Remove Manual Processes And Drive Efficiency Through Innovative Warehouse Management By Innov8 & Sage.
As a long-standing Sage Business Partner and Developer, with over 25 years of experience, we have spent lots of time identifying and overcoming the problems that warehouses and distribution centres face, and from this, we have developed our innware warehouse management solution.
Find out more about what we do below...
To achieve warehouse storage optimisation, the sequence of actions should run like a well-oiled machine right from the outset of parts or goods being ordered for delivered into the warehouse to the moment they leave for delivery.
At the beginning of this sequence, our solutions consider how to optimise your output by linking finance and operations, then strategically assisting the goods-in and put-away process.
We also consider warehouse user & end-customer behaviour, utilising your racking space to best lay away products based on how likely to be picked they are. By placing popular picking items in an easily accessible place, the time spent travelling between picks will be reduced; therefore saving time and increasing picking efficiency.
In fact, our customers on average report a 25% increase in warehouse optimisation - so we are confident our solutions improve processes, across a spectrum of industries and organisations of all different sizes and scales.
One of the most prominent issues faced in warehouse management is having an accurate idea of stock. Stock count is often vulnerable to inaccuracies which are mostly caused by human error. By automating the process, stock count is less vulnerable to human error and therefore a more realistic vision of stock is available any time, on any device.
To enhance this further the ability to perform ad-hoc stock takes perpetually provides 360 degree visibility through the lifecycle of your inventory means you know the total value of your stock minute by minute.
There is a very good chance that you will know the dangers of the fine line between overstocking and understocking. Overstocking can cost organisations thousands of pounds every year, and it is not an uncommon occurrence for stock in good condition to wasted due to stock replenishing inaccuracies.
Understocking can also be detrimental to an organisation, causing carnage to pickers and customers who do not receive their products.
We use automated technology to supply an accurate representation of stock position to help you balance stock levels and forecast future intake. Our technology can do this for you, to the point of alerting you when existing inventory reaches a minimum threshold - ensuring constant and reliable stock levels to pick from.
Warehouses and distribution centres often come under fire for the large amount of waste that they produce. Whilst most of this waste is recyclable and cannot be helped such as waste produced through packaging, a significant problem for warehouses, wholesalers and distributors is becoming more eco-friendly is the disposal of spoilt or unsold stock.
In particular, it is common to see a large amount of out of date stock disregarded as waste, mostly due to poor stock management. Within our solution we focus on best before dates and sell-buy date management to reduce stock wastage, directing pickers to the stock with the soonest expiry date.
Finally damaged stock. It's a fact of life that some inventory will be damaged, but limiting this is crucial. A pragmatic way to overcome this is defined pick routes and the types of pick operation available - innware offers 4 different pick operations: pallet/bulk, consolidated, wave & piece. The trade off for damage limitation, doesn't necessarily have to be efficency, by simply finding a smarter way to operate.
There is often lots of room for improvement for efficiency in warehouses and distribution centres, and this includes the sharing of information. In particular with your chosen courier service or even with your own distribution channel.
We work to capture and electronically pass information from your warehouse operation in a simplified, streamlined process through to your customer fulfilment - which reduces errors, duplication and saves time for you and your partners.
We are incredibly proud of the business that we work with, and over the years and right across different solutions we have hundreds of successful implementations.
Right now, our technology manages many thousands of stock movements each day. Regardless of whether our customers’ organisations are big or small, we continue to help them meet the changing challenges of modern warehousing and distribution.
Clients have reported:
You have see some of the future-proof improvements you can make, to maximise efficiency in your operations. For a more in-depth look, book a call with us today.
Innov8 is a leading provider of software and IT infrastructure for businesses throughout the UK.
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