When it comes to supply chain management, anytime you can take discrete pieces of work and group them together intelligently, you have the opportunity to optimize. The more time you have, and the more discrete pieces of work you can group together, the larger the potential savings from optimization.
I recently wrote about waving in the warehouse. Wave management is based on intelligently grouping together a batch of… Continue reading
How can you have a satisfied warehouse workforce, and what does it take to retain them?
That was the focus of a research project conducted by Bryan Edwards, an Assistant Professor in the Department of Management at Oklahoma State University, together with Kevin Gue, an Associate Professor at the Department of Engineering at Auburn University, with funding from the Material Handling Industry of America (MHIA). I spoke to… Continue reading
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
Productivity improvements are based on increases in output per hour. A company can’t improve warehouse productivity to the maximum extent possible if it doesn’t understand the places where time is being lost. So, what are the main sources of productivity losses in the warehouse? Here is how I think about it:
Opportunities for Saving Time in the Warehouse (Click to enlarge)
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