Inventory accuracy is a common concern among my clients. Here are some tips to help improve the accuracy of the inventory within your facility:

A brightly lit facility helps reduce fatigue and reduce errors. A bright facility also helps foster a friendlier and more orderly work environment.

Software systems range from very simple systems that can be made fully functional in a day to those that require very careful planning and a year or more to get working. As an operations manager, you need to select a solution that is manageable and that your staff and your company’s departmental resources can readily support.

In almost every case, extraordinary distribution centers are distinguished by the quality of their staff. The better your people, the less money you spend

Many of you are asking yourself, “How can I make the biggest positive impact in 2007?” The options are endless. To help you determine where you should invest your own mental energy and the energy of your team, ask yourself some focused questions:

If you are like most distribution center managers, you know that your existing operation has a number of unsolved challenges and problems that your people grapple with on a daily, weekly, and seasonal basis.

Are you running out of space to store pallets? Do you have peak times when you simply don’t have a place to put all your skids? If so, consider these