How to improve your warehouse productivity

Posted by prakash on December 4th, 2020

In today’s competitive global marketplace, we all know warehouses play a fundamental role in
logistics of manufacturing companies. Most of the company’s measure warehouse productivity
to analyze and monitor the performance of the warehouse operations. Every warehouse
intends to maximize productivity by optimizing workflows, following the automated process to
handle complex operations with ease and safe, thus saves both time and effort.

How can you boost up your warehouse productivity? 
Most of the warehouses have processes and systems in place which leads to warehouse
productivity. What is said to be a profitable warehouse? A productive warehouse working
efficiently and assures maximum returns by attaining a high-performance level. So what’s the
most effective method for increasing warehouse productivity? 
Few pointers are listed below:
 To reduce the investment, instead of purchasing top-notch quality equipment, many
warehouses purchase low cost equipment. But this low cost equipment might lead to
higher operational costs. It is vital to measure the operational cost in terms of
productivity and determine the efficiency of a warehouse.
  Review or conduct an audit of the warehouse operations and the layout. Stock the
items in the quickest order and ensure they can be retrieved with ease and expedite
way. 
 Understands what the business sells and optimizes the warehouse storage area
accordingly (Fast moving SKUs to less purchased stocks by customers). In simpler terms,
grouping and bagging the components that are often used together. This helps to make
better use of storage spaces, and reduced delivery times
 Implement new procedures and the newest technologies available in the market to save
time and effort in warehouse operations.
 It is important to review the SKU constantly to optimize the slots in the warehousing
hub.