Cost Containment

Cost Reduction after Peak

January 6, 2025

Reducing costs in warehouse operations will be high on the ‘must do’ lists of many supply chain executives following the peak trading period. A review of peak trading will reveal the levels of unsold inventory which equates to cash the business is holding and will want to quickly reduce. This inventory will also add […]

Reduce Costs and Increase Efficiency

October 7, 2024

Firms starting their financial year in January will be close to finishing their budgets. Lots of year on year comparisons with bridges and waterfalls showing the areas of variance – leading to challenge and sometime begrudging acceptance of some realities. Operations cost budgets will likely show increases relating to minimum wage increases and annual pay […]

People & Cashflow

August 20, 2024

Warehouses are people intensive operations. The more activities taking place and volumes being handled determine the number of people needed. Forecasts are usually a decent guide but largely inaccurate meaning capacity, hours in the warehouse with no demand for them, is trapped and a silent cost to the business. The other side of […]

Same Job, Same Pay, right?

July 26, 2024

Most folk want to be paid the same as the next person doing the same job, it’s only fair. It has been good to read in recent weeks of the big supermarkets increasing the hourly rate for their employees. The cost of living crisis has impacted most people and continues to do so. Businesses similarly […]

Warehouse Automation and LMS can Collaborate

November 15, 2023

Warehouses are an expensive and essential part of the supply chain. Warehouse operators heading into peak will have the daily challenge of handling volatile volumes and perhaps even more challenging, working with inaccurate forecasts. Those two scenarios combined make space planning an art form not a science as it does too when it comes to […]