Ultimately, getting orders to your customers on time and in full is the truest measure. But achieving that with the least number of staff required, and using the minimal amount of space should be your goal. In that way, your warehouse management and logistics function will be as lean and economical as possible, ensuring the margins on the products you sell are kept healthy.
It is not always easy to determine whether your operation is efficient in a situation where things feel like they are running smoothly, and customers are not complaining. But this is where a warehouse management system (WMS) can come into its own. A WMS helps you work efficiently, and identify weak processes more easily. It also provides a system to record and report on all your warehouse-related data accurately.
Only by having good data can you discover the true picture of how your fulfillment operations are running. To quote a familiar maxim: if you can’t measure it, you can’t improve it!
This article was by Alex Mills of ProSKU, a cloud-hosted warehouse stock management system with ecommerce capability.
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