THIS is Why Businesses Need Warehouse Management (Part 6 of 6)

We close out our series of posts on WHY businesses need WMS by highlighting Aberdeen Group’s conclusions about the place of WMS technology – that is bar-coded scanning and automated warehouse management systems. In terms of technology in its surveyed Best in Class firms, 88% of those firms used a defined, computer-based warehouse management solution [...]

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THIS is Why Businesses Need Warehouse Management (Part 5 of 6)

This is our second-to-last post derived from a report compiled from the findings of over 200 companies by the Aberdeen Group, available here, and titled “On-Time and Under Budget: Maximizing Profits with Efficient Warehouse Management.”  In our previous four posts (starting here) we talked in Post #1 about the competitive pressures that are forcing today’s [...]

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THIS is Why Businesses Need Warehouse Management (Part 4 of 6)

So faced with the competitive pressure to reduce overall expenses… what do the best companies actually do to render warehouse improvements?  As hinted at earlier, Aberdeen Research took a “PACE” – framed approach, as illustrated in the table below:   According to their research, the Number One answer among top-performing companies was to adopt more [...]

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THIS is Why Businesses Need Warehouse Management (Part 3 of 6)

The other way we mentioned in the previous post to calculate cost savings gained from improved warehouse management is to look at the gains from just a one percent improvement in picking accuracy. (Recall that our data is derived from an Aberdeen Group research report on warehouse operations at over 200 companies, completed just last [...]

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THIS is Why Businesses Need Warehouse Management (Part 2 of 6)

In our previous post (read it first here before you read this one), we outlined the proposition that improving your warehouse management via improved delivery capabilities with fewer mistakes will yield reduced expenses.  And that happened to be the Aberdeen research study group’s number one competitive pressure.  (In the land of flat revenues, reduced costs [...]

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THIS is Why Businesses Need Warehouse Management (Part 1 of 6)

Early this year the well known research firm Aberdeen Group released an extensive report on the financial impact of improved warehouse management.  Their findings were eye-opening, released in a report titled “On-Time and Under Budget: Maximizing Profits with Efficient Warehouse Management.”  A firm named Ryzex has made the full report available and you can download [...]

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Getting Started with a Warehouse Management System (WMS) [Part IV of IV]

Concluding this series of articles… We addressed the critical importance of planning a WMS deployment from the outset.  We then covered the basic hardware components and their associated costs.  Finally, there is the issue of software. Like planning, this one’s too big to try to cover in a simple blog post.  The idea, again, is [...]

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