Posts Tagged ‘warehouse’

Organizing your warehouse in 2021

Organizing your warehouse in 2021 Every single day, the warehouse is where the action is. It’s where shipments are received, customer orders are pulled, packed and shipped and inventory is monitored. On top of that, many warehouses perform additional tasks like product packaging. As such, many of a business’s most essential functions flow through the […]

How to Maximize Warehouse Space Utilization

How to Maximize Warehouse Space Utilization Business is booming, you’re getting a lot of sales, inventory moves quickly, but you’re running out of space in warehouse. What should you do next? As previously discussed, the best way to fix this issue would be to rent/get another warehouse. But that can be too expensive sometimes, or […]

Fulfillment centres vs. warehouses

What’s the difference between fulfillment centres and warehouses? The world of supply chain processes is quickly evolving. Nowadays, you cannot just have your entire business running from a warehouse. We can honestly say, that the days of handling all needs in a warehouse are both inefficient and fail to meet customers’ basic expectation for an […]

The importance of labeling your products

The importance of labeling your products Labeling is one of the most important aspects of warehouse management. A warehouse provides a central location for receiving, storing and distributing products. As each shipment arrives, responsibility for the goods transfers to warehouse personnel and products need to be identified. Then, they have to be sorted and dispatched […]

Distribution centres vs. warehouses – what’s the difference?

Distribution centres vs. warehouses – what’s the difference? Warehouses, distribution centres…. They are all the same, right? Large spaces that have thousands of products stored inside them, with many works running around the place… Yeah, but not necessarily, as there are some key differences between distribution centres are warehouses. They are more different than you’d […]

Christmas is almost here – is your warehouse ready?

With the holiday season and Christmas right around the corner, if you haven’t yet prepared for the ramp-up in business, now is the time. Some companies do up to 50% of their business in the last quarter of the year (Black Friday, Cyber Monday and of course – Christmas). If your business is a seasonal […]

Save tons of money on inventory with stock rotation

All business owners hate to have obsolete or expired stock laying around in their warehouses and in order to avoid money-losing situations stock rotation is a life saver. If you’re wondering what stock rotation actually is, it’s the process of organizing inventory to mitigate the stock loss caused by expiration or obsolescence. It’s a practice […]