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Puzzled about RFID?

February 28th, 2009 | By: Martin Arrand

Last week I was talking to a colleague who had been involved in a pre-sales pitch with an RFID technology partner. He had come out of the presentation feeling very frustrated – he hadn’t felt he had learned any more about RFID than the very basic stuff he already knew, and certainly not enough to [...]

50 ways to make your warehouse seem bigger

November 8th, 2008 | By: Martin Arrand

There’s a commercial profile of Aricia Limited in this month’s Logistics and Transport Focus – I’d not heard of them, but it appears to be a micro-consultancy in the supply chain field, run by Kirsten Tisdale who wrote the Focus article. Kirsten’s website has a one-page document available to download entitled 50 ways to make [...]

What level of availability should my warehouse give?

September 13th, 2007 | By: Martin Arrand

This is a question that arises with frightening regularity. Although we generally want both availability and stock turn to continue improving over the long term (and there are various methods of achieving that), nonetheless there are some theoretical limits to those numbers, together with a requirement to decide the availability target for right now. Let’s [...]

Storage capacity calculator – try it out

August 14th, 2007 | By: Martin Arrand

I have added a permanent page containing a storage capacity calculator that I have put together. This little widget is based on something I knocked up years ago to aid warehouse planning and design. Please follow the link under the site banner or click here for the storage capacity calculator.

Lean and inventory misconceptions

April 10th, 2007 | By: Martin Arrand

I was interested to find an article in this month’s Logistics & Transport Focus headed “No more lean times: why inventory is not waste and warehouses add value”. The author, Steve Sordy, has chosen a title that is a kind of teasing of the more dogmatic of lean devotees – British culture has little patience [...]

Toshiba’s reusable paper won’t catch on in the warehouse

November 23rd, 2006 | By: Martin Arrand

I have just seen this BBC story on Toshiba’s reusable paper technology. The innovation is a form of PET plastic paper with a thermally-active layer that allows each sheet to be erased and reprinted around 500 times. Their thermal printer will output around 12 sheets a minute.