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You Know Your WMS Implementation
is Going Bad When:
Over the years I have been
involved with so many WMS
installations I actually stopped
counting. Whether I was there in
the beginning or called in when
all hell was breaking loose, one
thing I have noticed is that
with every implementation there
are signs. Sometimes humorous
(after the fact) and sometimes
not, signs that tell you whether
the implementation is going as
expected. Such As:
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Your inventory is 99%
accurate! “In your salesmen
trunk!”
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One of the consultants you
hired to help begins crying in
front of one of your
terminals!
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Your #1 customer, who is tired
of waiting in will call,
begins picking their own
orders. And you realize they
are faster at it than your
pickers.
[Read
More Signs]
19 Steps to Maintain an Accurate
Inventory!
There are some interesting
things about inventory, that I
am sure everyone knows. Such as:
(1) Distribution inventory
values range between 6% and 20%
of the company’s annual revenue.
(2) An inaccurate inventory
causes several problems: Lost
Sales / Decrease in
Profitability / Lost
Productivity searching for
product. (3) Companies use
inventory as a security blanket
to cover deficiencies in their
warehouse. Learn what you can do
to control your inventory. [Read
Full Text]
Warehouse Management Systems:
Pie in the Sky or a Floating
Bakery?
Many software companies will
tell you about all of the bells
and whistles in their WMS
system. Many will give you
unrealistic ROI expectations.
You have to be able to determine
what is reality and what is "Pie
in the Sky!" Remember whether
you drive a Rolls Royce or a
Hyundai they both use the same
$2.00 gas to get from one place
to another. What fuel you use to
operate your warehouse is up to
you. This White Paper will help
you achieve a successful
outcome. [Read
Full Text]
Selecting and Keeping Warehouse
Personnel
Your customers see you by your
Product guide/newsletter, your
receptionist, inside sales,
outside sales, and visiting your
facility, which they do the
least. But the most important
way they see you, is by the
package that is prepared and
shipped to them by your
warehouse personnel. This means,
that your warehouse is vitally
important to your company’s
success. [Read
Full Text]
This Place Sucks! (What your warehouse employees think about your company and
how to change their perception.)
$9.95 + Shipping and Handling
Time Keepers
or Clock Makers
Right now, you probably have someone hiring and firing warehouse personnel who
has never attended a course on interviewing techniques or labor laws. You
have someone controlling millions of dollars of inventory that could not tell
you the last time they attended a course or read a book about inventory
control. And we wonder why our inventory is so inaccurate. [Read Full Text]
ROI in Your Warehouse
(Real or Imagined)
How can someone legitimately evaluate new software, improvements to a
process, or "RIGHT-SIZE" without some knowledge of what is reality?
[Read Full Text]
Sit
Customer Sit! "How Did
Customers Get So Trained?"
Your customers perception of your company is formed from the packages
that arrive at their receiving dock! What do you think they perceive? [Read
Full Text]
When
You Pay Peanuts You Get
Monkeys
With the job market
being as weak as it is, good
employees are even harder to
find, "Even when they are
sometimes right under our
noses." [Read Full Text]
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