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?

Your warehouse is throttling your business and limiting your ability to grow, but what is the answer? Employing more people whilst increasing your operational costs; moving to a purpose-built site on that shiny new development around the corner or investment in automation? If your goal is boosting operational efficiency increasing headcount or relocation may offer … Continue reading The Advantages of Warehouse Automation

The fundamentals of warehouse management systems – part two Here is our second blog in the series: The fundamentals of warehouse management systems. In our first blog we asked ‘what is a warehouse management system?’ And provided an overview of what such a system can offer.  Our second blog looks at the types of warehouse management … Continue reading What type of warehouse management system (WMS) do I need?

  With Christmas a distant memory you can now breath a sigh of relief.  And if you run a warehouse or logistics operation now is also a good time to ‘take five’ and reflect on how well your operations coped with the increased output demands of the season. Did your warehouse struggle to meet productivity levels? … Continue reading Four pillars of warehouse automation – how to improve warehouse efficiency in 2018

Picking methods need to be accurate, labour saving and timely. The best picking method is dependent on the product type and volume of orders and how many picks per order. Piece picking is where individual products are picked, typical of mail order companies, there are thousands of products on the inventory but only a few … Continue reading Custom Picking Methods

Working with UCH, Keymas offered a tailored version of it’s advanced warehouse management system, K-Store

Here is an infographic we produced to show the to key 5 areas of a warehouse management system. Click on the infographic to view a larger version. The key areas are: 1) Goods in 2) Put away 3) Stock 4) Picking 5) Despatch

With more and more people shopping online and delivery times being shorter than ever before, businesses are having to re-think their processes and invest in new logistics technology in order to keep up with the ever-quickening pace. Today customers’ expectations for speedy delivery are extremely high, so in order to remain competitive, businesses must aim … Continue reading Is your warehouse same day ready?

Managing a warehouse is about more than just organisation. With the pressure on the supply chain managing a warehouse is about enabling your operation to become efficient, streamline and nowadays, a little bit savvy. The basic aim is simple, receive goods in, hold them for as long as the sales department needs you to (hopefully … Continue reading Manage the Warehouse

In the latest of a series of articles from members of the Automated Material Handling Systems Association (AMHSA), John Barton, Managing Director of Keymas Ltd, examines warehouse management systems. At the fall of France in 1940, the French had over two thousand modern fighter planes – more than twice the number deployed by the victorious … Continue reading Article: WMS, one size does not fit all