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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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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Last week, on 10th and 11th September, we were joined by 65 clients, influencers and prospects at the impressive Zebra Technologies Experience Centre in Bourne End for our annual warehouse management software (WMS) user event, the HighJump UK Elevate Roadshow 2018. Unlike in previous years, this time around the event was predominantly led by our
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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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Measuring Warehouse KPIs: Cycle Count Accuracy Blog Post by Claire Kerr This is the fifth post in our series examining how to measure 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. book your free consultation What does
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Measuring Warehouse KPIs: Pick Performance. Blog Post by Claire Kerr This is the fourth in a seven-part 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. speak to an advisor What does pick performance
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Each year, Balloon One holds an event for customers using HighJump warehouse management systems – and it’s also open to those considering HighJump solutions too. This year, we’ve scaled things up a bit, and have teamed up with both HighJump and Zebra – a supplier of warehouse scanners and printers – to bring you a
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