Tag: Warehousing
Supply chain management in India
I am planning to write a few posts about supply chain management in India. I am in the country working with a local client for a couple of weeks, back for the first time since my 6 weeks living in Delhi earlier in 2010/11. This is a very exciting topic, and though I have been […]
Categories: Supply Chain News and Comment.
Tags: Distribution, emerging economies, India, logistics, logistics infrastructure, Warehousing
Comments: 4
50 ways to make your warehouse seem bigger
There’s a commercial profile of Aricia Limited in this month’s Logistics and Transport Focus – I’d not heard of them, but it appears to be a micro-consultancy in the supply chain field, run by Kirsten Tisdale who wrote the Focus article. Kirsten’s website has a one-page document available to download entitled 50 ways to make […]
Categories: Supply Chain Resources.
Tags: operational improvement, operations, space, storage, supply chain management, Warehousing
Comments: 2
What level of availability should my warehouse give?
This is a question that arises with frightening regularity. Although we generally want both availability and stock turn to continue improving over the long term (and there are various methods of achieving that), nonetheless there are some theoretical limits to those numbers, together with a requirement to decide the availability target for right now. Let’s […]
Categories: Thought Pieces.
Tags: availability, customer service, DRP, Inventory Management, storage, Strategy, supply chain design, Warehousing
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Storage capacity calculator – try it out
I have added a permanent page containing a storage capacity calculator that I have put together. This little widget is based on something I knocked up years ago to aid warehouse planning and design. Please follow the link under the site banner or click here for the storage capacity calculator.
Categories: Supply Chain Resources.
Tags: calculator, module capacity, operational improvement, space, storage, storage optimisation, warehouse design, warehouse planning, Warehousing
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Lean and inventory misconceptions
I was interested to find an article in this month’s Logistics & Transport Focus headed “No more lean times: why inventory is not waste and warehouses add value”. The author, Steve Sordy, has chosen a title that is a kind of teasing of the more dogmatic of lean devotees – British culture has little patience […]
Categories: Thought Pieces.
Tags: distribution centre, Inventory Management, Kanban, Lean, Little's Law, pull, Warehousing, waste, Womack & Jones
Comments: 2