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You could argue that all areas of the warehouse are equally important but the bottom line is if we receive things poorly the odds of us picking them and shipping them properly are pretty close to zero.

When it comes to world-class receiving and put away one of the general principles is to try to minimize the number of handling steps throughout the process.

When it comes to the fast-moving world of modern technology, one of the most talked-about subjects of recent years has been the Internet of Things and its impact on the retail industry. Nonetheless, since IoT has yet to become truly mainstream, many consumers and businesses alike are left baffled when they hear the rather unintuitive turn. Others might dismiss it as a passing fad, an expensive gimmick that will never really take on but, once you've familiarized yourself with the reality and, particularly, the potential it presents in the world of retail innovation, you'll likely have a different opinion.

Warehouse management is commonly associated with six basic tenets: accuracy, cost control, efficiency, cleanliness, safety and security, but the underlying processes are complex and dynamic, presenting major problems for warehouse managers across industries. Distributors have to deal with trade-offs due to resource limitations, leading to under performance in key functional areas.

Warehouse managers face the challenge of maximizing performance while balancing trade-offs under uncertain conditions. This article examines the top five warehouse management problems and their solutions.

Are you looking for innovative ways to reduce your supply chain costs? Do you like discovering new resources you can utilize to streamline processes, cut overhead, while still wowing your customers? You might want to investigate the growing supply chain management sector.

One of the biggest contributors to back pain in adults is the workplace. We expect work to be difficult, to challenge us and to be rewarding, but all of that hard work can end up in a lifetime of pain. Treating back pain caused in the workplace starts with understanding why this pain may develop. When you understand the causes of your pain, you can create a plan for treating it.

In case you weren't able to attend Modex 2016 you can still listen to Newcastle's presentation "Opening New Frontiers in Efficiency and and Productivity With Mobile Power". 

When shippers mix 3PL's elements of process efficiency, technology, and expertise in their supply chain, the results are powerful – it yields stronger, more cost-effective and efficient logistics operation. The relationship between third-party logistics providers and shippers is made up of a variety of elements that come together to make up the whole.

With warehouses and distribution centers (DC) doing more inventory and SKUs work, businesses are required to address orders for various channels. As a result, building a good inventory management system is becoming crucial and doing so becomes more complex. Here are some critical areas to focus on to deal with the multi-channel era.

DC managers are under constant pressure over the past few years to meet the growing e-commerce. In such a speed obsessed era, it is not about reducing the inventory, but control. 

The term lean thinking was coined by James P. Womack and Daniel T.Jones to capture the essence of their in-depth study of Toyotaʼs fabled Toyota Production System. 

Lean thinking is a new way of thinking any activity and seeing the waste inadvertently generated by the way the process is organized by focusing on the concepts of:

1. Value
2. Value streams
3. Flow
4. Pull
5. Perfection

The complete details can read in

The Essentials of Lean Manufacturing eBook.

Lean thinking was born out of studying the rise of Toyota Motor Company from a bankrupt Japanese automaker in the early 1950s to todayʼs dominant global player. At every stage of its expansion, Toyota remained a puzzle by being capturing new markets with products deemed relatively unattractive and with systematically lower costs while not following any of the usual management dictates. 

"Lean thinking was born out of studying the rise of Toyota Motor Company from a bankrupt Japanese automaker in the early 1950s to todayʼs dominant global player."

While it’s important for lean consultants to stay on top of current trends in lean manufacturing, it is difficult to keep up with advances in technology and new opportunities. For instance there is new warehouse cart technology available that reduces waste. Here are five new trends in lean manufacturing we believe you will want to know about:

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1. Strength-Based Lean Thinking

Most applications of lean thinking begin with an assumption that there is a theoretical “perfect state” for each organizational process and that the current state deviates from the perfect state due to inefficiencies and waste.

The strength-based approach to lean has a different focus. Instead of focusing on what is not working and inefficient, it teaches how to identify what is already working efficiently and generates value in existing processes and systems (this is called “strength focus”).

The strength-based approach to lean is more natural to work with and more sustainable in the long term.

Leveraging current or past knowledge, and accessing experiences and successes from within the system, are great resources for the next generation of improvement initiatives. They also provide motivation for everyone to face the challenges and opportunities ahead.