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Calling ‘order’ on Inbound Goods

Logistics Business Magazine

With floor areas measured in hectares, carrying tens of thousands of SKUs to supply the daily needs of 67 million people, the distribution centres of our major food retailers are surely the textbook case for extensive and profitable automation. Dependence on manual operations is looking increasingly unsustainable.

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How To Survive The Decline in Warehousing Capacity

Blue Grace Logistics

As global supply chains continue to be disrupted, businesses have opted to increase inventory through forward distribution to accommodate e-commerce demand. For example, warehouses can take advantage of the Automated Storage and Retrieval Systems (ASRS) to recover up to 85% of existing floor space when compared to standard shelving.

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New design for SSI Cuby shuttle system

Logistics Business Magazine

Batch sizes of individual products, a particularly wide product range, short order processing times and omnichannel distribution – these are the challenges many companies in industry and trade must face. A conveying system, for example, connects the storage with goods-to-person work stations.

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Cost Reduction in Supply Chains by Opportunity and by Design

Logistics Bureau

Goods inspection is an example. Production of customised product packaging may be done by the product manufacturer, but possibly at a distribution centre too. Thus, the purchasing team may try to reduce unit prices, without thinking about batch sizes or delivery frequency, causing inventory levels to rise.

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Lessons from “The Goal” for Optimizing Warehouse Operations

Logistics Viewpoints

In our picking example, you would begin by analyzing the entire warehouse to identify where the bottleneck or constraint occurs. They address these by maximizing up-time, by examining and optimizing batch sizes, and by moving quality control stations’ position in the workflow to before the constraints.