When you are one cog in a system, from goods arriving at your organization’s front door, processed through your warehouse systems and prepared for shipping, communication is key throughout the entire process if each partner is to understand the status of the goods at any stage.
Do You Specialize?
Specializing in one specific type of product may benefit the way you are seen by your customers, but are you limiting the use of your warehouse systems and the potential of moving into other categories of products throughout your process?
Where you have only previously dealt with food products, when an opportunity opens for you to process pharmaceutical items, it is certainly worth looking at the opportunity to see how you can benefit. There may be seasonal changes during the year where one product considerably outsells the other. Through managing your warehouse systems software efficiently, it may be easy to move from one product to another, reducing any downtime and boosting profits.
The software of your choice must be able to store, pick and process a variety of products, sizes and weights where you choose to mix and match your goods throughout the year.
You will be inspected by different government and state departments to ensure that your processing of completely opposite items is clean, safe and efficient.
The packaging and shipping methods will vary, depending upon your choice of products to move through the warehouse.
Where your employees have worked closely with one product and not with the other, you will need to educate and train these individuals in different handling and alternative picking methods. They will need to understand how to manage the inventory so that the required levels of stock are always available.
You will need to speak to professional experts who have been managing the software and design for warehouse systems for a variety of companies that deal with a mixture of products and goods.
