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Winning With Your Warehouse Space In Edmonton

Looking for better real-time material and inventory control?

Struggling for ways to improve decision making and accountability?

Looking for faster response times and higher profitability in your warehousing?

There are ways to enhance your success in warehousing and ways that you should avoid. Today, we’ll look at a number of proven ways good warehousing practices benefit your bottom line.

First, it’s critical that you reduce or eliminate the manual and often redundant entry of data. Comparatively, it’s slow and is prone to errors which can end up costing you in terms of delays. In order to avoid the mistakes that wreak havoc with inventory accuracy, use bar code scanners at the receiving dock to immediately identify products on arrival. Stop worrying and wasting time on identification, counting, and data entry errors.

In conjunction with this, it’s wise to ensure your suppliers provide bar code labels when shipping to your warehouse in Edmonton Canada. And Advanced Shipping Notices can allow you to plan for incoming materials more efficiently. This will make life easier for your staff to identify each item and associate it with a valid purchase order.

Another important tactic is to ensure everything is put away in the correct spot, instantly. By scanning all destination locations including rack and shelving, and assigning locations close to pick slots where the product is likely to be needed next, your efficiency will be enhanced much more than with a traditionally manual process.

To further enhance the automation process, make sure your barcode scanning captures inventory counts in real time. That way, your inventory status will always remain up to date. Furthermore, it’s a good practice to equip your pickers with hands-free devices. This will allow them to do their jobs faster, work more safely and with fewer mistakes.

Automation and real-time technologies are keys here when looking for a warehouse for lease in Edmonton. Utilize your wireless network and voice-enabled devices to provide efficient communications between staff. Gone are the days of walking around the warehouse looking for workers to do a job.

In order to compete in this dynamic environment, warehouses must be proactive and responsive. It almost goes without saying that accuracy is more critical than ever. In other words, anything less than perfection in order fulfillment can result in a lost customer. Consumer expectations in this need-it-now culture require that automation and technology be maximized to their fullest.

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