{"id":1493,"date":"2019-02-18T07:00:47","date_gmt":"2019-02-18T07:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jainoncor.com\/blog\/?p=1493"},"modified":"2024-03-20T11:19:50","modified_gmt":"2024-03-20T05:49:50","slug":"8-tips-improving-warehouse-management","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jainoncor.com\/blog\/8-tips-improving-warehouse-management\/","title":{"rendered":"8 Tips For Improving Warehouse Management"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Saving time, gaining productivity, efficiency: improving the management of your warehouse is now a key factor for companies in their race for performance.\u00a0 The continued growth of e-commerce and the multiplication of orders to be shipped each day call for optimal management of the supply chain.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Following 8 tips are helpful to improve the management of your warehouse.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>1 &#8211; Choose the logistics strategy adapted to your needs<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A small warehouse that ships 50 orders a day does not follow the same strategy as a warehouse that has to deal with more than 1,000 daily shipments.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Identify your needs; evaluate your warehouse and the number of orders that go out before establishing your logistics strategy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>2 &#8211; Improve the working environment of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jainoncor.com\/warehouse-godowns-in-delhi-ncr.php\">warehouse for rent in Delhi<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Improving the working environment of your employees allows you to:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>Limit unnecessary travel: by optimizing the addressing of products on the shelves to facilitate logistic picking routes;<\/li>\n<li>Limit the carrying of heavy loads: by equipping your warehouse with conveyors, forklifts or pallet trucks. You will avoid the risk of an accident at work and will take away a lot of hard work from your employees.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Investing in quality equipment is also a significant option in improving the working environment: a high-performance WMS, barcode readers, screens, etc., will make life easier for team members and lower the Logistic rate errors.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jainoncor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/warehouse-view.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1494 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jainoncor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/warehouse-view.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"850\" height=\"355\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jainoncor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/warehouse-view.jpg 850w, https:\/\/www.jainoncor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/warehouse-view-300x125.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.jainoncor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/warehouse-view-768x321.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>3 &#8211; Structuring and ordering warehouse space<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Good use of space is paramount to not transforming your warehouse into a &#8220;battlefield.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">To structure the space, you can:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>Establish a numbering of all products, so-called addressing, and establish logistic road paths that will quickly lead to the desired product;<\/li>\n<li>Delineate storage and work areas: overstock areas, store areas, picking areas, arrival and shipment areas, conveyor areas, etc.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>4 &#8211; Specialize the tasks of each<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The more professional the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jainoncor.com\/warehouse-godowns-in-delhi-ncr.php\"><strong>warehouse for rent in Noida <\/strong><\/a>becomes, the more the tasks of the team members become clearer. And the more employees have a good knowledge of their tasks, the faster they go.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">To divide the tasks of each, spread them to different areas of the warehouse: picking, order preparation, arrival, shipping, packing, postage, etc.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>5 &#8211; Establish a zone of high turnover stocks<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In every warehouse, there are products with a high turnover, those which are the most ordered and therefore solicited by the team members.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It is therefore recommended to create a special stock area for these products, a &#8220;store&#8221; close to the arrival area and the packing\/shipping area.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>6 &#8211; Organize products in logistics class<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">To improve the management of your warehouse, think of classifying your goods according to their specificities:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>Heavy or bulky products (which require dedicated and technical handling).<\/li>\n<li>Fresh products.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Customizable products (that transit from the storage space to the manufacturing area to finish in the packaging area).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This organization will save you time during the logistics flow (receiving orders, picking, sending orders).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>7 &#8211; Using the cross-docking technique<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This technique aims to reduce the movement of products and improve the productivity of the teams: concretely, this consists of passing goods from arrival to departure without going through the stock.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Cross-docking works, for example, for the shipment of pending orders: at the supplier&#8217;s delivery, the goods can go directly to the shipping area. Deadlines and displacements are thus reduced.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>8 &#8211; Focus on the preparation of similar products<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Very important, these preparations can save picking time: if the analysis of the orders reveals the presence of the same product, you will gain to prepare them at the same time and avoiding the coming and going of picking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saving time, gaining productivity, efficiency: improving the management of your warehouse is now a key factor for companies in their race for performance.\u00a0 The continued growth of e-commerce and the multiplication of orders to be shipped each day call for optimal management of the supply chain. 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