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#Challenges
1. Inventory accuracy

With increasingly high expectations from customers and clients, inventory tracking is becoming more critical to
warehouse management, which minimizes the room for human error. 

Failed deliveries cost time and money, and with physical checks to correct errors leading to delayed shipments
and mis-picks, you’re wasting even more. 

2. Picking optimization

Picking is where a majority of warehouse management problems occur. According to general statistics walking
and manually picking orders can account for more than 50% of the time associated with picking.

Where tasks are done in a hurry, errors that cost time and money will disrupt your inventory control systems. 

3. Labour costs

Increasing productivity while reducing labour costs is a balancing act for many warehouse managers. Using
expensive equipment and large labour forces, from cleaners and packers to managers and administrators, has
become a bigger issue due to the Covid-19 pandemic and the impact of social distancing and vulnerable staff
members.

4. Redundant processes

With most warehouses performing several operations in multiple workflows at one time, it becomes increasingly
likely that some actions, such as sorting, may repeat unnecessarily, leading to an increase in labour cost and
taking up time you don’t have. 

#Solution

1.Inventory accuracy

Improve your inventory management accuracy and reduce your potential for downtime-inducing and costly
mistakes by using inventory tracking, asset tagging with an RFID system and warehouse automation.

 2. Picking optimization

A warehouse management system (WMS) will improve picking optimization by automatically generating picking
lists and displaying the available inventory on a real-time basis. This system means pickers can see the status of
orders when they come in to see when demand will increase. 

You can also improve your processes by tracking picking metrics such as time to ship, total units to storage,
picking accuracy, warehouse capacity and inventory turnover. With these measurements in place, managers can
discover which areas are performing better than others and which stages need further work. 
3. Labour costs

By using automated systems, Automated Guided Vehicles (AGVs) can take on repetitive manual tasks, ensuring
employees can focus on more important, strategic tasks. 

AGVs follow digital paths through a warehouse and offer the ability to load and unload pallets, boxes and other
containers for more efficient and cost-effective goods handling.

4. Redundant processes

By deleting unnecessary or obsolete steps, automation can make the process more agile and increase speed,
ultimately improving client experience and reducing your costs.