Attention Supply Chain Managers
Are you struggling to improve warehouse performance?
These days the warehouse is much more than a shed holding a lot of steel racking and pallets. Today the warehouse is recognized as the beating heart that sustains the logistics strategy of the business - the pathway to profits and competitive advantage.
Now the bar is set higher than ever before. Your customers demand higher service levels, which means they want faster response and pinpoint accuracy.
But you’re also facing rising expenses, skills shortages as well as high land and buiding costs. That’s why many forward-looking management teams have made warehouse productivity and performance a priority on their agendas.
Take Your Warehouse Operations from Cinderella to Star of the Show
Once upon a time the warehouse and stores used to be the “Cinderella” departments. In those days there were no guts and no glory in these cold, dark corners of the business. All of that has no changed forever.
Today’s warehouse goes way beyond the simplistic consideration of “if I do X, how much more storage capacity will I create”. To achieve competitive advantage, you need warehouse facilities that will support you in achieving the strategic goals of the business. The task of developing and implementing a warehousing strategy from concept through to implementation and on to contiuous monitoring of performance is defined mission of Alba Logistics.
Even the smallest warehouse management decision involves technical complexity.
You have decisions to make about every piece of the warehouse puzzle. You need to read the fine print and get current on the latest technology. And if you’re like most of our clients, technical-know-how is what’s keeping you from making your warehouse more productive.
To learn what’s available would take months of time and thousands of Euros. For example, there are multiple types of racking and shelving solutions available from myriad vendors. For a productive warehouse, you need to integrate them into warehouse management systems that also reduce picking and ordering costs.
Design choices directly impact your bottom line.
Implementing the best integrated warehouse solution can:
- yield labour savings up to 55% (with just a few changes to your current system)
- pay back your investment in as little as 3 years
- enhance accuracy, service quality and speed to deliver increased customer satisfaction, starting immediately
You want those cost savings and productivity. But who’s got time to investigate all these systems and run a core business at the same time?
Wouldn’t it be nice to:
- Choose just the right storage and handling equipment (so you save money by buying only what you need)
- Coordinate internal logistics design with the architectural and engineering facilities design (so you maximize productivity that impacts the bottom line)
- Double labour productivity (so you lower operating costs as a percentage of sales)
- Raise service levels (so you retain customers and build relationships)
- Increase accuracy in warehouse output (so you deliver high levels of customer service that builds strong loyalties)
- Develop confidence in your own knowledge and beliefs (because you’re working with numbers instead of hunches)
- Gain access to state of the art inventory management systems (so you remain competitive in any market)
The good news is…
You don’t have to go back to school for a Warehouse 101 degree. You don’t need to take time away from a busy business to learn (and re-learn) the basics. You don’t have to worry that you’re missing out on the latest state-of-the-art equipment (or making choices that fail to deliver value).
Alba Logistics will deliver your customized warehouse solutions because we’ve already got the know-how. We develop integrated, profit-making solutions. You get to do what you know best: making products and selling them.
We’ve helped dozens of companies save millions of Euro as they enhance their supply chain and compete more aggressively in a worldwide market. We’ve found thousands of of cubic metres of storage space in warehouses that were packed so tight the owners swore, “There’s no room for even another half a pallet in here.” And we’ve saved hundreds of thousands of labour hours and thousands of kilometres travelled by order pickers.
So there’s a good chance that we can help you do the same.
Are you ready to begin saving money and becoming more productive?
To learn more about the clients we serve and how we have helped them, please click here.
To get started right away:
For one-to-one consulting: the shortest distance between you and a profit-driven warehouse system.
Call +353 1 415 1252 now.
Not ready for a full-blown consulting project just yet?
Then how about attending a one-day logistics seminar?
