As autumn sets in, the pace at many warehouses begins to pick up. With the summer off-season just behind us, wave after wave of inventory preparations for the second half of the year is rolling in. Forklifts are running more frequently than usual, and stock turnover is accelerating. Yet few people t
Walk into many manufacturing workshops, and you’ll see a familiar scene: several sets of molds either stacked on the floor or placed on wooden pallets, with spacers and cardboard piled nearby. When they’re needed, a veteran technician leads a team in rummaging through them for ages, while forklift
Many business owners are taken aback the first time they seriously crunch the numbers. Warehouse rent is based on floor area, but no inventory is stored in the aisles between shelves, the open spaces where forklifts turn, or the pedestrian walkways. The more sparsely the goods are stacked and the