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How To Prevent Damage To Your Warehouse Racks

Posted by Jason Tindley

Warehouse pallet racking is critical to the efficient operation of a warehouse, as well-designed systems can increase productivity, versatility, and space. Preventing damage to your warehouse racking assets is, therefore, crucial. What steps can you take to avoid damage and downtime?

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Topics: Warehouse Design

Grow Where You’re Planted: How To Optimise Your Warehouse Space For Growth Without Moving Premises

Posted by Jason Tindley

When your business is thriving, but your warehouse is too small for your rising stock levels, you face a dilemma. Moving to a new warehouse is expensive and logistically challenging; however, taking no action will limit your inventory and risk the loss of lucrative sales in the long-term.

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Topics: Transport Planning

5 Keys To Effective Supply Chain Management

Posted by Jason Tindley

Efficiency underpins all successful supply chains. With modern customers and clients expecting rapid fulfilment – and prepared to shop elsewhere if goods don’t arrive quickly enough – every part of the supply chain needs to be meticulously monitored to ensure that products reach their destination on time.

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Topics: Supply Chain Strategy

4 Of The Biggest Supply Chain Problems of 2022 And How To Work Around Them

Posted by Jason Tindley

2020 was a pivotal year for global supply chains as Covid-19 wreaked havoc on virtually all aspects of society but, while the shadows of the pandemic linger, other problems have surfaced which continue to present challenges for supply chain managers. In this article, we discuss some of the main supply chain problems and explain how, at LPC International, we can help you to overcome these.

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Topics: Supply Chain Strategy

Why You Need A Dedicated WMS – Not Just An ERP

Posted by Jason Tindley

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software is often regarded as a one-stop solution for businesses seeking to streamline their core processes, improve interdepartmental collaboration, and reduce costs.

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Topics: Warehouse Management System

The 4 Most Important Warehouse Design Considerations

Posted by Jason Tindley

Most businesses that sell physical products need warehouse space to store their goods; however, too often proper consideration isn’t given to warehouse design, so many storage facilities are underperforming as a result.

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Topics: Warehouse Design

6 Trends In Warehousing Systems 2022

Posted by Jason Tindley

Warehouse Management Systems (WMS) are continually changing in response to developments in software coding, cloud-based Internet, mobile devices, warehouse automation, and the Internet of Things (IoT). 2022 is set to be an interesting year for WMS developers and the businesses that use their platforms. However, it isn’t just the software that’s changing, but also the wider processes, machinery and systems used to manage warehouses more generally. Modern warehouse management innovations include a heady blend of cloud-based software, green power, robotics, and AI, among others.

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Topics: Warehouse Management System, Warehouse Productivity

Minimising Transport Resource Requirement

Posted by Jason Tindley

Improving efficiency and reducing delivery costs should be an ongoing process for all businesses that need to deliver their products, and the current surge in fuel prices and driver costs alongside the shortage of drivers has made this even more important.

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Topics: Transport Planning

What Are The Most Important Factors In Effective Transport Planning?

Posted by Jason Tindley

Transport planning plays a crucial role in optimising every aspect of the logistics sector. However, the coordination of rail, sea, and road transportation is complex and is becoming increasingly challenging due to recent price pressures on fuel, and the continuing shortage of trained HGV drivers.

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What Is A Circular Supply Chain In Logistics?

Posted by Jason Tindley

The term ‘circular economy’ has been increasingly discussed at a local and international level. In the UK, its estimated that transitioning to a circular economy could help meet up to 80% of the country’s carbon budget. Since the supply chain/distribution services sector is the backbone of the economy, playing an essential role in manufacturing, retail, and construction, it’s clear that the principles of the circular economy also affect this sector. In this article, we explain what a circular supply chain is and the benefits of implementing one.

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Topics: Logistics Planning