Warehouse Process Optimisation
A great deal of time, effort and cost is expended in infrastructure investment – including the warehouse. Yet operating costs can be many times this figure, so efficient warehouse processes are critical to overall logistics expenditure. This holds true no matter where the warehouse is located, and whether the operation is outsourced or not.
Advice on where to locate a new warehouse is plentiful and of high quality, but it is even more important to look at what goes on within the four walls. Handling deliveries from suppliers includes the entire inbound process and effectively feeds the rest of the warehouse oeration. Decisions also have to be made on whether a WMS is needed and how it shoud operate. Picking and despatch are critical features of customer service and efficiency.
Yet Unipart Logistics have skills and methodologies to make the most of any operation, including managing and motivating the staff without whom any warehouse would grind to a halt. With Unipart Way procedures for understanding processes, mapping them, eliminating waste and training staff to improve, there are many examples of how Unipart Logistics have achieved step changes in specific warehouse processes and the efficient operation of the whole distribution centre.