E-commerce, S-commerce and M-commerce have opened a whole new world of possibilities for traditional bricks and mortar retailers. Selling online offers retailers countless advantages above and beyond the obvious ability to trade twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year with access to a global audience of potential consumers. New … Continue reading Can Warehouse Management Software Help Solve the Returns Challenge?

Warehouse automation in your distribution centre operation can hold a wide range of benefits including (but not limited to) lower building costs, better productivity, lower staff numbers, a smaller inventory, lower running costs and any number of other advantages. To help you understand how you can benefit from automating your warehouse, we’ve put together a … Continue reading Keymas: The Advantages of Automation in the Warehouse

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 … Continue reading Keymas K-Pick and SAP Picking conveyor systems integration

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 … Continue reading Different Warehouse Picking Methods

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

With the ever-increasing popularity of shopping online, ecommerce businesses are keen to make the customers’ shopping experience as straightforward and efficient as possible. Order fulfilment, particularly the picking of products, after purchase by the customer, remains a part of the process vulnerable to delays. Ecommerce giants, Amazon recognised the need to improve their warehouse picking … Continue reading Total automation of the warehouse picking process – are we there yet?

Are you looking for a more efficient way to achieve your warehouse productivity goals? If you need to reduce picking times, increase throughput rates and keep your costs to a minimum, follow our tips below and give your warehouse production levels the ultimate boost. Image source: https://farm7.staticflickr.com/6148/6205837092_1b518ccf7b.jpg 1. Automate your picking operations Using conveyor systems, … Continue reading 7 ways to boost warehouse productivity

Recently online retail giant Amazon made waves in the world of technology when it announced its plans to use unmanned aerial vehicles to deliver customers’ parcels from the warehouses to their doorstep in less than half an hour! The delivery service is called Amazon Prime Air and the use of air drones looks like something … Continue reading What does the future of warehouse distribution look like?

Here at Keymas we know that many of our clients use wooden pallets so we thought we would share a few ways you can effectively recycle them, whilst creating new things for your home.

Most people are familiar with the term Lean Manufacturing: the elimination of waste from manufacturing processes and, in the process, simplifying and adding efficiency to those processes. Lean automation borrows those principles and applies them to automation.