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Reasons Why You Should Audit and Assess Your Warehouse

Small and medium-sized wholesalers are the backbone of most economies. While larger and multinational wholesalers are typically focused on reporting quarterly or semi-annual financial figures, traditional wholesalers aim for greater efficiencies. Why? <br>Here we’ll focus on the “why” and not the “how” as there are many warehouse consultants who will gladly do an independent audit and assessment for you.

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Reasons Why You Should Audit and Assess Your Warehouse

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  1. 4 REASONS WHY YOU SHOULD AUDIT AND ASSESS YOUR WAREHOUSE

  2. Small and medium-sized wholesalers are the backbone of most economies

  3. Reporting quarterly or semi-annual financial figures, traditional wholesalers aim for greater efficiencies

  4. WHY Independent audit and assessment for you Focusing on the “why” also helps to justify why you should invest time and money in regular warehouse audits

  5. WHY WE DO REGULAR WAREHOUSE ASSESSMENTS What really gets a retail customer coming back to a wholesaler? SIMPLY FANTASTIC CUSTOMER SERVICE ON-GOING BUSINESS RELATIONSHIP Short-term relationship that ebbs and flows with prices

  6. HERE TODAY GONE TOMORROW

  7. Customers love wholesalers who maintain a consistently high order fill rate

  8. 1 MOTIVATING EMPLOYEES

  9. Your employees are the most important assets in your business

  10. Your employees can be benchmarked in terms of their job output and productivity TALK TO YOUR STAFF ASK FOR FEEDBACK Turnover and training can also be another way to assess your workforce

  11. GET THE RIGHT PEOPLE FROM THE START Hiring the right people at the start can resolve many human resources issues later on

  12. 2 Reviewing Workflow and Processes

  13. The ultimate aim here is to reduce the number of steps taken to do certain tasks

  14. PHYSICAL STEPS CAN BE REDUCED Looking at the number of physical steps it takes to receive, unload and store goods Review the routes to pick-and-pack items, load and ship orders out See how items move from receiving and returns at the warehouse dock, the unpacking and counting procedure You should uphold quality control in the picking-and-packing process

  15. 3 IMPROVING PHYSICAL FACILITIES

  16. Using the space in an efficient and effective way to stretch your rental dollar and maximize your storage space Inventory Management Software | https://emergeapp.net/features/

  17. REMEMBER GENERAL HOUSEKEEPING The costs and risks of operating a warehouse go up as your housekeeping standards go down

  18. 4 USING INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

  19. The aim here is to maximize the use of your physical space and improve the efficiency of labor with technology

  20. THE QUESTION OF BUILD OR BUY You are solely responsible for supporting and upgrading your own solution Software packages are modular in nature and are adaptable to most businesses

  21. INVENTORY MANAGEMENT FUNCTIONS ARE CRITICAL At the heart of any WMS should be inventory management software (IMS) such as EMERGE App

  22. Take a good look at your staff, business processes, warehouses, and technology systems to get an advantage over your competitors

  23. MORE INFORMATION https://emergeapp.net/warehouse/audit-and-assess-your-warehouse/

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