Best Practice Warehousing – 10 Point 'Health Check'

Is your warehouse fit and healthy – maximising your profitability? Do you know for sure?

Are you looking to find ways to lift company performance?

Warehouse operations often contain multiple hidden opportunities for reducing costs and increasing service. Because as you know, there’s a lot more to a warehouse operation than just building a big shed and stowing product in it! You must have each and every phase of your operation right.

What will the Health Check tell us?

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The right balance

Many companies struggle to find the right balance between costs and service. Why?

The answer lies partly in the fact that less than 40% of Australian companies include warehousing as a key component of their business strategy. They fail to realise how high an impact it has on their costs of product delivery. Also many companies underrate the importance of warehouse design and only consider it as an afterthought.

The result is that a number of companies, despite huge advances in technology and systems, for example, continue to operate in inappropriate facilities, housing inefficient materials handling equipment and rely on little or no technology – we usually find that these inefficiencies add between 15%-30% in operating costs.

“New World’s involvement was very valuable in verifying we were better off staying in-house than outsourcing – even up against a school of thought that it was better to outsource without any real quantitative analysis. In designing our new facility, New World were very practical – they understand the goals you’re trying to achieve and work in with you to achieve them.” ”

Steve Williams
3M Australia

Typical Symptoms of an unhealthy warehouse:

• Warehouse labour costs are increasing faster than sales
• Warehouse isn't linked to overall logistics strategy
• Operations are managed with a paper based system
• Space constraints force workers to double handle products
• Checkers used to verify everything that's order picked
• Operators are required to travel long distances within the warehouse
• Operations rely on worker knowledge to locate products in the warehouse
• Management have too much to handle to attend to the detail of these issues

If any of these are present in your warehouse, your warehouse is costing your business time and money. To book your warehouse in for the 10 point - Best Practice Warehouse 'Health' call us on +61 2 9401 9152 or CLICK HERE to fill out a Contact Form on our main site.

The basis of our 10 point check

Flexibility and agility are the keys to effective warehousing, so what can you do to succeed in reducing costs while maintaining high levels of customer service? And, where is the best place to start?

Wherever your company is on the 'best practice' curve, it all starts with taking stock of what you do well and where you need to improve. We do this by reviewing the four key pillars of warehouse performance:

• Infrastructure
• Systems
• People
• Process

You’ll get a 10 point detailed custom plan you can action to achieve your best practice warehousing performance.

Surely we can do this ourselves?

We talk to a lot of managers and know that many of you are constantly looking for ways to enhance DC operations. And while it may seem like the ideas have been exhausted and there are no more improvements to be found, this is rarely if ever the case. What makes the difference is to take your industry and company experience and add a fresh set of eyes with an outside perspective.

Our consultants are trained to know what extraordinary items to look for; it is what we specialise in. After all, we’ve been in well over 100 warehouses. We apply the knowledge we’ve gained, not only in your industry but many others, quickly and effectively. You’ll be surprised.

What will the Health Check tell us?

Your Best Practice Warehousing Health Check will deliver:

1. Your ‘must haves’ in warehousing to deliver best practice
2. Areas in your warehousing operations that are non-productive and adding to cost
3. Gaps in your systems, processes and infrastructure
4. Specific (and immediately actionable) steps you should take to achieve improved operational performance and reduced costs

What are the steps involved?

• You receive a comprehensive confidential questionnaire to determine your current warehousing operations. This provides the baseline for our assessment.
• You then nominate a manager to be available to complete the questionnaire and spend a day with our consultant.
• Our consultant will review the completed questionnaire and your operations with your manager, identify what you’re doing well and where the gaps are that you should exploit.
• We will conduct a walkaround within the facility to observe general operating conditions and effectiveness of the processes.
• We assess your existing infrastructure, systems and processes to identify process breaks and other areas impacting on operational productivity.
• You will receive a concise report outlining our specific feedback and recommendations for “quick win” and longer term improvement opportunities.

To book your warehouse in for our 10 point - Best Practice Warehouse 'Health Check' call us on +61 2 9401 9152 or fill out the Contact Form below.

Richard Koch

I look forward to helping you to increase your warehouse performance and showing you the value this will add back to your profitability.

Take the next step toward a significantly higher performing warehouse at your company today - complete and submit the web form above and we’ll be in touch shortly.

Best Regards,

Richard Koch - New World Business Solutions
Specialists in Supply Chain Strategy, Facility Engineering & Design
+61 2 9401 9152