Archief Artikelen » Page 6 of 8

How to reduce your stock by 50% while maintaining the same service level

For any company, one of the biggest capital investments is stock. To put it in perspective: one month’s worth of stock is equivalent to investing just under 10% of your annual revenue. How many projects on that scale have you implemented in the past year? Achieving the right degree of product availability without excessively high...

Direct shipment

The ‘pure’ e-tailers are continuing to evolve and expand, and some of them are in the midst of a process to open their own brick-and-mortar establishments. Almost all traditional retailers now also have a webshop in addition to their physical stores, and most suppliers are working hard – or at least have taken the...

Vacant manufacturing and logistics facilities

The number of vacant industrial premises (manufacturing and logistics facilities) has been growing for many years. The latest figures published recently by Dutch property association NVM showed that 12.6 million square meters of industrial premises are currently standing empty. Logistics facilities account for almost 3 million square meters of that total, and the category has...

Kiva: Turning a material handling application into a success story

It is important to learn from the past. After the failure of online grocery delivery service Webvan, Michael Mountz was able to turn Kiva into a real success story. Kiva, an innovative material handling application, was sold to Amazon last year for 775 million dollars. How did Mountz do it? The use of robots in...

Save transport costs in current traffic situation

Traffic congestion, tight time windows for deliveries, and pressure on transport costs – each of these are valid reasons to take a critical look at transport routes. Route optimization can deliver significant cost savings and improve the service level, especially in the case of a finely meshed customer distribution network. Since this type of distribution...

Trends in WMS

Interfacing between different sofware systems is given more attention since mechanization of physical warehouse processes is being more important. Optimization between WMS en WCS is not always succesfull. Groenewout gives his opinion on this subject in the article 'Trends in WMS; tussen twee systemen in', published in Logistics Magazine, edition 2014 (Dutch version). If you have any questions,...

Growing importance supply chain

Until recently when talking about logistics and supply chains, one often referred to trucks and warehouses. In today’s world we are managing our supply chains on financial logistics parameters, as cash-to-cash cycle time. According to Alain Beerens, managing consultant & partner at Groenewout, the strategic position of Supply Chains is ever more recognized on...

Benchmark your warehouse operations

Are your warehouse processes best-of-breed? Can you identify additional improvements or savings? Benchmarking provides an answer to these questions and will help you improve your performance. Groenewout offers you a free Quick Scan to benchmark your warehouse operations. Our consultants compare it to best in class organizations with the support of our Benchmark Model. Request your...

Online logistics competitive advantage

Groenewout's expert explains in this publication 'online logistiek wordt onderscheidende factor' about competitive advantages of online logistics. This article is published in trade magazine Online Retailer (Dutch version). For questions regarding this article, please contact Arthur Zondervan.

Solar panels and DC’s, an ideal marriage?

You would expect that distribution centers are perfectly suited for solar panels, as they have a large shade free roof surface. And even more, on ground floor level lighting and material handling equipment consume lots of electrical energy. However, in reality there are only a few distribution centers in the Netherlands with solar panels...