Warehouse management systems are complicated and labor-intensive to implement, with long timelines and few dates available for go live. As a result, merchants often decide to take their implementations live with only the essentials in place and a long list of
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Gary Meyer, senior director of operations at nutrition products merchant Herbalife, offers a couple of tips for when your company is considering a major purchase of equipment or software for your warehouse.
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By automating your distribution center, you can provide substantial benefits and significant labor savings. Unfortunately, if you make the wrong automation choices, you can burn a hole in your wallet getting little, if any, significant improvement over what could be done with traditional solutions. Here are six questions you need to ask before you take the automation leap.
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Steve Edelstein, CEO of brand management/marketing consultancy The Logical Step, companies must, first and foremost, plan ahead and anticipate minimum volume and potential maximum volume of sales during their holiday season.
Staffing the warehouse for the fourth quarter rush isn
To hire the correct amount of order pickers, packers, and shippers you need to understand two things: Product demand/sales forecast, and how many orders your warehouse can ship per labor hour. Using these metrics, you can determine how many people you need to get all the orders out the door on time. Then you just need to hire those quality applicants.