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The first thing CFOs know is that order fulfillment centers and warehouses are cost centers.
These are the points of transits and here, pick, pack, and order efficiency is very important if the CFO has to keep the costs low.
So pick, pack, and order efficiency is nothing but the time taken for a warehouse worker to pick the units and pack them for each and every single order.
For every second shaved off in this process, the CFO will save a lot of dough.
Also, with rising warehouse space costs, the CFO must be able to control costs at every level.
This can affect the bottom line of a firm.
So in this scenario, the CFO is right now focusing on the supply chain along with her COO or the Operations director and asks the question, “How and where can I cut costs in my supply chain?”
From the CFO’s perspective, Automated dimensioning can help in reducing costs on two fronts:
The first: shipping chargebacks
With transportation charges on the higher side, a good automated dimensioning system at a price point of say 2,500 – 5,000 dollars or leased at a cost as low as 150 USD per month will mean that they can have more accurate dimensioning to lower chargebacks and fines.
The second: space-saving
With an increase in throughput, you need lesser space.
Our customers’ experience using our vMeasure Automated dimensioning systems has seen over 20-25% efficiency improvement in the picking and packing times.
This improves throughput. And increased throughput means smaller spaces, thus saving a CFO money.
This is some of the ways CFOs are aided by a firm’s usage of Automated Parcel dimensioning systems.
This is Alphonse, Product Manager of VisAI Labs, and this is the logistics insights of today.
