The Logistics Optimiser @LogisticsAndrew

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What do you do if you are in ecommerce order fulfilment but don't have the volume to justify a multi-million dollar Goods to Person automation solution? ... You optimise the waste out of your Person To Goods picking! A while ago I posted about the benefits of pick path optimisation where I showed that you can get an 80% reduction in travel path with a combination of AI Optimisation and larger pick batch sizes. But larger pick batches mean larger and heavier trolleys that add manual handling risk and slow down your pickers. What if there was an easier way to manage a large cart and let your pickers work more efficiently at what they do best - i.e. picking? I believe there is. Robot pick carts can follow a picker around a warehouse and move from zone to zone autonomously. The Pudu T300 is ideally suited to this task and requires very little set up to do it. You use your normal WMS picking workflow. Combine this with Optioryx AI picking optimisation to minimise your travel path and you will get a massive increase in picking efficiency. If you can cut 80% of your picking travel then you are close enough to a Goods To Person picking process without the massive investment. I am looking for an Australian ecommerce fulfilment business with a manual picking operation that is interested in trialling a robot assisted pick process to develop a proof of concept. Please message me or comment below if you would like to know more. #warehouse #robots #wms #ecommerce

@X Do you have a warehouse? Do you need to number your warehouse bin locations? I created this spreadsheet that makes numbering even the most complex arrangement of storage systems super easy! You can get it for free from the Resources tab on the Logistics Cloud Co. website logisticscloudco.com/resources/. Or DM me if you want to talk about how to solve your stock accuracy and productivity issues. #warehouse #wms

Everything you need to know about barcodes in as few words as I could manage. Barcodes are everywhere but I find that although people use them everyday, they often don't know what they really are and why they have become so useful. I explain it all here. Check out the latest article in my newsletter: What is a Barcode Anyway? linkedin.com/pulse/what-bar… via @LinkedIn #warehouse #barcodes #wms

Cin7 Core is a great inventory management system and it deserves a great Warehouse Management System. We have recently completed a standard integration with Logistics Cloud Co.'s WMS and Cin7 Core with the following integrations: 1. Item Master 2. Inventory Adjustments 3. Blind receipts (no PO) 4. Purchase Orders and PO Confirmations 5. Sales Fulfillments and Ship Confirmation 6. Warehouse Transfers to retail store or another warehouse 7. Stock on Hand Reconciliation between WMS and Core Good integrations allow you to overcome some of the shortcomings of the host system and one of the issues with Cin7 Core that we manage is the tracking multiple units of measure under a single item in the WMS when in Core multiple units are held as variant items. We also handle the common issues of sending and receiving stock transfers between warehouses and stores. Stores are not managed by the WMS and so you only need to process one half of the transfer (either the shipment or the receipt) in the WMS. But with warehouse transfers you need to manage both the shipment and the receipt. Message me for more info or book a call to see if the LCC-WMS is right for you. calendly.com/lcc-andrew/au-… #WMS #warehouse #cin7core #warehousemanagementsystem #ecommerce #Systemintegration

"It's like a snipping tool for the real world!" Turn Pictures into Data with Dimmy, the data collection app for warehouses. AI is getting more useful by the day. The clever folk at Optioryx are adding a new feature to speed up your manual data collection by simply snapping text from a document, box or container and adding it to your cloud database. It's like a snipping tool for the real world. DM me to find out more and see a demo of this amazing new app for warehousing. #warehouse #warehouseoptimisation #Dimmy #wms

Dimmy is becoming a multi-purpose data collection app for the warehouse but its original intent was to put accurate mobile dimensioning into the hands of any warehouse operator that needs it. See more in this video. #warehouse #wms #dimmy #warehouseoptimisation

So how can the future of transport be electric when the current battery technology is so catastrophically dangerous? This has major implications for where we all thought mobility and transport was headed. Even if the likelihood of battery fires is very low, the incidence is increasing as the deployment of EVs increases. Where would you park your shiny new EV if it is banned from underground carparks due to fire risk? Electric semis have 10-20 times the battery size of a car and will have 10-20 times the impact when they catch fire. The risk of widespread deployment of EVs is spreading risk throughout the supply chain from manufacturers, to shipping, dealers, homes, car parks, repairers, battery recycling plants and the grid scale batteries required to support intermittent power generators (solar and wind). The autonomous transport future is largely predicated on electric power, so the promise of dramatically cheaper freight and deliveries is also at risk. If Tesla solve self driving their best option may end up being a licencing deal to traditional car makers or autonomy might be a long way off. We fall over ourselves with regulations mitigating gnat sized risks but we are swallowing camels at the moment pretending the EV future will save us from climate change. Politics is ruining the car industry with punitive regulations on the traditional manufacturers who are forced to make EVs that the public no longer want to buy and slow down the manufacturing of ICE vehicles that that they get fined for selling but are wanted by the market. As a result used cars are in higher demand until they government and industry get their act together. China has bet its car industry on an EV future that sets them up to overtake the west, but it's not looking like as smart a move as it seemed even a year ago. Government interference is accelerating a technology before it is ready for mass market adoption. The EV market should have been allowed to develop slowly so that the problems of adoption remained small until the technology was safe. I don't think this is sustainable and a lot of people are going to get burnt literally and financially if we do not solve this problem. #EV #Fire

The whole point of a SaaS WMS is to make it easy to implement so it can yield results as quickly as possible. That is why we build integrations with commonly used inventory systems. Cin7 Core is a widely used inventory accounting system that is perfect for most small and medium businesses. We're about to start final testing of the new integration and here is what is coming: - Item Master so that your new products automatically load to the WMS. - Purchase orders so that you can get goods into your warehouse quickly and easily. - Purchase order confirmations in full or partial so that data entry is reduced and made more accurate - Sales order fulfillments so that you can take advantage of our fast and accurate picking workflows for wholesale, retail or ecommerce shipping - Sales order fulfillment confirmations with shipping details so you can track your orders from Cin7 Core - Sales Credits so you can manage returns efficiently - Warehouse Transfers so you can ship to retail stores or other warehouses with full tracking of in transit and receipt into warehouse or store. - Easy stock reconciliation so you can make sure that everything stays in balance between you systems. If you don't have a WMS or the WMS you have is not what you need then we may be able to help. Message me or comment and I'll be in touch. #wms #warehouse #cin7core

No it is not too good to be true. You can give your warehouse a massive productivity boost by optimising your pick path and order clustering for ecommerce order fulfillment. - With software optimisation alone you can get ~50% reduction in travel path. - With a two zone picking split and better slotting of your products into fast and slow zones you can up that to ~60% reduction in travel path. - With larger order clusters which may also require multi-batch picking, larger trolleys or maybe robotised trolleys you could up that again to ~80% pick path reduction. So even smaller warehouse operations that can't justify the expense of the latest automation can still be a major boost in productivity with the latest AI optimisation from Optioryx OptiPick. #ecommerce #warehouse #warehouseoptimisation #wms

If you have an ecommerce warehouse you have to see this! This is a short summary of the pick path travel reduction I was able to achieve using Optioryx OptiPick warehouse optimisation software. - A 58.7% reduction in pick path by optimising travel routes and order clustering without changing order cluster size. - A 79.2% reduction in pick path by optimising routes and clusters and by increasing cluster size. See my deep dive video (coming tomorrow) on how I achieved this for more information. #warehouse #warehouseoptimisation #ecommerce #wms

Struggling with inefficient warehouse operations? Optioryx OptiPick can help you reduce travel distance by up to 50%, and optimise every pick! Swipe through to see how OptiPick transforms warehouse efficiency with smart clustering and optimised pick paths. Interested in learning more? DM us or drop a comment below! Let’s make your warehouse operations smarter and faster. Book a FREE logistics checkup, or a WMS demo at logisticscloudco.com.

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For a long time I thought EVs were the future of transport but now I am not so sure. Part of the issue is that the market has been forced by Government policy rather than being allowed to develop naturally, so the initial rapid growth was artificial. Now the EV market is stalling and car makers are cancelling plans to build EV factories and cancelling or delaying new models until they see what the market does. Even the mighty Tesla failed to grow their sales in 2024, selling about the same number as in 2023 despite launching new models. The two biggest issues with EVs are safety and depreciation with usability issues coming in at a not insignificant third place. EV's sometimes spontaneously combust with unquenchable fire, even more so when they are damaged. Slightly damaged battery packs from water and stone damage need to be replaced due to the fire risk, and are not covered by warranty. EV's depreciate faster than fuel cars making them more expensive to lease. Public charging (Apart from Tesla's Superchargers) is expensive and unreliable, and in Australia, non-existent. The EV market is failing due to cost, safety and usability issues. The Government should stop interfering in the market and stop incentivising EVs. Stop punishing car manufacturers for not making EVs. Stop punishing consumers for not buying EVs. People need mobility and the Government should not get in the way with stupid mandates that are having disastrous (hopefully) unintended consequences. Give EV makers time to develop intrinsically safe battery packs that cannot burn and liability for collateral damage when they do. Make them responsible for their failures; when a dent or a splash of water requires a battery pack to be replaced it should be covered by warranty. There must be standards for petrol stations, why not develop a standard for public charging? A slower EV market is what we need to allow time for the upgrade to the electric grid to charge a large EV fleet and to make it safe and reliable. The current trajectory looks to me like it's heading for an epic face plant.

How do you spot a software implementation failure? No one uses the product. We've probably all done it, bought a SaaS software with great intentions and several months (or years later) cancelled it without ever logging on. When this happens at scale it is a much bigger problem, One of the areas of waste picked up by DOGE is unused SaaS licences highlighted today on the All-In Podcast. This sounds like Top down allocation of licences rather than bottom up. I was curious about what ServiceNow is so I looked up it up. Service No is an AI agent workflow software that does, well I don't really know what it does but let's assume it does wonderful magical AI things that make you terribly efficient when you know how to wield it. But out of 35,855 licences only 84 of them are being used, and I'd like to suggest that however great this software may or may not be it has been made available to people who have no idea how to use it. So the roll out is not going great and maybe they should have done a limited roll out of a one small department of 50-100 users and learned from that before buying all those other licences. Maybe someone had a performance target of rolling out AI and in order to tick that box they just bought the software. So what did we learn? - Politics ruins everything and creates waste - Good ideas don't work with out good implementation - Maybe we're not perfect either, better do a SaaS audit. hashtag#All-InPodcast hashtag#SaaSaudit hashtag#DOGE hashtag#Waste

There really is nothing better than a 3D Warehouse Design to help you understand what your new warehouse layout will look like. Here is one I did a few years ago with a two level ecommerce picking area and a simple conveyor to move packed orders from the packing benches to the dispatch sortation area. You can achieve a very high throughput without extensive automation. All you need is a good WMS like the Logistics Cloud Co. WMS and a smart AI optimisation partner like Optioryx to help you optimise your order clusters by proximity with an optimised pick path, instead of the fixed pick path in your WMS. I was astonished when running some tests recently to see an easy 50% reduction in picking travel distance with OptiPick. There is even more upside to be gained by increasing the cluster size, and probably even more if you used an AMR (robotised trolley) to take the physical load of moving a large trolley off the picker. AMRs are shaping up to be entry level automation that even smaller businesses can afford. Tom Culver of The Robot Factory can fill you in on these if you want to explore this further. I know the latest automated storage and retrieval systems get a lot of attention but without the order volume, you cannot justify the cost. So they are overkill for most businesses. I'll also note that I used my M4 iPad to record this video as my old PC was not handling the transitions smoothly. Technology marches on, and if you are stuck in your old ways it might be costing you more than you think. hashtag#Warehouse hashtag#Ecommerce hashtag#WMS hashtag#Robots hashtag#WarehouseDesign

Location planning in warehousing is incredibly difficult, many warehouses build up over time into a mess of random locations and use traditional, wasteful, wide racking. Here is a quick demo of the free bin location planning template I provide to my clients. For an in-depth tutorial find my YouTube: youtube.com/watch?v=WBxj5c… To receive this package and for any other logistics help find me on Linkedin or book a free logistics checkup on my website. #logistics #warehouse #shipping #logistica #supplychain #transportation #freight #management #logisticscompany #inventorymanagement #freightforwarding #warehousemanagement #b2b #microsolutions #erpsoftware #business #businesssolutions #erp #supplychainManagement #Efficiency #Productivity #BestPractices #WMS

A traditional warehouse layout with aisle widths of 4.5m is extremely inefficient. if you're looking to scale up, aisle widths are one of the most important things to consider. A logistics Cloud Co WMS includes a bespoke layout design that will increase efficiency of your staff and equipment so that you can scale without stress. Book a free logistics checkup, or a WMS demo through logisticscloudco.com. #logistics #warehouse #shipping #logistica #supplychain #transportation #freight #management #logisticscompany #inventorymanagement #freightforwarding #warehousemanagement #b2b #microsolutions #erpsoftware #business #businesssolutions #erp #supplychainManagement #Efficiency #Productivity #BestPractices #wms