Active floor supervision allows supervisors to enhance performance within the distribution center in 3 key ways. Be sure to walk the floor regularly to stay abreast of problems.
It helps to recognize which employees may require more training by having regular presence on management on the floor. These frequent visits can be utilized to see who may be the next to be promoted to a managerial position; it shows you consider the floor and everything which happens there and the workers to be vital to the overall operation and very vital; finally, you could address issues as they occur.
Determine the Use of Space: Start by checking cube utilization in your facility. Check if there is much empty space near the ceiling. Implementing higher racks and narrow aisles and certain forklifts that operate in those kinds of settings could greatly increase how you move and store supplies. What may not look like much wasted space can translate into thousands of extra dollars and square feet with some adjustments.
Check for Obsolete Inventory: If you notice a stock-keeping unit or SKU has not moved in over a year, it is definitely consuming valuable space. Moreover, if you have lots of half-full pallets which are staged or stored in aisles, you are also not using available space to its full potential. By doing an inventory overhaul and re-organizing existing stock, a lot of space can be made to accommodate objects which are moving faster.
How is the Product Flow? Take the time to trace how precisely product flows in your facility regularly. Check to see if the flow is sequential and logical. Around 60% of direct labor in the warehouse is allotted to traveling from place to place. You can potentially have less employees completing the same amount of work by being aware of product flow. Being able to move staff to finish other tasks instead of having workers doubled up moving objects will get more work out of the same amount of staff.
Review how the order filling procedure is occurring. If you notice that a variety of SKUs are mixed-up in one place and orders do not need things of this mix, pickers are wasting time. One more big time-waster is having the same SKU situated in multiple locations in the warehouse. Get the workers used of going to a specific location for each and every particular item so that they are simply looking in one area and not traveling through the warehouse checking more than one location for the same thing. These small changes could greatly improve the overall effectiveness inside your warehouse.