There are a lot of different types of warehouses and each of them has unique needs when it comes to warehouse equipment. As a warehouse manager, it's important to know what kind of equipment your warehouse needs in order to run most efficiently. There are no one-size-fits-all warehouse equipment solutions, and tailoring your equipment to your needs can result in greater efficiency and lower costs. [...]
How much attention are you giving ergonomics in your warehouse? Ergonomics is the process of making sure the environment your employees are working in is working for and with them, instead of against them. You hear a lot about ergonomics when it comes to office workers, particularly when it comes to their chairs and how computers are positioned. But ergonomics is just as--or maybe even [...]
A clean warehouse is a wonderful thing. It's more than just visually pleasing, too. There are actual, tangible benefits to keeping your warehouse spotless. They include: Your warehouse equipment lasts longer. When warehouse equipment is in a clean environment, it's going to last much longer than equipment in a messy warehouse. That's because there is less risk of an accident taking out the equipment, fewer [...]
Keeping the warehouse equipment in good repair is one of the main priorities of a warehouse manager, and at the top of that list is pallet rack repair. Proper pallet rack repair is vital to the safety and efficiency of your warehouse. When pallet racks are damaged by merchandise, machinery, or simple human error, that damage needs to be fixed as soon as possible. Whether [...]
Our warehouse consultants recently wrote about how to reduce theft in your warehouse. It's a huge problem for a lot of warehouses and distribution centers and ends up costing American businesses billions of dollars every year. One strategy that we didn't cover in our previous blog involves taking a more personal approach to theft reduction. It involves getting to know more about why your employees are [...]
Is theft an issue in your warehouse? It is for many warehouses across the United States. It isn't organized crime or local heists that are the main contributor to the theft issue, either; employee theft is actually the most common. It's estimated that cargo theft costs U.S. businesses more than $30 billion each year. That's a lot of product walking out your warehouse door. It's [...]
Pictured above (left to right): Todd Maxwell, Craig Howard, Kent Grandgenett and George Janikowski RMH Systems recently received the 'Million Dollar Award' from Avery Weigh-Tronix. To qualify for this award, distributors must achieve more than $1 million in sales revenue in 2016. George Janikowski, Regional Sales Manager at Avery Weigh-Tronix, stopped by to give this award to Todd Maxwell (COO) Craig Howard (Scales General [...]
Making your warehouse more comfortable for your workers is an investment in the productivity of your warehouse. That's because the happier and more comfortable a worker is on the job, the harder they are going to work and the more productive they are going to be. If you've ever been on the job with a headache, sore back, or aching knees, you know how those [...]
There are a number of big issues that are common for warehouses to face. Problems like inventory control, warehouse layout, and picking optimization are all things that our warehouse consultants commonly work with warehouses to improve upon. We love finding solutions that help warehouses build their bottom line and become more efficient. One of the biggest issues that warehouses face, though, is something that many [...]
There are a lot of discussions--and worry--within the warehouse and distribution center industry about automation and technology. The replacement of workers by artificial intelligence is something that's on everyone's mind and it seems to just be a matter of time before robots are doing the job that humans are doing in your warehouse. It's true that in some warehouses, that's already happening. Super high-tech warehouses [...]
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