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Table of Contents

  • What is warehouse management
  • Warehouse management process
  • Warehouse arrangement & set-up
    • Warehouse location management
    • Warehouse layout
    • Inventory management
    • Safety management
  • Warehouse operations management
    • Lean warehouse management
    • Putaway Process
    • Order lead time
  • Warehouse fulfillment
    • Warehouse picking
    • Warehouse packing
    • Warehouse shipping
  • Warehouse technology and barcode scanning systems
  • Warehouse management system
  • Warehouse management template

Chapter 4

Warehouse operations management: How to go from receipt to deliver

The purpose of warehouse operations management is to assist in the management of inventory movement within a warehouse from receipt to delivery. As complex as warehouse operations are to begin with, managing these operations can become even more difficult due to a number of factors …

If your warehouse’s layout isn’t optimized for accessibility, mobility, and transfer of inventory, your team isn’t going to be able to operate to their highest capacity. The more time and effort it takes your warehouse team to complete a given task, the less productive they’ll be overall.

Another key concern is the safety of your team, your equipment, and your inventory. Without the proper precautions in place, your chances of experiencing anything from minor setbacks to major disasters increase substantially.

And, even if you do have proper safety procedures and protocols in place, there will always be the potential for human error to cause problems. Proper skills and training minimize human error. Even so, you’ll also need to develop an operational strategy that enables these highly-skilled individuals to complete their assigned tasks with little to no friction.

In the following sections, we’re going to go over the key ways to optimize warehouse operations in order to mitigate these challenges and to maximize productivity.

Specifically, we’ll be addressing the following questions:

  • What is lean warehouse management?
  • What is the putaway process?
  • What is order lead time and why do you need to know it?
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