Increasingly Complex Stock Handling Rules

Supply Chain and Warehouse performance is based on the adherence to quite often complex stock handling, storage and delivery rules, such as:    

Stock Rotation Rules  - FIFO - LIFO  - Batch  Put-away considerations  - Keep like product together - Keep fast moving Product near door - XYZ Rack Considerations - Compatibility Tables - Temperature Control Considerations – Ambient, Chill, Frozen Picking Considerations - Pallet Building Logic – Pick heavy Items first - Walk Sequence Logic - Full Traceability through the pick-face - Stock Rotation Considerations - Variable/Catch Weights - Pallet Manifesting Traceability - Batch Management - Serial Item Number Tracking - Product Traceability and Recall considerations - Variable/Catch Weights Value Added Processing - Stock Labelling Rules - Dip Testing  - Blast Freezing - Tempering - Microwaving  - Trem Card Management - Sampling - Kitting and Assembly

Successful Supply chains and Warehouses operators must first optimise these business rule and then ensure 100% adherence to these 100% the time.

Give the human nature of most supply chains and warehousing asystem driven approach with “Check Points” and “Catch Points” is essential