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Below is a post from About.com’s logistics blog…According to the survey cited, 1 in 3 companies have no plans to improve anything in their warehousing strategy in the next 24 months.  This is probably not true and overshadowed by the questioning about new WMS implementation. 

This speaks to a larger issue at hand however–Companies do seem to focus on the big issues and the kaizen events–the everday continuous improvments.  We think we can only improve things by implementing a ginourmous system-this is obviously completely wrong.  These systems are undergirded by and only successful with simple robust processes that could be done in the absence of a fancy WMS.  In this age of computer we need to make sure we are implementing common sense and continuous improvment–and baby that’s free.

From logistics.about.com

Is Your Company The One In Three?

Thursday November 6, 2008

In the latest Warehousing and Transportation update from the Aberdeen Group I was surprised to read that in a survey nearly 60% of respondents were likely to implement new warehouse management software or upgrade their current systems in the next 24 months. This with coupled with two thirds of respondents indicating that they were going to improve warehouse processes.
My surprise is not that so many companies are performing such improvements, but more so with the number that has said that they will not. I am genuinely shocked that one out of every three respondents said that they will not improve their warehouse processes. There are very few warehouse operations in the world, if any, that have implemented perfect processes. Warehouse processes can be improved, not only by spending funds on new equipment or software, but by looking at changing simple things like picking strategies or cycle counting processes.