Inventory management: the backbone of every successful warehouse, and occasionally the bane of every warehouse manager’s existence. The constant flow of products in and out of the average warehouse combined with the frequent changes in equipment and operating procedure means that keeping up with inventory can be a full-time job in and of itself, no Read the full article…
The term “KPI” means a lot of things to a lot of people: a crucial way of tracking certain measurements across different warehouse operations, a way to prove to your bosses that your team is getting stuff done, or just a huge pile of forms and spreadsheets you need to fill out that takes up Read the full article…
We’ve all used barcode scanners before, right? Even if you don’t use them in your warehouse, you’ve surely used them to scan a membership card on a gym, check out your groceries, get something from the library, or even used your phone to scan a barcode to check prices (or see if it’s cheaper Read the full article…
Inventory can be a funny thing. It’s the backbone of any retail business, whether business-to-business or customer-facing, and yet it can be one of the biggest drains on profit and income. Even with all of the problems that can arise from items being out-of-stock, maintaining items can bring with it a unique series of expenses Read the full article…
If you’ve worked in product storage, e-commerce, or direct retail, you know one thing to be true: some products are a little more successful than others. Not to be unfair to everything else in your inventory, but it’s a fact of life that not all items will move at the same rates. Despite this Read the full article…
For warehouses that stock a wide range and/or large number of items, cycle counting is becoming an increasingly popular inventory management technique. As opposed to the more traditional method of physical counts (wherein every item in the warehouse is counted at once in a lengthy process), cycle counting is a more frequent and periodic inventory Read the full article…
Warehouse workers are human and all humans are prone to making mistakes every now and then. Even with the best training, mistakes can still happen. But frequent inventory and picking errors can easily add up and result in lost sales, lost productivity, and extra shipping costs, not to mention unhappy customers. As a warehouse manager, Read the full article…
Whether in retail stores, warehouses, or any other business that focuses on moving and storing inventory, there’s always some items that never sell as well as others. Maybe it’s the wrong time of year, maybe people consider it too expensive, maybe it just isn’t an item that people want as much as you were hoping. Read the full article…
Whether you run a warehouse, work in a retail store, or manufacture and distribute your own products, the issue of slow-moving inventory is a problem that can affect many different industries and product types. The fact of the matter is that some products just don’t move as quickly as others, and this can start becoming Read the full article…
In any industry, no matter what you work on or how you distribute your products, proper inventory management is key. You don’t need us to tell you how vital inventory management is to preventing revenue loss and maximizing productivity, but the question always remains – how am I supposed to count all this stuff? Read the full article…