Jul 22, 2022 | Performance Measurement - KPIs, Videos, Vlogs, Warehouse
What are your performance metrics, and how do you know what good target should you achieve? Here’s John Monck, our resident warehouse consultant, to shed his thoughts. Related articles on this topic have appeared throughout our website, check...
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...
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...
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...
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...
May 31, 2022 | Article, Distribution Centre, Distribution Channels, Distribution Network Design, Supply Chain, Warehouse
Warehouse and distribution centre (DC) design is a fascinating and absorbing topic, but alas, is often misunderstood. Regrettably, few people fully understand the discipline of warehouse design and because of this, literally thousands of facilities are...
