How to Avoid Costly Year End Physical Inventory

How do you avoid a costly year-end physical inventory? This article explains how to cycle count and work with your auditor to save time, money, labor, stress and handling, all while increasing control over your critical and or expensive inventory items.

Vertical Storage and Retrieval Solutions Improve Ergonomics and Profitability

An Organizations Number One Asset is There People, Yet Why Do Many Organizations Grind Them Up and Out Unnecessarily? Floor Savings up to 85% Organizations today whether manufacturing, distribution, warehousing, medical, hospitals, institutions and pharmacies spend tremendous amount of resources in the recruiting and training of their employees. Yet, many processes and parts of their …

What is Profiling for the Warehouse?

Warehouse profiling is the process of sorting through the ABC analysis, assessing the distribution center size, picking methodology (consolidated, velocity, family, batch, random), warehouse product characteristics (cube, weight, stackability), cube usage (slot openings), heuristic best case analysis (selecting storage options). Once profiling of a warehouse is complete, a distribution center manager can recommend the best layout and make the warehouse layout flexible. With this, he will have a list of storage types, number of units and the SKU assigned to storage types.