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Question answered in Quora - How do I manage the surge in warehousing requirements during peak perio


Here are some things you can do, we go through that every year here in the US, they are

1 - Black Friday sale

2- Christmas to some extent

3- Back to School

Here are the things that can be done

1- Hire temp workers to increase the throughput during that time

2-Make sure all these temp workers have tools to do their job, like the scan guns, fork lifts, safety equipment etc

3-Make sure these temp workers are fully trained as well, they know what they are doing and what functions to execute especially when all the orders are flowing through in such a fast pace

4- If needed rent additional space only for the two months,

5- Try your best to understand what is coming in and then identify SKUs that are really fast moving during this time for and have processes to handle them effectively, for example the pencils, Pens, erasers, notebooks those are shipped a lot in bulk, so it would make sense to have some fast moving bins or separate cordoned off areas locations to fulfill orders that require those items for example processes around 1Z items/orders

6-Also make sure all the systems you use are fully functional to its top speed, so that way you can work at the highest pace shipping orders

The last thing you want is the thing to fail and you guys not shipping your orders.

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Puga Sankara is the co-founder of Smart Gladiator LLC. Smart Gladiator designs, builds, and delivers market-leading mobile technology consisting of Smart Gladiator Wearable Scanguns, Tablets, Mobile Tech & Apps for retailers, distributors, and 3PL service providers. So far, Smart Gladiator Wearables have been used to ship, receive, and scan more than 100 million boxes. Users love them for the lightweight, easy-to-use soft overlay keyboard, texting&video chatting ability, data collection ability etc. Puga is a supply chain technology professional with more than 17 years of experience in deploying capabilities in the logistics and supply chain domain. His prior roles involved managing complicated mission-critical programs driving revenue numbers, rolling out a multitude of capabilities involving more than a dozen systems, and managing a team of 30 to 50 personnel across multiple disciplines and departments in large corporations such as Hewlett Packard. He has deployed WMS for more than 30 distribution centers in his role as a senior manager with Manhattan Associates. He has also performed process analysis walk-throughs for more than 50 distribution centers for WMS process design and performance analysis review, optimizing processes for better productivity and visibility through the supply chain. Size of these DCs varied from 150,000 to 1.2 million SQFT. Puga Sankara has an MBA from Georgia Tech. He can be reached at puga@smartgladiator.com or visit the company at www.smartgladiator.com. Also follow him at www.pugasankara.com

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