Is Your Company The One In Three?

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.