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• Warehouse Cost Reduction - Act Now!

  December 4th, 2008

  According to recent Warehouse Education and Research Council (WERC) benchmarking studies across all sectors only about 20% of warehouse operations are achieving industry best practice levels in the key performance benchmarks. Clearly, there is a huge opportunity of untapped potential for savings and improvements in warehouse operations around the world. Too many of you are big money on the floor. To start tapping into this reservoir of improvement……..

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• WMS: Modifications and Upgrades

  September 5th, 2008

  45% of participants in an independent survey identified Modifications and Ugrades as a significant source of unforeseen difficulties in WMS implementation. This articles explores the reasons why and what you can do to avoid theses problems.

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• WMS - Integration and Interface Problems

  August 23rd, 2008

  The third rated source of unforeseen difficulties in WMS implementation as identified by an independent survey was Integration and Interfaces. If you want to avoid difficulties in this area, get your IT people on board early on. Don’t be intimidated by the technology and the terminology, don’t assume that “someone” else will look after. Take control, learn what you need to know and get stuck in…….

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