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One way I have seen is that the companies engage part time temporary staffs in the warehouse. These staffs will be helping out to do picking and packi...
Agreed. Additionally, after the contractual period is over, if there is a change in customer for the same space, the automation installed may not be s...
It's a practice by manufacturer to postpone the changes to as near the consumption point as possible. A classical textbook example is the laptop/pri...
1PL – A party who requires the inventory to be transported from one location to another. 2PL – A carrier who owns the transportation assets. Example...
There may not be a standard across all the warehouses, even if the processes are similar. For example, putaway is a common process in all the wa...
Hello Sarah! Thanks for joining the community. Great that you have experiences in the parcel delivery industry! Let's learn from each other. Feel free...
The decision for JIT will impact the warehousing operations. For example, if the management decides that the volume for storage to be reduced (reducin...
You can use the below formula as a guide. To provide an estimation. Dock Space Requirement = roundup [(number of loads received daily * hours re...
Again, this depends on the timing of the day. At certain period, the inbound is busiest. At other time, it is the outbound. But the breakdown in ter...
Paper Shelving
Lifting of heavy loads
I had some discussion previously with warehousing staffs in developed countries such as Japan. They approached the topic of automation carefully. In d...
One major difference is that ecommerce warehouses have a lot of picking and sorting activities compared to B2B warehouses. B2B warehouses are to fulfi...
There are certain sites which provide a game to show the bullwhip effect.