Consultative Strategy Development — Warehouse Management
Your warehouse plays a key part in ensuring that your company meets its productivity goals. You can move goods and information through your warehouse at maximum speed. Your warehouse can become more profitable by eliminating hidden costs that can add up over time.
We help you enhance inventory management by decreasing inventory levels, improving order fulfillment and reducing order cycle time, to control all of your warehouse activities.
Improve workforce efficiency through optimal facility layout. To achieve optimal productivity in your warehouse, products need to be placed strategically. This increases workforce efficiency, shortens order fulfillment cycles and minimizes damage by determining the best place for inventory in your warehouse.
Before you actually slot goods, CRL will work with you to calculate the new positions to ensure that the time and labor you invest pays off. Once your pickline is at peak productivity. We will work with your warehouse management team to:
- Determine the best location for every product in your facility
- Organize your facility to decrease bottlenecks and product damage
- Adjust slotting criteria as products, locations and demand change
- Prevent worker fatigue and accidents Maintain peak productivity of your pick line
Labor can be an expensive resource for your company. By tracking associate time, calculating estimated task duration and proving synchronized reporting on employee performance, CRL optimizes your warehouse workforce. We will provide reports for all levels—and, when integrated with existing warehouse management solutions, managers and employees can use it to obtain performance expectations and review results.
Labor planning—a forecasting tool—projects the number of full-time and temporary employees necessary to complete work. This allows managers to improve labor efficiency, reduce overtime hours and increase customer service levels. This will allow you to assess what work has been assigned and completed, as well as what work remains. That way, you gain flexibility in managing the workforce and ensure that your personnel are focusing on the highest priorities.
CRL gives you visibility beyond the four walls of your warehouse by providing yard and dock door management capabilities. This handles all of your shipping and receiving requirements by creating plans and managing inventory in the yard.
We will work with your shipping/receiving department in scheduling appointments and tracking trailer position and status, allowing you to turn loads more quickly and efficiently.
At the dock door, you will manage the timely arrival of loads and ensures that trailers unload at the right dock door at the right time. You benefit from the efficient scheduling and management of appointments to reduce load and unload wait times—and reduce the risk of violating Hours of Service regulations.