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Warehouse #2
By contrast, this warehouse makes warehousekeeping a priority,
enabling a virtuous circle of improvement and efficiency to reign,
resulting in a number of valuable benefits for the company.
Here are some key benefits:
1. Good warehousekeeping is important for employee safety. Employees are the
company's number one asset, and must be treated as such.
2. Good warehousekeeping leads to better customer service through greatly
improved inventory management, faster receiving, put-away, picking and
shipping times, savings in labor costs, and reducing expensive errors.
3. Cleanliness in the warehouse builds confidence. It shows that there are
standards and pride in the operations.
4. A clean warehouse means lower cost of inventory and improved fill rates. It
also allows staff to monitor product shelf life far more easily and account for
obsolescence and write-offs.
5. Last, but not least, good warehousekeeping helps a warehouse eliminate the
need for 'fear stock,' which is over-buying because you don't trust what you
have on hand or what's been allocated.
