Ever wondered what type of change can dramatically impact the warehouse industry?
What do you think you’ll take away from this episode?
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Podcast Transcript:
The warehousing industry will drastically transform in the coming years due to the expanding level of automation within the companies.
This episode discusses the top four factors that drive a massive change in the warehouse industry.
Number 1. Labor conditions
Several warehouse and logistics sectors see labour scarcity as the main challenge that they have to deal with.
The deployment of AI in the warehouse can make a tremendous revolution in terms of the utilisation of warehouse employees.
But this doesn’t mean mitigating the headcount, but with AI, you can automate several iterative tasks and assign the other high-priority tasks to the warehouse associates.
The second is shorter fulfilment times
Several warehouses and order fulfilment centres are under constant pressure to accomplish the tasks promptly and precisely.
The warehouse giants like Amazon, with its prompt delivery, managed to shape customer expectations by delivering products free of cost in a promised time frame which drives other small and large-scale warehouse industries to race faster to attract customers and gain a decent profit.
The last is increasing multi-channel distribution networks
Consumers want things to be available in multiple locations, so a multi-channel strategy makes sense.
Problems may arise if you can’t keep up with having several channels.
For example, your warehouse may have redundant operations, and inability to satisfy seasonal demand, erroneous stock level displays, or sluggish order fulfilment.
These seemingly tiny flaws will mount up, resulting in a dissatisfied customer experience and loss of brand value.
So my dear friends, with the above-discussed factors, you can effectively drive massive change in the warehouse industry, and that’s the logistics insight for today. Bye.
