7. July 2020
Rack zones – Overview
A storage rack, both in intralogistics and retail, can be divided into different horizontal racking zones. This usually results in four racking zones, which are named as follows from bottom to top Bending zone Gripping zone Viewing zone Stretch…
7. May 2020
The Bullwhip effect
The bullwhip effect describes coordination and communication problems in multi-stage supply chains - mostly in so-called fragmented supply chains. It can be localised thanks to fluctuations in production planning and logistics planning (price…
7. May 2020
Radio Frequency Identification (RFID)
Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) is a technology for the unambiguous and contact-free identification of objects (goods, living beings and states) of any kind. It enables fast and automatic data acquisition using electromagnetic waves with the…
5. May 2020
The range of storage
The range of storage is a key figure which expresses the internal security of supply by own stocks of a certain article within a particular article within a certain time. The range of storage indicates how long a stock will last to fulfil existing…
1. April 2020
Turnover rate and Rotation of goods: Fast and slow movers
The inventory turnover, also known as the inventory turnover rate or inventory turnover coefficient, expresses how often an average inventory is completely withdrawn and replaced in a given period (usually a financial year). As a key figure, it can…
25. November 2019
Allocation strategies for warehouse and picking systems/warehouse operation strategies
In a company, it is vital to set goals before developing strategies and to monitor their consistency and achievability continually. In logistics, there are strategies for planning new systems, implementing them and optimising existing systems during…
6. February 2019
Advantages and disadvantages: centralized and decentralized warehouse
In distribution logistics, the determination of warehouse locations represents a strategic decision. A basic distinction is made between centralized and decentralized locations, which can have different effects on logistics costs (see also…
7. November 2018
Inventory in companies and in logistics
In the inventory, the assets of a company are determined on a key date; in this way, assets and liabilities are specifically documented. Such an inventory is a prerequisite for correct bookkeeping and accounting.
29. August 2018
Storage maintenance costs – warehousing costs or storage costs
Trading companies and manufacturing companies usually have a warehouse or distribution centre. Raw materials and supplies, intermediate products, semi-finished products, finished products and spare parts are stored there. The storage of these goods…
31. July 2018
Point of sale systems, warehouse management and branch logistics
A cash register system, also known as a POS system, is software that documents a specific financial transaction of an inventory or a good. In general, the POS system describes the entirety of all clients (hardware) and associated software used that…
1. August 2017
Product Lifecycle Management (PLM)
The term Product Lifecycle Management, PLM for short, describes a holistic approach to pooling product information. It is a kind of cross-company management and control of the information flow of a product along the entire value chain. The industry…
11. July 2017
Replenishment in intralogistics
Replenishment (also referred to as Supply) is an elementary process in today's merchandise management, which contributes to the overall efficiency of the material flow if it is integrated as well as possible into the existing warehouse management…
12. May 2017
The Supply Chain Management (SCM)
Supply chain management (SCM) stands for the monitoring process as well as the coordination and control of the supply chain (value chain). This involves the allocation of all materials, information and the finances distributed along the supply chain…
30. March 2017
Conveying aids in intralogistics
In intralogistics, conveying equipment is used to combine individual goods into larger load units. In general, the following definition applies: intralogistics uses conveying equipment to protect different goods, make them ready for loading,…
22. March 2017
Order picking times – Dead time
Dead time is an unproductive but unavoidable so-called auxiliary time, which arises during picking due to preparatory and follow-up activities (e.g. search and identification of the storage location). It can be optimized by simple measures.
23. February 2017
Advantages of RFID technology over barcodes
What advantages does RFID radio technology have over barcodes? This question has also been on the agenda of intralogistics for some time now. In principle, more information is available with the conventional use of RFID. Moreover, logistics and…
9. February 2017
The storage location management
The storage location management ensures that a storage location is recorded or occupied in width, height and depth. It covers two different topological aspects. On the one hand the overall structure of the warehouse and thus the positions of the…
12. January 2017
Materials management in production and logistics
Materials management controls the material flow within a company as well as order-related material flows to customers and suppliers. As a rule, the focus is on the business management and thus commercial aspects. Seen from above, it links all the…
19. September 2016
Distributed Order Management
Distributed Order Management basically the consideration of all companies involved in an order as well as the responsible personnel. Producers, logisticians, suppliers and dealers try to solve questions about tasks or orders that are to be processed…
24. August 2016
Inventory costs
Inventory costs are costs that arise from the movement of product goods in the warehouse or distribution center. They are a key figure from business management. Inventory costs in general include, for example, warehouse rent, personnel, energy, and…
19. July 2016
Inventory management in intralogistics, incl. stock and stock reconciliation
Inventory management stands for the complete digital recording of all stock movements in intralogistics in order to obtain reliable information about the storage location (where?), quantity (how much?), and quality (what?) of all products at any…
25. April 2016
Definition – WMS – The Warehouse Management System
The Warehouse Management System (WMS) is an indispensable software for the control and administration of stocks (see also Inventory Management) and storage locations within closed operations (e.g. distribution centers or manufacturing plants). It…
7. April 2016
CMR: the consignment note
The term CMR comes from the French, Convention relative au Contrat de transport international de marchandises par route. It describes the agreement of all participating states on the contract for the international carriage of goods by road. All…
7. March 2016
Stock Keeping Unit (SKU)
The acronym SKU, Stock Keeping Unit, describes a clearly identifiable storage unit. A storage unit comprises all identical articles of a particular product variant. For identification purposes, a code is applied to the respective SKU, which clearly…
26. January 2016
The Newsvendor Model in SCM
Many supply chain management (SCM) approaches can be explained using the Newsvendor Model (NVM). This model, which originally comes from inventory management, evaluates both the costs of excessively high inventories and the costs of excessively low…
15. January 2016
The cost of unused opportunities in supply chain management
No company can afford not to have the cost side under control. The figures from financial accounting serve as the basis for this. In many cases, the figures for the companies' cost accounting are derived from this. A look into the cost accounting of…
7. December 2015
Definition – The Milk Run Concept
The milk run concept is a method for optimizing inter-company procurement logistics, often used in conjunction with just-in-time production. Based on existing consumption values, it describes a logistics supply cycle in which goods or empties are…
1. December 2015
The degree of utilisation/the capacity utilisation
The degree of capacity utilisation describes the proportion of the capacity used by resources/operating resources (plant, machinery, employees, energy) measured against the total available capacity - always in relation to the completion of a work…
21. September 2015
Information in intralogistics
Information describes the meaningful content of a message, which is of value for the recipient. The receiver can be either a human or a machine. The sent or received information does not contain irrelevant or redundant transmissions. In the…
18. September 2015
Returns processing
Returns handling describes several processes in the return of goodsordered - mostly - online. They are processed and handled by the distribution centeraccording to the client's specifications. Looking at returns processing as a whole, the process…
14. September 2015
Storage capacity/storage economy
Storage capacity is defined as the maximum number of loading units that a warehouse can hold. It also represents the actual capacity of a warehouse. It directly relates to the size of the storage area, the height of the warehouse (usable space), the…
26. August 2015
Host system (ERP system)
The host system (usually an ERP system) is a central data processing system that can be accessed simultaneously by different computer systems and programs. Furthermore, in most cases the database(s) is/are also installed on the host. A host can be…
22. July 2015
Heijunka lean method
The Japanese lean method Heijunka pushes a production where the production flow of the parts market is continuously guaranteed despite market fluctuations. This avoids transport and idle times and distributes the time needed for materials over the…
10. July 2015
Assortment width and assortment depth
The assortment available in a warehouse and in the retail trade is subdivided into the assortment dimensions assortment width and assortment depth. The assortment width describes the range of different merchandise, the assortment depth the variety…
14. April 2015
The distribution center
A distribution center is an interface in the form of a building complex that functions exclusively within a logistics network. This can be a warehouse, a transshipment point or both in combination. Usually it is the combination in which goods are…
23. February 2015
The barcode – EAN, GTIN and GS1 standard
Barcodes have successfully established themselves over other systems in recent years. The barcode is a binary code consisting of an array of parallel bars and separation gaps. These are arranged according to a predetermined image and are interpreted…
8. January 2015
Temperature-controlled logistics (environmental measurement)
The market for temperature-controlled logistics in particular has been growing in volume over the past few years. Refrigerated and frozen foods, as well as medication logistics, rely on the benefits of RFID technology. The core functions in such…
16. September 2014
Data Mart: the local warehouse database analysis
Data mart describes the use of a database that is only a department-specific part of the overall data warehouse. For this reason, it is also referred to as the departmental database. Generally, such an extract from the entire database is used to…
27. June 2014
Defintion and advantages of consignment
The term consignment refers to a form of delivery of goods in which the supplier acts as consignor and the customer as the consignee. The consignor is the owner of the goods until either an agreed period expires or the consignee removes the goods…
19. March 2014
Master data
In intralogistics, master data, also known as primary data or reference data, is data that contains operationally relevant information. This includes information about products, suppliers and customers, for example. Individual data is assigned to an…
3. February 2014
Storage and retrieval machine
A storage and retrieval machine (SRM) is a storage device with which load units can be stored, transferred and retrieved. The storage, transfer and retrieval performance of a storage system depends on the following factors of the storage equipment…
29. November 2013
Replenishment – Basics
Before, during or even after the picking business process, goods are often replenished. Managing and allocating replenishment is one of the tasks of supply chain management. By using a warehouse management system, it can be ensured before starting a…
14. November 2013
Overview of common manufacturing principles
Different principles can be applied in manufacturing. Some products are manufactured according to forecasts, without specific sales order With other products production only starts after the reception of a sales order. Push and pull systems…
28. October 2013
Advance Shipping Notice
An Advance Shipping Notice (ASN), also advice note or avis, is a piece of preliminary information on the delivery of goods or the delivery of payment. In the following, this article will use the abbreviation ASN. ASN in the movement of goods Due to…
17. September 2013
Mobile and stationary loading units
Loading units are collections of goods that are transported, transhipped or stored as they pass through the supply chain. In contrast to stationary units, mobile units can be freely transported, stacked and moved. Mobile loading units Good examples…
5. September 2013
Cycle time procedure
Goods are fed from the main warehouse to the picking area manually, as a precaution or on-demand. Depending on which criterion drives the replenishment, either the staging procedure, the reorder point procedure or the cycle time procedure is…
21. August 2013
Reorder point procedure
Goods are fed from the main warehouse to the picking area manually, as a precaution or on demand. Depending on which criterion drives the replenishment, either the reorder point procedure, the staging procedure or the cycle time procedure is…
15. July 2013
Warehouse strategy – LIFO vs FIFO
LIFO (last-in-first-out) and FIFO (first-in-first-out) are two different strategies for storing and retrieving goods. Last-in-first-out The last-in-first-out principle describes a storage strategy in which the goods that were put into storage last…
15. July 2013
Kanban system
The Kanban system is a planning system for production control. the Kanban system is often split into material flow and replenishment are controlled starting from the processing location, based on the goods used here. Since it is not possible to act…
15. July 2013
Definition – Automatic small parts warehouse
An "automated small parts warehouse" (AS/RS) is a storage system in which small-volume units such as screws or electronic parts are stored. Small parts warehouses are always automated in comparison to high-bay warehouses. An AS/RS consists of the…
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7. July 2020
Rack zones – Overview
A storage rack, both in intralogistics and retail, can be divided into different horizontal racking…
7. May 2020
The Bullwhip effect
The bullwhip effect describes coordination and communication problems in multi-stage supply chains…
7. May 2020
Radio Frequency Identification (RFID)
Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) is a technology for the unambiguous and contact-free…
5. May 2020
The range of storage
The range of storage is a key figure which expresses the internal security of supply by own stocks…
1. April 2020
Turnover rate and Rotation of goods: Fast and slow movers
The inventory turnover, also known as the inventory turnover rate or inventory turnover…
25. November 2019
Allocation strategies for warehouse and picking systems/warehouse operation strategies
In a company, it is vital to set goals before developing strategies and to monitor their…
6. February 2019
Advantages and disadvantages: centralized and decentralized warehouse
In distribution logistics, the determination of warehouse locations represents a strategic…
7. November 2018
Inventory in companies and in logistics
In the inventory, the assets of a company are determined on a key date; in this way, assets and…
29. August 2018
Storage maintenance costs – warehousing costs or storage costs
Trading companies and manufacturing companies usually have a warehouse or distribution centre. Raw…
31. July 2018
Point of sale systems, warehouse management and branch logistics
A cash register system, also known as a POS system, is software that documents a specific financial…
1. August 2017
Product Lifecycle Management (PLM)
The term Product Lifecycle Management, PLM for short, describes a holistic approach to pooling…
11. July 2017
Replenishment in intralogistics
Replenishment (also referred to as Supply) is an elementary process in today's merchandise…
12. May 2017
The Supply Chain Management (SCM)
Supply chain management (SCM) stands for the monitoring process as well as the coordination and…
30. March 2017
Conveying aids in intralogistics
In intralogistics, conveying equipment is used to combine individual goods into larger load units.…
22. March 2017
Order picking times – Dead time
Dead time is an unproductive but unavoidable so-called auxiliary time, which arises during picking…
23. February 2017
Advantages of RFID technology over barcodes
What advantages does RFID radio technology have over barcodes? This question has also been on the…
9. February 2017
The storage location management
The storage location management ensures that a storage location is recorded or occupied in width,…
12. January 2017
Materials management in production and logistics
Materials management controls the material flow within a company as well as order-related material…
19. September 2016
Distributed Order Management
Distributed Order Management basically the consideration of all companies involved in an order as…
24. August 2016
Inventory costs
Inventory costs are costs that arise from the movement of product goods in the warehouse or…
19. July 2016
Inventory management in intralogistics, incl. stock and stock reconciliation
Inventory management stands for the complete digital recording of all stock movements in…
25. April 2016
Definition – WMS – The Warehouse Management System
The Warehouse Management System (WMS) is an indispensable software for the control and…
7. April 2016
CMR: the consignment note
The term CMR comes from the French, Convention relative au Contrat de transport international de…
7. March 2016
Stock Keeping Unit (SKU)
The acronym SKU, Stock Keeping Unit, describes a clearly identifiable storage unit. A storage unit…
26. January 2016
The Newsvendor Model in SCM
Many supply chain management (SCM) approaches can be explained using the Newsvendor Model (NVM).…
15. January 2016
The cost of unused opportunities in supply chain management
No company can afford not to have the cost side under control. The figures from financial…
7. December 2015
Definition – The Milk Run Concept
The milk run concept is a method for optimizing inter-company procurement logistics, often used in…
1. December 2015
The degree of utilisation/the capacity utilisation
The degree of capacity utilisation describes the proportion of the capacity used by…
21. September 2015
Information in intralogistics
Information describes the meaningful content of a message, which is of value for the recipient. The…
18. September 2015
Returns processing
Returns handling describes several processes in the return of goodsordered - mostly - online. They…
14. September 2015
Storage capacity/storage economy
Storage capacity is defined as the maximum number of loading units that a warehouse can hold. It…
26. August 2015
Host system (ERP system)
The host system (usually an ERP system) is a central data processing system that can be accessed…
22. July 2015
Heijunka lean method
The Japanese lean method Heijunka pushes a production where the production flow of the parts market…
10. July 2015
Assortment width and assortment depth
The assortment available in a warehouse and in the retail trade is subdivided into the assortment…
14. April 2015
The distribution center
A distribution center is an interface in the form of a building complex that functions exclusively…
23. February 2015
The barcode – EAN, GTIN and GS1 standard
Barcodes have successfully established themselves over other systems in recent years. The barcode…
8. January 2015
Temperature-controlled logistics (environmental measurement)
The market for temperature-controlled logistics in particular has been growing in volume over the…
16. September 2014
Data Mart: the local warehouse database analysis
Data mart describes the use of a database that is only a department-specific part of the overall…
27. June 2014
Defintion and advantages of consignment
The term consignment refers to a form of delivery of goods in which the supplier acts as consignor…
19. March 2014
Master data
In intralogistics, master data, also known as primary data or reference data, is data that contains…
3. February 2014
Storage and retrieval machine
A storage and retrieval machine (SRM) is a storage device with which load units can be stored,…
29. November 2013
Replenishment – Basics
Before, during or even after the picking business process, goods are often replenished. Managing…
14. November 2013
Overview of common manufacturing principles
Different principles can be applied in manufacturing. Some products are manufactured according to…
28. October 2013
Advance Shipping Notice
An Advance Shipping Notice (ASN), also advice note or avis, is a piece of preliminary information…
17. September 2013
Mobile and stationary loading units
Loading units are collections of goods that are transported, transhipped or stored as they pass…
5. September 2013
Cycle time procedure
Goods are fed from the main warehouse to the picking area manually, as a precaution or on-demand.…
21. August 2013
Reorder point procedure
Goods are fed from the main warehouse to the picking area manually, as a precaution or on demand.…
15. July 2013
Warehouse strategy – LIFO vs FIFO
LIFO (last-in-first-out) and FIFO (first-in-first-out) are two different strategies for storing and…
15. July 2013
Kanban system
The Kanban system is a planning system for production control. the Kanban system is often split…
15. July 2013
Definition – Automatic small parts warehouse
An "automated small parts warehouse" (AS/RS) is a storage system in which small-volume units such…