Distribution Center

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

Few distribution center managers have the luxury of excess warehouse space that can be tapped whenever needed. Certainly the vast majority of DC personnel would claim they have a shortage rather than a surplus of space.

Storage and inventory control processes include the activities related to holding material and the processes of counting and transacting the material as it moves through the warehouse.

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

Getting your distribution center ready for the next peak season is in some ways a matter of recognizing that what doesn’t kill us makes us stronger. To put it another way, now’s the time to learn from your mistakes and begin to formulate a plan for the next holiday season.

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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.

Question: I am trying to select a new catalog management system that also includes warehouse functionality. After reading the brochures, talking with vendors, and participating in Webinars with them, how do I make sense of all the information?

Being a supervisor in a fast-paced distribution center is a lot like being an airline pilot: Success is all in the approach.