When I internally announced that I was going to leave Amazon, many people could not believe what I was doing. Many more found it hard to believe that I didn’t want to work at Amazon anymore. One of Amazon’s...
Recently, when writing about how to implement a Logistics support system, I shared my own experience and thoughts from the projects I have carried out. Logistics is an interesting area in the organization because, among other...
Do you run a business that is growing so fast that you need a Supply Chain Planning System? Congratulations! You will definitely face a number of challenges, which I wrote about some time ago for the Logistics Manager Magazine...
In his classic In Search of Excellence: Lessons from America’s Best Run Companies, Tom Peters states that ‘sticking to the knitting’ is one of the success factors of the largest companies. In loose translation, it means...
Contrary to appearances, Logistics of an online store is not necessarily a simple task. Over the past 5 years, between 3,000 and 7,000 new online stores have been created in Poland each year. However, 60% of them did not survive...
What requirements should an eCommerce warehouse meet? A question formulated this way resembles searching for the parameters that a sports car should have. A sports car can mean both a Formula 1 car and an off-road car adapted...
In what warehouse equipment should you invest in order to achieve effective Logistics? In the previous article, together with Andrzej Lada-Kubala, who is the Operational Director of Wójcik Furniture, we talked about how...
Creating a warehouse is not an easy task. On the one hand, it is not rocket science. On the other hand, there are a large number of factors involved and a lot of assumptions that have to be made. Regardless of whether we...
Efficient logistics is necessary for the functioning of companies offering physical products or services. Necessary but not sufficient, as I have written in the article – Logistics is not everything. Consequently, when...
I usually write about Logistics and processes in the Supply Chains of retail organizations. This time I am going to make an exception and write a post about ERP, MES, and WMS systems. These systems are indispensable elements of...
In 2020, the last mile evolved. A lot has changed in the way retail works. Several traditional retail chains went bankrupt or reduced their operations, and e-commerce sales exceeded forecasts for several years ahead. We...
