Warehousing continues to face tough challenges. Work lean, but work faster. Increase efficiency and accuracy. Those are lofty goals.
Meanwhile, the number of SKUs will keep growing at a rapid rate, along with the warehouse space and even the number of locations and employees in your enterprise.
The choice of your technology will enable you to achieve greater success. Reducing waste and increasing efficiency leads to satisfied customers and a better bottom line for your operation. When there’s no room for error, you need to choose wisely.
A warehouse is a tough environment. You can’t expect lightweight technology to perform up to the harsh conditions that are part of the daily routine.
Consumer smartphones, tablets, and mobile computers aren’t designed for commercial use. Yes, they can perform some of the functions, but at what cost?
On average, a consumer smartphone will last about a year in a commercial environment, like a warehouse. A rugged mobile computer, like Zebra’s TC70/75, looks like a smartphone, but will deliver about three years of constant use, including repeated drops on the concrete floor. While the initial purchase price of a consumer-grade smartphone might be less than its rugged counterpart, the replacement comes at a much higher price. When you have to replace the device twice, you’re actually spending more to get a less durable mobile device right from the start.
Accurate, efficient picking and shipping is critical to customer satisfaction. It also reduces waste in your warehouse or distribution center that results from mispicks, mis-ships, return shipping, and the time spent hunting down misplaced inventory.
Wearable technology presents a powerful solution to improving your picking and shipping processes. Equip the warehouse worker with a wrist terminal, like the Zebra WT6000, a lightweight yet rugged mobile computer that fits comfortably on the arm. By tapping the WT6000’s touchscreen, pickers get up-to-the-minute data on orders, as well as exact locations of the items to be picked.
Interlink Technologies is named a Parcel Logistics Leader and is only one of thirty three companies named as a 2016 HOT Company for small package solutions.
Interlink provides Warehouse-LINK® warehouse management solutions (WMS) to small warehouses through large distribution centers. Interlink accommodates small package needs with specific solutions:
Warehousing literature can be confusing, but in a nutshell, WES is the new slang for what the industry and Interlink refer to as Manufacturing or Work Order Processing. WCS is slang for real-time integration with material handling systems that provides warehouse user directives.
Impact Products
Read about our customer, Impact Products, in Manufacturing Today’s Featured Article: 1688-impact-products-llc
Interlink’s Warehouse-LINK® WMS provides solutions to companies like Impact Products who have the challenge of growth with limited real estate. Read more in Manufacturing Today http://www.manufacturing-today.com/sections/profiles/1688-impact-products-llc
• Real-time information would be a #1 priority for everything!
• Warehouse space wouldn’t be wasted, and would be organized intelligently
• We could find what we are looking for – easily and not eventually
• Customers would receive accurate orders – the first time
• Only certain employees would be allowed to perform certain tasks
• I would be able to see what was going on in every area of the warehouse