by Jon Schreibfeder | Jul 15, 2018 | Best Practices, Technology, Warehousing
A warehouse management system (WMS) has the potential to minimize an organization’s cost of inventory control. Inventory control is the process of protecting the material that is contained in your warehouse and minimizing the cost of filling orders. The savings...
by Jon Schreibfeder | Jun 15, 2018 | Best Practices
I recently visited the distribution center of a large national hard goods distributor. This company is experiencing a significant problem with the amount of excess inventory in both their distribution center and their 100 store locations. We have to eliminate this...
by Jon Schreibfeder | May 15, 2018 | Best Practices, Warehousing
Your policies and procedures must be enforced in order for you to achieve effective inventory management. Often companies will promote the warehouse employee who knows most about your inventory to the position of warehouse manager. Unfortunately, unless this person is...
by Jon Schreibfeder | Apr 15, 2018 | Best Practices, General, Warehousing
If one of your warehouse employees walks past an item lying in the middle of a warehouse aisle, do they pick it up and put it in its proper location? Do they pretend not to see it? Do they feel they are too busy to deal with it? Do they kick it out of the way? The...
by Jon Schreibfeder | Mar 15, 2018 | Stocking Decisions
Last month we began a discussion of ranking your inventory using three different criteria: Frequency of sale or use (i.e. the number of times the product is requested regardless of the actual quantity requested) Profitability (i.e., annual gross profit dollars) Cost...
