Warehouse management
Manufacturers and retailers are increasingly outsourcing the management of their warehouses and distribution centres to specialist logistics service providers (LSPs).
How does it work?
Moving beyond storage
Today’s LSPs take goods from various sources and then bundle them for the same or similar destinations or sort them for different destinations. Sometimes, storage is not involved at all and goods are moved on immediately. At other times, LSPs even assemble retail displays.
For this kind of complex warehouse management you need close collaboration among all of your trading partners. Our standards help cooperation and coordination by allowing accurate real-time information to be accessed by everyone involved.
Benefits of our standards
- Makes the management of inbound and outbound flows more efficient
- Ensures inventory information is precise and timely
- Reduces warehouse stock and increases on-shelf stock
- Improves the consolidation and bundling of deliveries
- Saves time and reduces manual errors
Unilever and GS1
Unilever operates several dozen warehouses across Europe with its logistics partners. It collaborated with DHL Supply Chain on a pilot project to use GS1 standards at warehouses in the UK, Spain, Hungary, Belgium and Slovakia. Support and maintenance costs dropped. The efficiency gains were so dramatic that the standards are now being rolled out across all warehouses in Europe.
Any questions?
We can help you get started or show you how to improve what you’re already doing with our standards in transport and logistics.