There are hundreds of warehouses in the UK, utilising millions of square feet of storage. Across those facilities, many are making some common warehouse mistakes. Are you? Reliance on paperwork It’s surprising how many warehouse operations still rely so heavily on paperwork. Even very large ecommerce businesses are still printing out picking sheets for their […]
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Waveless picking can speed up your order fulfilment, allowing you to quickly get orders out of the door and delivered to your customers. Rapid turnaround times can help all manner of retailers, distributors and third-party logistics providers to meet ever more demanding customer expectations. Consumers have long been treated to next-day and same-day deliveries by
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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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Picking equipment: person to goods vs goods to person. Blog Post by Claire Kerr With the advancement of robotics technology, the traditional method of picking goods is losing traction. No longer does the picker need to travel to each SKU one by one, but instead goods can be brought to the picker. Of course, there
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Warehouse picking is central to a distribution operation. Cutting the amount of time required to pick orders helps to keep costs down, and to therefore maximise income. In a previous post, we compared batch picking with wave picking. Today, we look at another type of order picking method – zone picking – to understand what
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Order picking is a crucial aspect of warehousing. To minimise costs and to provide good customer service, it’s important that it is done accurately and that the products are accumulated into shipments quickly and in good order. With manual picking operations, it’s important that distributors put in place good systems and practices that allow them
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5 Factors That Affect Your Warehouse Layout Blog Post by Claire Kerr In terms of warehouse layout, your goal is to achieve optimal efficiency and maximise use of the available space so that your warehouse operation functions as effectively and productively as possible. If you get it wrong, orders go out slowly and it can
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