10 Strategies To Optimize Warehouse Operations

By Ken Ruehrdanz

What are the key attributes of a successful warehouse operation? Here is a core set of strategies for consideration that can align the warehouse and distribution center logistics with business strategies. We call these components "The 10 Strategies to Optimize Warehouse Operations". The strategies are created from proven solutions aimed at eliminating non-value adding activities and address the business drivers that are most important to you. Intelligently applied, they bring an organization's logistics strategy into alignment with business strategy and help provide a competitive edge in your market sector.

• Reduce Time Wasted Traveling
• Move Orders To Zones
• Batch Orders and Sort
• Eliminate travel, Split Case Selection & Replenishment
• Eliminating travel, Full Case Selection & Replenishment
• Buffering and Sequencing
• Free Picking
• Layer Pick
• Mixed Case Palletizing
• Go Real Time