Category: Warehouse Management
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.
Globalization’s Impact on your Warehouse
Globalization has caused the world to shrink and most of us in one way or another do business with individuals across the globe. Developing a global perspective is an important aspect of building a global network which can be extremely helpful to your personal and career goals. Recognize that building a global network requires commitment, …
Warehouse Inventory Control Ideas
The Pros and Cons of Inventory control. 4 approaches to inventory control are examined: memory, fixed locations, zoning and full random inventory tracking. How to organize a warehouse and create product location addresses.
Reduce Warehouse Labor Costs – Warehouse Efficiency
How do I reduce labor costs in my warehouse? This article looks at ways to reduce costs by looking at warehousing processes. Counting the steps it takes to store and retrieve a pallet from the pallet rack or pick an order allows you to determine if there is a more lean approach to your distribution center. Read more about reducing costs here.
Reduce Labor through Standardization in the Warehouse
What does it mean to have standardization in a warehouse? Without sacrificing flexibility, standardization is a lean principle that asks that processes are easily repeatable, easy to train, easy to improve upon. With less variety, less customization is required. Who customizes? People do; so standardization means better organization and less labor. What areas of the …
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