Warehouse productivity improvement
What is Juniper Innovations’ warehouse productivity improvement?
Juniper Innovations’ warehouse productivity improvement helps you understand, control and direct team performance, employee tracking and overall warehouse labour management. Even in parts of the operation with no warehouse or other control software.
With Juniper Innovations’ warehouse productivity improvement you receive tailored consultancy and custom software applications enabling you to save 20% and much more in costs and efficiencies.
Using our proven methods you can see:
- What improvements give the greatest return and the timing of when to make them
- How to reduce costs and improve performance by over 20% with little or no capital expenditure
Plus at peak periods how to use existing labour hours with no additional cost to:
- Manage peak workloads without finding and paying for extra warehouse capacity
- Absorb new business into an existing logistics network
- Reduce inventory levels, become more efficient and not pay for additional storage
- Improve product supply service levels
Juniper Innovations’ warehouse productivity improvement complements our warehouse management system and custom software applications. It gives you greater cost control, lowers overall labour hours, improves efficiency, productivity and warehouse stock flow.
Drive down labour hours, maximise, measure and control working time, increase value added tasks, cost specific duties and jobs. Working at multiple levels from group, shift and team and by function, section or department you’ll receive rich functionality and measured returns.
How does it work?
Our experienced senior consultants follow a proven methodology tailored to your organisation. This includes:
- Understanding your warehouse and logistics goals. This is to ensure the benefits you receive are aligned to your plan, budgets, inventory forecasts, operational / team set up and link to key performance indicators
- Building models to guide decision making. We complete a statistical analysis giving you forecast models for your supply chain and/or warehouses so you understand where and how labour cost savings can be applied, where capacity can be absorbed, how labour productivity can be improved and if relevant areas such as cost to serve gains. These proven techniques have shown many major companies that significant capital outlays are not always required to achieve strategic aims
- Process improvements based on operational intelligence including industry benchmarks. We spend time
reviewing and analysing your warehouse operation to understand all your operational warehouse activities including value- and non-added services. You receive a recommendations on changes to make and why/when you should make them, how to implement them using simple clear improvement steps, benefits analysis and a roll out programme to make the changes a reality. Importantly we help you implement these changes so you get more than a report. You get real changes made to your operation with support and benefits measurement. We support you for the period you want the benefits to last and help your workforce adopt lasting cultural change - Accurate cost and profit measurement. To give you better control we also provide tailored, reliable and accurate performance reporting for all warehousing and distribution areas. This includes coaching your management team and workforce to use performance reporting as a performance improvement tool. Plus you’ll be uniquely placed to quantify improvements as they are made.
- Technology integration. Where you require custom software to track activities, integrate them into our or your existing warehouse management, shop floor or back end office systems we provide the right hardware and software solutions to support your operations giving you real time intelligence to make better decisions
What do you get?
Juniper Innovations’ consultants provide:
- Statistical models built around your objectives and business
- Labour tracking software including web based real time management information
- Business process and stock flow recommendations
- Stock utilisation studies across a single warehouse or network
- Cost to serve measurement
- Coaching and training advice
Support
Consultancy support is built around your organisation. From regular meetings, workshops and studies to telephone and email help.
For software suport, Juniper Innovations’ support packages can be tailored around your organisation. From 9 to 5 to 24/7 solutions you get support to meet your business requirements. Our standard support includes a 9-5 weekday helpdesk.
Establishing the best solution
Our specialist senior consultants will apply our warehouse productivity improvement methodology and work with you to analyse your needs and recommend the best solution to fit your organisation. Plus where required your solution may include additional bespoke work tailored around your organisation’s value added processes.
When the paperwork is agreed our team will confirm a go-live plan with you, analyse, develop and test the solution, help implement your solution locally and train your personnel. Deployment is fast so you start getting the benefits immediately. Typically you will know the benefits you can achieve by the end of a week.
Why use warehouse productivity improvement?
Our proven methodology will help you achieve numerous challenges:
- Reducing overtime, temporary labour and full-time costs
- Lessening or eliminating the need for outside storage
- Absorbing extra capacity into the warehouse or network
- Measuring and charging for customer value added projects accurately
- Collecting accurate cost to serve data
What to do next?
Call us for a free consultation to understand the potential for your organisation .
Who uses warehouse productivity improvement?
Read Juniper Innovations’ client case studies here>>>
What are the benefits of warehouse productivity improvement?
High return on investment
Our solutions are high impact and give high return on investment. We give you indicative benefits figures in about a week and real benefits shortly after.
Immediate and lasting improvements
Deployment is fast so you see improvements immediately. Some changes however will occur over a longer period however with our support we’ll ensure you get lasting impact
Intelligent information
Your team receive on-going performance and tracking information enabling them to assess and analyse where further improvements can be made after changes to operational practices, customer, product, regulatory and other internal requirements. This keeps you in control and ahead of the game
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