Warehouse operations improvement
Warehouse plays a very crucial role within the supply chain of the organization. In most cases, a warehouse is the last touchpoint before the product reaches the customer and thereby an important touchpoint in the supply chain which impacts the customer experience and service fill.
Operation improvement of a warehouse is four-pronged:
- Safety
Space
Flow
Handling
“A warehouse with excellence in operations will ensure top class customer service fills and efficient / reliable product storage and distribution at the right cost.”
– Alvis Lazarus
Key services within warehouse operations improvement:
Delivering OPTIMIZED warehouse space through,
– Maximum cubic space utilization
– Right Storage Design through ‘Design for Every Part’
– Optimum Inventory
– Removing all the inefficiencies being carried forward.
Key Insights
- Space Optimization does not mean that we have to invest huge capital; The first step would be to effectively use our existing resources to their full potential.
- Through a Value Stream Map, we map the Process Flow and ensure all the Process Related Issues (Bottlenecks) are fixed.
- After this, we do the ‘Design for Each Part’ through Concepting; Basis that we do that Storage Design for Cubic Space Utilization.
Improving Warehouse Productivity through,
– Process Mapping, VSM – establishing the expected Throughput & TAKT
– Detailed Work Study & Analysis of Tasks
– Process & Work Instruction – Training & Change Management
– Process Controls
Key Insights
- Process In-efficiencies will not only hamper the Business through Delays, Overtime, Damages, and Missing stocks, it will also negatively impact Customer Service Levels.
- Detailed work-study and process mapping will pin-point all the process issues and we can drive this towards a fix.
- We do a Throughput Analysis and Action Planning, to make the Warehouse agile and flexible.
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