Now more than ever, warehouse operations are under pressure: How quickly an order can reach the customer is a differentiator, and competitive advantage. Yet hiring and retaining employees is a constant battle. As a result, warehouses must increase output without additional resources.
At the same time, the warehouse is a cost center. Businesses seeking to keep more cash on hand may freeze or even shrink budgets that cover costs for warehouse storage space, handling, and equipment.
Given this reality and with hundreds, or even thousands, of SKUs to manage, likely across multiple locations, inventory management with pen, paper, and spreadsheets is no longer viable. By their nature, manual processes will always be inaccurate, and the chance of losing data is huge. Manual processes can’t show the most recent sales or arrivals, and that’s a guaranteed path to disappointed customers.
