choose not to go into details, every procurement is unique because of […]
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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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In order to be able to conduct lean in a good way you should keep the value chain as simple as possible to be flexible, with another word agile. I have met colleagues in the industry who believe you should be restrictive to investing in new technology like automation solutions to avoid be locked in […]
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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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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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