As I have been digging more into the system we use at work to manage inventory, the more I come to realize how far behind we are in being able to use to use it to help the people at the floor to be more efficient.
Even though we are set to use it along with other tools to have a better control over the inventory, and to help the people who are filling the orders not to lose time finding the items they need. Not only that, it would help to have a better flow of information among all the areas.
As things are, there is a lot of lag on how the information flows. That lag really hurts us since not all the areas are at the same page at the same time, with all the misunderstandings and confusion that in brings. The most important thing, is that the table is set in other to have the information flowing in a timely manner to the people who need it.
Most importantly, the data bases needed to work with are already there. Now, what is needed is to use them to create information that is valuable and get it where is needed at the right time.
There are already plans to start having more tools on the floor to make this a reality, and I can only see it making the whole process a lot more efficient and easy to follow. At the moment, there are too many blind spots that make improvement a bit tricky. Eliminating those blind spots, means that when an area of improvement is detected it can be done much faster.
Not only that, areas where value can be added can be identified a lot faster. The same goes to those areas that are not really needed, and should be dropped. The energy can be better directed to improve things, and to add value to costumers.
If we really follow that path, I've high hopes.
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