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5 Best Practices To Improve Your Warehouse Productivity

A warehouse is a complicated and busy supply chain environment, where it’s difficult to get a genuine understanding of what is going on. Information analytics on warehouse goes under activity profiling, which carefully measures the activity in warehouse and analyses it measurably. The initial step of any warehouse undertaking is to understand the customer orders, […]

Five Reasons Automation is Key to Warehouse Success

From the outside, one might regard the order fulfilment business as much the same as it has been over the past 100 years. After all, isn’t it still getting things from shelves and getting them out of the door? That might be true, but the ways in which we do that have changed dramatically. Put […]

Why Should You Move from Paper Based Picking to an Automated Picking System?

Let’s face it, keeping up with the likes of Amazon is far from an easy task. The sheer scale of their business is intimidating, and their warehouses equally vast. Nevertheless, Amazon are now making inroads on delivering orders within the same day they’re placed – something that was thought near impossible not too long ago. […]

Ways to Improve Order Picking Productivity

Ever wondered how to increase customer satisfaction and improve your order picking productivity? Managing your customers orders properly can lead to increased productivity and improved customer satisfaction. This article will provide you an insight into the ways by which order picking and the warehouse procedures can be improved to get your company’s fulfilment optimised. Digitalization […]

Keymas K-Pick and SAP Picking conveyor systems integration

Read the case study of our K-Pick automated paperless picking system integrated with SAP for a customer. Or download the case study on our case studies page. Summary A leading distributor of assembly and fasters, who were an exsisting Keymas conveyor customer, needed to integrate into the new worldwide deployment of the SAP system. Keymas […]

Should Your Ecommerce Website Support Bitcoin Payments?

Since its creation in 2009, Bitcoin has gone through an astonishing rise. Along the way, it’s hit value highs of over $1000 per Bitcoin, been touted as a viable alternative to traditional forms of money and is now even being considered for currency status by the Japanese government. Whilst the hype surrounding the currency has […]

New visual for 3D conveyor layout

We just thought we would share our 3D layout that we are using as a visual for our K-Pick system (view more on the conveyor picking system here). The layout are used as a representative layout of a typical application of K-Pick. This includes the conveyor, goods in, put away, stock, picking and despatch. Also, […]

Different Warehouse Picking Methods

Despite the amount of research invested in warehouse management, many will testify how cumbersome a task finding an efficient strategy in order picking can be. The general overview of order picking is that a business receives its products, which are then distributed to various locations throughout the warehouse. Pickers are then assigned to fulfil these […]

Warehouse picking efficiency infographic

Looking to improve warehouse picker efficiency? Here is an infographic based on research showing where pickers time is taken up in the warehouse.

Black Friday 2015: How to prepare your warehouse

Black Friday may have started out in the US but these days it’s a big deal in the UK too. This year it will take place on 27th November, so mark it on your calendar – it’s going to be the biggest shopping day of 2015!