THE SUPPLY CHAIN BLOG
Warehouse Optimization: Maximizing Space Utilization and Reducing Costs
In the world of supply chain management, warehouses play a crucial role in storing and distributing goods efficiently. However, many companies struggle with limited space and rising operational costs, which can hinder productivity and profitability. The key to overcoming these challenges lies in warehouse optimization. By maximizing space utilization and reducing costs, businesses can unlock significant benefits and gain a competitive edge in the market. In this post, we will explore practical strategies and actionable tips to optimize your warehouse operations and get the most out of your warehouse or distribution center.
Warehouse Automation: Where to Start?
In the days of the pandemic (and even pre-pandemic), the trends and challenges facing the warehouse industry are clear: difficulty finding labor. As such, exploring automation for warehouses has never made more sense. However, it is a daunting task to understand and explore how to start. Below, we explore basic options to explore warehouse automation.
5 Supply Chain Trends for 2021
This past year has created many new challenges for everyone, causing consumers and companies to adapt. We expect some of the supply chain changes to be temporary but that many of them will have a lasting impact on the supply chain industry going forward. Below, we discuss some of the trends that we expect to see in 2021.
How to Modernize Your Warehouse/Distribution Center: Part 2
In Part 2 of our process to modernize warehouses, we discuss the systems and automated confirmations necessary to eliminate human error and increase efficiency.
How to Modernize your Warehouse/Distribution Operation, Part 1
For companies to stay successful over a long period of time, they must constantly be improving and changing with the times. This is especially true in warehousing and distribution. One of our core competencies at Establish is helping our clients logically and cost-effectively modernize and improve their warehouses and distribution centers. Over the next few weeks, we will be walking you through many of the steps necessary to modernize warehouses, from the most basic operation to a fully automated solution and everywhere in between. We start with two of the most important: Inventory Locations and Product Labeling.
Declining Business: 3 Key Ways to Save in Warehousing Costs
Three ways to help cut warehousing costs to prolong your positive cash flow.
An Often-Overlooked Aspect of any Operation that can be Improved
A client of Establish's was running into some warehouse process problems: the warehouse was not as efficient as it could have been and, with a labor shortage of quality workers, needed to become as efficient as possible. As such, they called Establish and enlisted our help.
The Warehouse Rack Layout Aisle Width Decision
As warehouse consultants, we are fortunate to visit and improve hundreds of distribution operations. The majority, but not all, of the operations require forklifts of some sort. Upon starting my career, one of the things I expected to see in the operations was more standardization of forklift types and, by extension, aisle width. However, that is not the case.