From the moment a warehouse receives a shipment of items, a series of procedures slowly start moving. Even if your warehouse doesn’t have a specific term for this period, the process is known as goods-in-process and refers to any item that hasn’t landed at its destination yet. Even if your warehouse doesn’t manufacture its Read the full article…
It can feel like no matter what happens, there’s bound to be some mistakes along the way in item processing for any warehouse. It’s a simple fact of the business—due to human error, computer error, or both, sometimes order errors can start at the beginning of the supply chain during receiving. These errors affect every Read the full article…
When it comes to managing warehouse expenses and overhead, too many people default to cutting workforce & labor instead of looking elsewhere. Cutting labor can lead to big problems down the road if business starts to ramp up, not to mention disrupting the lives of your former employees getting displaced. Instead of looking to your Read the full article…
If you’ve spent any time in the warehouse industry these days, you’ve probably heard someone use the phrase ‘logistics parks’—but what are they, and how could they help you? As you might’ve guessed from the name, a ‘logistics park’ is a gathering of businesses that all deal in logistics. Similar to industrial parks or office Read the full article…
In the world of warehousing, there are a lot of factors that can impact the end consumer along the way. Item costs, manufacturing time, shipping options—there’s a lot of small factors that can begin to pile up and affect the consumer’s experience purchasing from your warehouse. One of the biggest ones, though, and one that Read the full article…
Every warehouse has those small items that you just can’t quite count easily. Whether it’s tiny electronics parts, small items sold in a package together (like individual nuts and bolts for hardware), or simply something requiring bulk storage, small “uncountable” items can be a hassle in any warehouse. It simply isn’t productive or feasible to Read the full article…
Studies have shown that warehouse space is at something of a low these days, and it’s forced warehouse managers and supply chain specialists to get creative. A number of smaller sub-industries have begun to take shape and grow in the current landscape of on demand, ecommerce shipping and order fulfillment in order to help warehouses Read the full article…
Order errors are maybe the one part of warehousing that’s just as frustrating for the warehouse as it is the customer. Nobody likes their order to show up incorrect—from retailers that need their correct product allocation to sell back to consumers, to individual customers that were expecting a certain product. At worst it can lose Read the full article…
Maintaining a warehouse can get awfully expensive, can’t it? There’s a lot of moving parts, a lot of inventory to manage, and a lot of costs that can suddenly crop up. While this all sounds like part and parcel of any business (and it absolutely is, no matter what you do), there are always little Read the full article…
Between the rise of ecommerce and the changing landscape of on-demand delivery services, the term ‘adaptable’ has come into vogue for warehouses of any size or any industry. It makes sense on its face—due to the number of options customers have for getting products delivered to them as quickly as possible, most warehouses could benefit Read the full article…