Case Study: Jellycat gets integrated ERP and WMS. Jellycat is benefiting from seamless integration of its SAP Business One software with its Accellos wireless warehouse management system (now known as K.Motion WMS) from Balloon One. The system has revolutionized Jellycat’s warehouse operation, eliminating data duplication and paper documentation and by providing accurate stock management. The […]
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5 Ways to Improve Your Picking Performance. Blog Post by Claire Kerr A company’s logistics performance is key to distribution success. A well-functioning warehouse is one that efficiently receives and stores stock, picks and packs it speedily and accurately, and then distributes it to customers quickly. But how can you make your warehouse operations more
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H. N. Nuttall is a family-owned business that supplies dry, chilled and frozen foods to the catering industry. Based in Manchester, the distributor supplies restaurants, hotels, care homes, hospitals, schools, colleges and other venues across England and Wales. Inefficient route scheduling and no proof of delivery Running its own fleet of around 20 trucks, H.
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What is slotting? Slotting is the method of identifying what product lines are ideally placed where within the warehouse. Essentially, it’s all about ensuring that fast-moving products are located in the most accessible areas, and that slow-moving ones are placed more out of the way. Having the highly accessed items in the best locations speeds
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Task interleaving is an advanced productivity strategy that can be employed in a warehouse – via a warehouse management system (WMS) – to improve operational efficiency. What is task interleaving? Task interleaving is the process of combining different tasks – interleaving them – on a single trip within the warehouse. So perhaps a warehouse worker
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This post focuses on stock turn. This is the seventh and final article in a series looking at measuring KPIs for warehouse operations. We recently outlined the 7 KPIs to track for warehouse improvement. This series takes each KPI and examines it in more detail. What does stock turn measure? Stock turn – or stock
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Although many warehouse operations make use of pallets for their storage and handling, there are some products which are simply not appropriate for palletisation. Due to their size or required handling procedure, non-palletised storage systems are needed. Here’s an explanation of the types of non-palletised storage systems. Small Item Storage Systems One of the most
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This is the sixth in our blog posts series that looks at measuring KPIs for warehouse operations. Having recently outlined the 7 KPIs to track for warehouse improvement, this series takes each KPI and examines it more thoroughly. What does space utilisation measure? Space utilisation is an inventory measure. It shows the percentage of bins
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Continuing our series of posts on logistics digital disruption, we turn attention now to disruption in the grocery market and how the buying experience is changing for consumers. This comes thanks to solutions such as AmazonFresh and the Ocado Smart Platform (OSP). Whilst the Smart Platform seeks to revolutionise the grocery industry through the use
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Most warehouse operations use palletised racking. Pallets are convenient, easy to move and universally used. With many goods arriving on pallets, it makes sense to continue to use them within the warehouse, using palletised racking storage rather than transferring goods onto other types of storage. Palletised storage accommodates the pallets directly, allowing them to be
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