Welcome to the 15 October Warehouse & Logistics News. In tough economic times building and maintaining a good reputation is crucial in winning and keeping customers. As recent stories in the headlines make clear, reputations that have taken years to establish can easily be dashed overnight when damaging facts come to light. It’s true of banks. It’s true of individuals. And much the same can happen with a warehousing and logistics business if service levels slip or worse, accidents happen and word gets round.
In this issue, we’ve got features on warehouse IT and warehouse lighting, two key areas of a warehouse operation that are essential to working safely and efficiently and hence maintaining your reputation for excellence among your customers. Our Warehouse I.T. feature covers the devices area, taking in RFID, barcodes, readers, scanners, tags, labels and handheld technology. And in Warehouse Lighting we look at smart lighting solutions for today’s warehouses, including LED, energy-efficient, long-life and sensor-activated systems.
For warehouse and logistics operations maintaining a good reputation is like looking after your health. Implementing best working practice and sticking to it does much to help ensure your reputation with customers stays unsullied – quite simply because it means there’s less chance of things going wrong.
The warehouse IT marketplace has changed drastically in a few short years, thanks in part to the same advances in devices and in mobile telecoms technology that have transformed our lives as consumers. But just as when choosing a new phone, the ultimate objective when selecting new technology for use in the warehouse must be a clear understanding of what you want it to bring to the business in improved performance and other areas that will help you meet your customer service agreements.
The buzzword in warehouse lighting these days is ‘smart.’ Of course it’s great for your green credentials for your warehouse lighting to be environmentally friendly and energy efficient, but the bottom line is, it must still serve its purpose and make the workplace bright enough for people to see what they’re doing.
As the HSE’s website www.hse.gov.uk makes clear, by law every workplace must have “suitable and sufficient” lighting for safety in manoeuvring areas, yards, pedestrian areas, anywhere traffic movements take place, along with appropriate warning signs and line markings. The bottom line is that visual acuity and hence forklift operations, picking rates and productivity generally, are all much better in bright light. Don’t be in the dark about warehouse lighting!
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