Omnichannel fulfilment is all about delivering a seamless shopping experience. Whether your customers are ordering via an app, your website, by phone or buying in-store, they expect the same service levels and overall experience. Distributors rely on a sophisticated interplay of systems and processes to manage everything. There’s the warehouse and stock, the multiple sales […]
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If you ship by road – which most businesses do – then full truckload shipping is one of the methods that you may benefit from. Used in the right circumstances, full truckload shipping – often called FTL shipping – can work out cheaper and be more efficient than other methods of road haulage. What is
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Using a WMS is the obvious choice for any operation that’s serious about its warehousing and distribution. ERP vendors will tell you that their warehouse management add-on are all you need to run your operation. But is that really the case? Would a dedicated, best-of-breed WMS be better? Here’s our take on the best-of-breed versus
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The elimination of waste in the warehouse is paramount for all distribution operations. Wasted staff journeys, wasted delivery miles, overstocking of goods. All of these add to your costs and therefore reduce your profit. Waste covers many things. We’ve previously looked at the best picking methods to reduce wasted staff travel; and how to optimise
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Mobile printing in the warehouse allows operatives to print out wherever they are. Whether they are printing labels, barcodes, receipts or tickets, your workers aren’t restricted to a certain location when they want to print. Instead, you can equip them to be more mobile and to print on demand. A range of printers is available
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Wearable devices make undertaking warehouse tasks easier. All manner of wearable technology is available: headsets with microphones for voice picking; computers for receiving instructions and data entry; and body-worn scanners for logging items when picking or undertaking cycle counts and stock checks. How do wearable devices differ from standard rugged hardware? Wearable devices themselves are
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Voice picking in the warehouse brings many time-saving and efficiency benefits. It was once the preserve of large warehouse operations. Over time, though, technology has improved and prices have come down. So it’s now very well suited for all sizes of distribution and warehouse operations. What is voice picking? Using a headset, voice picking directs
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For Balloon’s charity challenge 2019, a couple of weekends ago, a group of staff took on the Welsh Three Peaks Challenge in aid of Alzheimer’s Society. The success of last year’s challenge to climb Ben Nevis gave the team a real boost in the run up to the weekend. Most of those from last year
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In the Gartner 2019 Magic Quadrant *, HighJump has now been rated as a Leader for warehouse management systems. The company has improved its positioning, having previously been rated as a Challenger. The company said, “To HighJump, the results exemplify the company’s dedication and ability to empower businesses worldwide with the connected and automated supply
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The emergence of warehouse robots and automation causes both excitement and concern in the logistics industry. A couple of years ago, Elon Musk said that robots would disrupt jobs, because they “will be able to do everything better than us. … I mean all of us”. And he predicted that it would be transport operators
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