If you import goods, bonded warehouses can save you money. When you exports goods to Europe, you usually have to pay a tariff on those goods. By storing goods in a bonded warehouse, you can delay payments of the duties until the goods are released from the warehouse. In other words, bonded warehouses improve a company’s cash flow.
For example, consider an American company with a bonded warehouse in… Continue reading
When companies implement a Warehouse Management System (WMS), the primary payback they receive typically comes from improved labor productivity, and wave management functionality is often critical to generating that productivity. Wave management is based on intelligently grouping a batch of warehouse activities together for later release to the floor. This batch of work (or “wave”) will be executed concurrently in a particular set period of time.
When I think… Continue reading
HighJump Software (an ARC client) held its Innovation 2010 User Conference in Scottsdale, Arizona this week. HighJump sells solutions in three areas: Supply Chain Execution (WMS, MES, and TMS); Direct Store Delivery; and EDI, after its recent acquisition of TrueCommerce. However, when I think of HighJump, I think of the flexible Supply Chain Execution software company. That notion was reinforced at the conference, where I heard user… Continue reading
(Editor’s Note: This is the final part of a series on warehouse labor standards. Click here to read Parts 1-5).
The most granular labor standards are based on time studies or predetermined time systems (PTS). MSD and MOST, in turn, are the two most prevalent methodologies used to develop PTS time standards for the warehouse.
I talked to subject matter experts at several consulting and software organizations… Continue reading
I’ve been hearing about hospitals implementing warehouse management systems (WMS) in France and Canada. This is a new industry for WMS. So, when Oracle (an ARC client) mentioned that The Ottawa Hospital (TOH) was a WMS customer, I asked if I could interview them. Oracle put me in contact with Cameron Love, Vice President of Planning, Support Services and Clinical Programs at TOH, and with Joanne Read, Director… Continue reading
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