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Spotlight On: The 10 Most Common Pallet Racking Systems

Spotlight On: The 10 Most Common Pallet Racking Systems

Jul 12, 2022 | Article, Logistics, Warehouse

This article, written by Mal Walker, formerly a manager at Logistics Bureau, was first published in the March / April 2018 issue of MHD Supply Chain Solutions. Pallet racking systems pervade the logistics landscape. Scattered across the country in distribution...
What is Slotting and Why is it an Important Productivity Tool?

What is Slotting and Why is it an Important Productivity Tool?

Jul 5, 2022 | Article, Business Improvement, Slotting, Supply Chain, Warehouse

Slotting is the shorthand term for the process of allocating product, (SKU’s), to locations in the Warehouse according to business rules and product characteristics. It is normally restricted to the picking face or on-line locations only however it can impose some...
KPIs for Your Warehouse: How to Choose and Use Them

KPIs for Your Warehouse: How to Choose and Use Them

Jun 28, 2022 | Article, Performance Measurement - KPIs, Warehouse

Is your business one that operates distribution centres and other warehouse facilities to maintain control of inventory? If so, you’re probably engaged in the eternal search to make warehouse processes faster, easier, less expensive, and safer. Indeed, such...
Cost to Serve – A Smarter Way to Improved Supply Chain Profitability

Cost to Serve – A Smarter Way to Improved Supply Chain Profitability

Jun 21, 2022 | Article, Business Improvement, Cost to Serve, Supply Chain

Supply chains are complex entities. Even if you simplify your product range and your upstream suppliers, you still have to deal with the ramifications of diverse customers, their expectations, their location and the logistics needed to meet their requirements. While...
Warehouse Design – Rules of Thumb… And a Checklist

Warehouse Design – Rules of Thumb… And a Checklist

Jun 14, 2022 | Article, Distribution Centre, Distribution Channels, Distribution Network Design, Supply Chain, Warehouse

It’s not uncommon for delegates at our workshops and seminars to ask us to can share our ‘rules of thumb’ on warehouse design. Therefore, we thought we’d put them here in an article, so anyone can refer to them when necessary. We’ve also added a...
The 3 Pillars of Supply Chain Management (And Why Their Alignment Matters)

The 3 Pillars of Supply Chain Management (And Why Their Alignment Matters)

Jun 7, 2022 | Article, Supply Chain, Supply Chain Management, Supply Chain Strategy

Despite the apparent complexities involved in supply chain management, achieving excellence really doesn’t have to be too difficult. Just review and build on our three fundamental pillars of great supply chain management.   In this post, we explain what...
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