Cost Containment
Warehouse Cost Reduction
Most businesses right now are reviewing their cost base. Getting cost out has obvious benefits but in the current trading headwinds reducing costs might be the only route to staying afloat if top line growth is elusive. Larger corporations may still plough on with technology investment programmes – some might be essential, even business critical, […]
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UK business are still planning their responses to the impending increases in National Insurance Contributions (NIC) and the Minimum Wage. These two increases alone have triggered U turns and strategy reviews up and down the country – the cost to business is too much to be absorbed. Restructures Redundancies Store closures Recruitment freezes Investments cancelled […]
Read MoreWarehouse Cost Containment
Post peak reviews will have taken place by now and actions agreed to improve the next one. Service and Cost are always high on the list of topics under review – how can one be improved and the other reduced. Vitesse can help on both fronts. Vitesse reduces both direct and indirect labour costs – […]
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Most warehouses will be conducting post peak reviews and look positively at things that went well. The good operations will conduct a thorough review at things that could have been done better, a critical self appraisal. Thereafter, cost containment is the order of the day. Getting costs out of warehouses post peak is a traditional […]
Read MoreNew Year New Measures
In April this year employers will see the cost of employing people rise quite steeply. The national minimum wage, whilst most welcome to those receiving the increase, goes up to £12.21 for over 21’s. Paying people fairly for the work they do is only right and proper. National Insurance Contributions (NIC) increase too which is […]
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