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Making your warehouse more efficient is the main goal of nearly every company. Taking inventory, ensuring the right inventory goes to the right place, finding what you need, and working more efficiently are crucial to the success of a manufacturing company.

Workstations are an excellent tool to help your manufacturing plant become more efficient, work smoother, and reduces the amount of shrink in your warehouses. When you can provide the right tools for the job, your company is more likely to succeed. Here are five factors that provide flawless fulfillment for your warehouse. 

Whether you’re a large company or just starting out, one of the most important parts of your business is your supply chain. Most of the time, if your chain is not stable or reliable, then things will start to fall apart quickly, meaning that you need to take active steps to ensure that that doesn’t happen. With that in mind, here are some proven strategies you can adopt to strengthen your supply chain and make sure that things run as smoothly as possible. Best of all, each of these strategies will work no matter how big your company is or how long the supply chain may be.

Early concepts of 3-D printing have been around since the late 1980s. In recent years, 3-D printing, or additive manufacturing, really took off thanks to mobile technology. Designs for products happen on computers, and then files can upload to smartphones, tablet computers and other connected devices. These devices include 3-D printers that have wireless capabilities. 

How does 3-D printing affect your supply chain? In general, it makes your supply chain more streamlined and efficient. That, in turn, saves you money. Here’s how that happens.

A company is only as successful as it’s most important asset, it’s people. The cycle of hiring, training, and promoting from within are the goals of each human resources department. An important qualification must be made here however. Successful managers are not interested in having a “Now Hiring” advertisement up throughout the fiscal year.

With companies such as Amazon and Walmart continuing to strive in the direction of supply-chain technological advancements, it is worth a consideration of where this is leading warehousing. The focus is not so much on what these two companies are doing as it is the startups and their innovations.

This is not to discredit 2 of the “leaders of the pack”, instead we will look closely at 10 startups who will potentially change the face of warehousing as we know it today. The funding that is driving these startups demonstrates how prevalent the products and services they offer will become.

Setting up a warehouse can seem like an impossible task, especially if you’ve never had to design one before. There are some things you need to know before installing all the parts and moving in the employees. If you’re thinking about designing a warehouse, you should consider things like the location, and the design of the interior. You want to make sure everything is the right place to maximize production, and prevent accidents. Before you run out to design your warehouse, here are some things you should consider. 

Workers who are comfortably and appropriately dressed to handle job tasks will be more productive and happier at work. One of the most important parts of an order picker's wardrobe is his or her footwear.

Proper work shoes will allow order pickers to maximize their potential daily workload. The best work shoes will also be safer and help workers to avoid accidents that could potentially sidetrack them from getting work done.

In the warehouse and logistics industries, productivity is king. Every step of every process can be broken down and measured to ensure that the client is getting the most for their investment, the customer is happy with the products they receive and the warehouse staff are reaching their maximum potential because they use a warehouse cart with portable power.

At least, all these factors should be measureable and regularly checked. In the increasingly analytical, technical world of today, any company not hitting all cylinders will soon be left behind for a more efficient alternative.

The digital age that we live and work in provides each of us with a host of easier ways to get the daily ins and outs accomplished. This, of course, includes the day in the life of a warehouse manager and employee. From the receiving dock, to the lift operator putting the goods away, the picker, and the outbound department, WiFi has virtually eliminated the paper trail. 

This does not mean that WiFi does not present a unique set of challenges in the warehouse environment. What are the difficulties that can arise with WiFi in the warehouse, and is there a solution?

Most people, regardless of the industry they are in, are fearful of two prospects. They are change and staying the same. A paradox of sorts, and confusing to management who have developed a growth mindset.

When presented with the idea of a lean operation, rather than the status quo, most team members, and some members of management, recoil from the notion. They are afraid of the change, yet they are quick to point out the flaws in the current workflow. See, this is the paradox.