Archive for October, 2009

Manage the Warehouse

Monday, October 12th, 2009

Managing a warehouse is about more than just organisation. With the pressure on the supply chain managing a warehouse is about enabling your operation to become efficient, streamline and nowadays, a little bit savvy.
The basic aim is simple, receive goods in, hold them for as long as the sales department needs you to (hopefully not [...]

Celebrating the Barcode

Monday, October 12th, 2009

Google joined the celebrations of the barcode’s 57th anniversary by using the humble barcode as its logo today. The barcode was birthed in 1952 when it was patented by Norman Woodland and Bernard Silver. The Barcode has grown over the years to become the leading optical machine-readable data representation finding its way onto the majority [...]

An Introduction to Warehouse Management Systems

Saturday, October 10th, 2009

An Introduction to Warehouse Management Systems
A warehouse management system, also referred to as WMS is often used to track any type of inventory. Now some might assume that it is only used for those large warehouses that hold thousands of parts, pieces or other products, but that is not quite true. While it is used [...]