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For putaway and order pick, some warehouses will use VNA (Very Narrow Aisle) MHE and reach truck. There's also the pallet jack and power pallet truc...

One thing to note is that nowadays, the ecommerce spike is many fold increase compared to the normal days. In US and Europe, Thanksgiving and Christ...

Another option is to outsource the warehousing part to 3PL. This means using the 3PL's space and manpower. It comes with a cost, but eliminate the hea...

Relook at the operating hours? Some operations have high overtime cost. May be justifiable to have a change in working hours. Explore the order ful...

May need to consider freight related cost as well if operations involves that.

One of the challenging matter is to convince the staffs to follow the new schedule.

We need to know what type of MHE operations is using. In theory, the aisle width should be wide enough for the MHE to move around. For example, in t...

Not forgetting, there's also another practice called delayed differentiation.

Main objective is to be efficient and reduce those non-value-adding activities. Which happens often in operations. For example, while a picker i...

Logistics and supply chain are used interchangeably often. Same goes for warehousing and operations.

You are right. Reach trucks do require lesser aisle space and are able to reach higher than compared to counter balance. If the warehouse ceiling is h...

Not really. B2B warehouses normally move the inventory in and out by pallets. So you will be looking at trucks and containers. Incoming inventory ...

It depends. Automation is supposed to increase the productivity and efficiency of the operations in general. This works especially well if the process...

Will be good if there is a report which shows the details such as the number of bays, pallet locations, rows. Also, if there's a list that shows t...

Pallet racking is used to utilize the air space in the warehouse. Rather than placing all the pallets on the floor and wasting the air space, pallet r...