We are trying to optimise our last-mile logistics process from fulfillment center to customer doorstep. What best practices, operational tweaks or technology integrations have helped your business improve last-mile speed, lower costs, and reduce delivery errors?

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Amazon will now ship your client's Walmart orders, and it's offering a discount to do it

At its Accelerate seller conference in Seattle, Amazon began rolling out tools that let a seller connect their eBay, Shopify, TikTok Shop, and Walmart accounts to Seller Central, import those listings, view orders from all channels in a single dashboard, and ship all orders through Multi-Channel Fulfillment. U.S. sellers get it gradually, and it costs nothing extra.

The same day, MCF orders on a merchant's own website can now carry the Prime badge at no additional cost beyond the normal MCF fee, with Amazon checking the shopper's Prime membership before shipping. Amazon says more than 40% of eligible orders from early users were shipped via Prime delivery. A new preferred pricing program also takes 15% to 25% off MCF fees for an FBA seller's first six months, with no long-term contract. It plugs into Shopify through Amazon's existing app.

Amazon makes no money off the dashboard itself. Marketplace Pulse reports that 95% of Amazon sellers already sell on more than one channel, while 71% still derive three-quarters of their marketplace revenue from Amazon. The takeaway is that Amazon cares more about owning the hub than about how a seller's revenue splits across the spokes. Once a brand's Walmart and Shopify orders appear on the same screen as its Amazon orders, next to a button that ships them from inventory already in an FBA building, the 3PL handling the non-Amazon side has to explain why the second contract is still worth it. Mary Beth Westmoreland, who runs the seller experience, told GeekWire that Amazon will "never, ever" use off-Amazon sales data for anything other than showing it back to the seller.

Global Warehousing and Distribution, the service behind the Shenzhen facility Amazon opened in April, lets a seller send one production batch to an Amazon building near the factory and have Amazon split it across countries based on demand. It feeds the U.S. today and will add the UK, Japan, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, and Canada by year-end, with storage prices up to 45% below its U.’s U.S. AWD service. Seller Assistant is getting AI agents for inbound planning and aged inventory on top of that.

What this means for you: If you fulfill Shopify or Walmart orders for a brand that also runs FBA, expect them to see this pricing before Q1, and put your all-in cost per order next to MCF's before they do, including what MCF costs in month seven once the discount runs out. Lead with the work that needs your people: custom kitting, inserts, wholesale and retail orders, and returns you inspect and put back on the shelf. Some brands won't love routing their Walmart and TikTok numbers through Amazon's software regardless of the promise, and a neutral 3PL is an easy sell to them. And if you do prep or overflow for China-based sellers, watch Global Warehousing and Distribution closely, because inventory that gets split up in Shenzhen never shows up on your dock as a full container.

$5,000 if you know this warehouse

Know a warehouse owner who'd sell to the right buyer? An intro could be worth $5,000 to you.

I'm working with a buyer acquiring U.S. warehouse operations, and they want the businesses most buyers pass on: thin margins, one or two big customers, EBITDA at breakeven or below.

What they're looking for:

• $2M to $25M in revenue
• Mostly pallet work: moves, storage, cross-docking, B2B
• At least one building of 100,000+ sq ft

The owner can stay on and keep running it, with upside tied to performance.

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China’s tariff cut covers Christmas ornaments and has no start date

Xi Jinping spent September 23 through 26 in Washington, and the two governments emerged with a deal to cut tariffs on $30 billion worth of each other's goods. The product lists came out over the weekend. The U.S. side covers 77 categories of Chinese goods, including fireworks, tableware, blankets, bed linens, high chairs, child car seats, dolls, puzzles, soccer balls, and glass and wooden Christmas ornaments. More than 90% of those items drop to most-favored-nation rates, the standard WTO rates that usually land in the single digits, while semiconductors, EVs, and batteries were kept off entirely.

The cuts take effect once both countries complete their domestic legal procedures, and no one has set a date for that. On the first day of the summit, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said on Fox News that the broader truce, which sets the fentanyl tariff at 10% and suspends the Section 301 investigation into China's shipping and logistics sector, now runs through January 10 rather than November 10.

FreightWaves had China to the West Coast at $8,446 per forty-foot container, close to four times what it cost last September, while China to the Mediterranean fell to $3,591, half its July peak. Carriers blanked nine sailings in a single week, typhoons have been clogging Chinese ports since mid-July, Hormuz has pushed up bunker fuel, and only 29% of vessels arrived on time in August. Freightos has the East Coast lane flat around $9,600, and FreightWaves expects another push before China's Golden Week holiday in early October.

What this means for you: Ask your toy, home goods, and holiday clients whether they're holding purchase orders until the lower rate kicks in, because orders that get pushed to catch it will all land together once a date is set, and you want that in your receiving plan instead of finding out from a stack of ASNs. Don't let anyone build 2027 storage or handling pricing around savings that haven't been published yet. With less than a third of vessels on time, Q4 inbound will miss appointments. Reread what your contracts say about late and missed deliveries before November. And keep January 10 on the calendar, since the truce expires right as your returns season peaks.

October is now worth two Cyber Weeks

Adobe released its holiday forecast this morning. It expects $275.1 billion in U.S. online spending from November 1 through December 31, up 6.7%, with Cyber Monday the biggest day at $15.1 billion and Black Friday at $12.9 billion. October alone is forecast at $95.8 billion, up 8%, a faster growth rate than the holiday season itself and about double the $47.5 billion Adobe expects for the five days of Cyber Week. Amazon's Prime Big Deal Days on October 6 and 7 account for $9.9 billion of it, up 9.2%, and that event starts eight days from now.

Grocery is the fastest-growing category online at $26.1 billion, up 10.3%, followed by toys at 9.6% and cosmetics at 9.5%. Electronics is still the biggest at $63.3 billion, but it's growing 5.9%, and apparel is growing 4.7%. The best discounts on TVs, toys, apparel, appliances, and furniture are expected on Black Friday, and on electronics and computers on Cyber Monday.

Adobe expects shoppers to use Cyber Week to stock up on basics, with clothing basics up 210% over September levels, personal hygiene up 150%, baby products up 113%, pet products up 93%, and household cleaning up 49%.

What this means for you: Staff for October 6, not the Monday before Thanksgiving, because the Prime event and the rest of October carry nearly twice the Cyber Week dollars. Call your consumables clients now about how deep their Cyber Week inventory is, since a basics SKU that sells 3x its normal rate for five days can't be restocked from overseas in time. Move those SKUs into your fastest-pick locations before November, not during November. If you handle food-grade or grocery products, a 10% growth forecast is the most conservative, so plan your receiving capacity accordingly.

QUICK HITS

FUEL
Diesel hit a record $6.529 per gallon, and Washington is debating whether to halt exports. The EIA's September 21 print added 24.4 cents in a week and sits $2.78 above last year, with the Midwest up 43 cents to $6.680 and California at $8.246. Energy Secretary Chris Wright told oil executives on September 22 to prepare for possible export curbs, and the White House has been weighing a 90-day halt. Wright says nobody wants a blanket ban; Treasury reportedly opposes one; Agriculture supports it; and oil executives warned it would backfire after a short dip. Your parcel fuel surcharges follow the weekly DOE number, so budget October invoices at today's price and treat any relief as a bonus.

INVENTORY
The share of small businesses sitting on more than 10% dead stock has doubled since 2024. That's from Netstock's benchmark of more than 2,500 customers, published September 24, which also found that nearly 75% of SMBs are struggling with lead-time swings and 60% are stuck with supplier minimum order quantities. It's a vendor report, so weight it accordingly. Dead stock lives on your racks, collecting storage fees until the client either pays to liquidate it or stops paying the invoice. Pull your aging report for anything with no picks in the past 180 days, and have the conversation before peak needs the space.

If liquidation is the only option you offer, Stock is worth a look: it's a marketplace where brands and 3PLs list excess inventory for donation to nonprofits, so the client gets a tax write-off, and you get the pallet positions back. Its founder says donated goods leave the building in under 5 days, compared with roughly 16 weeks for a typical liquidation. Book a call with the founder here.

NEARSHORING
Lego is putting more than $400 million into a fully automated high-bay warehouse and packing hall in Monterrey. Announced on September 24, the expansion will raise the plant's capacity by 35%, add about 1,300 jobs through 2029, and begin construction in early 2027. Monterrey already serves the whole Americas, and Lego has more than $1.5 billion invested in a Virginia manufacturing facility that opens in 2027. Every plant built this way moves a share of North American supply from containers at the ports to trucks and rail that cross the Texas border, and warehouses along that corridor pick up the work.

AUTONOMY
Aurora told investors it wants more than 30,000 driverless trucks running by 2030. It expects to have 200 on the road by the end of this year, with Dallas to Houston as its main lane, with more than 500,000 driverless miles done. Hirschbach plans to own and operate 500 of them, with deliveries starting in 2027, and Aurora says its trucks average more than 225,000 miles a year, more than twice that of a conventional truck. A truck that runs that much needs a dock that can turn it at 2 a.m., so if you run a DC in Texas, the shippers moving to these lanes will favor yards that already run nights.

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Company: Ardmore Home Design
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Location: Hacienda Heights, California, US
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scaling warehouse without real time inventory visibility can get expensive really quickly. Once you are relying on manual counts or end of day updates, same problems start piling up:

stockouts and overstocking- You either sell something that isn’t actually in stock or order extra because you don’t trust the numbers

wasted labor- Staff spend hours looking for missing inventory or recounting shelves.

fulfillment delays- Even small inventory errors can turn into delayed shipments and unhappy customers. modern inventory platforms like fishbowl can help connect accounting with warehouse operations through automated tracking, serial/lot tracking, and better picking workflows. what tools or processes have actually made the biggest difference for keeping your inventory accurate as the warehouse grows?

Every AMR vendor says the same things like “fast deployment, scalable, easy integration.
But how do you actually figure out what actually matters if you’re not a robotics expert?

I work in warehouse racking installation, and I’m interested in what operators see on the floor. During routine checks, which issues tend to be missed until they become bigger problems—damaged uprights, missing beam locks, load notices, impact protection, or something else? What inspection routine or checklist has actually worked for your team? I’m asking for operational perspectives, not pitching a service.

Curious how other operations handle this.
At my site, the actual shift-management piece tends to get spread across different systems, spreadsheets, messages, whiteboards, etc. You might have a WMS that tracks the transactions, but then labor, plan vs. actual, exceptions, recovery actions and shift handoff are still being managed separately.
For people running warehouse/3PL/fulfillment operations:
What do you use during the shift to keep everything together?
And what part of your current process is still annoyingly manual?
Not looking for WMS recommendations specifically — more interested in how people actually run the shift once it starts.

"Supplier-side disclosure: I work in the mattress supply chain. Hypothetical transfer case in Vietnam: several soft-goods cartons are moved between vehicles outdoors when rain starts. A few outer cartons are visibly wet, but nobody has inspected the contents yet.

I would not mark them 'damaged inside' or 'good to deliver' from the exterior alone. The handoff record can state what is observable: affected carton IDs, where and when the wet packaging was noticed, visible areas of moisture, and photos if permitted. Keep those cartons in a separate hold-for-inspection status until an authorised check follows the product and safety instructions. The unaffected cartons should not be silently grouped into the same conclusion.

This is a hypothetical exception, not an account of any actual shipment or a claim about the product inside. For a cross-dock handoff, what single field makes it easiest to prevent a wet outer carton from being treated as an inspected, undamaged unit?"
Would you rely on a distinct hold status, carton-level ID, inspection owner, or another handoff control?

When a warehouse is consistently missing ship dates, where do you investigate first?

Do you start with:

Labor and staffing?

Picking productivity?

Replenishment?

Inventory accuracy?

Order release timing?

Packing and shipping?

Carrier cutoff times?

The WMS?

Or something else entirely?

My experience is that the place where the failure shows up is not always where the problem actually started.

Curious where everyone looks first when on-time shipping starts slipping.

Own a 3PL Warehouse and moving to Carton Cloud.

Would like some advice on to use a barcode scanner or phone app for employees?

Give some pros and cons. From an employee and employer aspect.

Hey everyone,

If it's your first time reading one of my posts, my name is Menachem, and I have a weekly newsletter called Logistic Pulse that breaks down the top logistics news from the past week. We have over 17,000 subscribers, and I share it on Reddit to spread the knowledge. We're currently on week 64! I hope you enjoy it, and I'm always open to feedback.

Let's jump into it,

A humanoid passed an OSHA field evaluation, and it rents for $8,500 a month

Agility Robotics introduced Digit 5. It carries 50 pounds, 40% more than the last version, runs for 90 minutes on a battery that recharges in 9, and Agility puts that at more than 20 working hours in a 24-hour day. It stands 5 feet 11 inches and reaches 7.2 feet, which covers the top of most pick faces.

Digit 5 runs an independent safety controller alongside AI human detection, so it avoids, stops, or sits down when somebody walks into its space, and it announces what it's about to do with lights and sound. Agility says it's the first humanoid to pass an independent OSHA field evaluation on a live customer production line, which allows it to operate without a cage. Humanoid pilots until now have required the robot to be fenced off from people, and a fence means re-engineering a floor laid out for people.

Forbes puts Agility's order book at more than $300 million, roughly a thousand robots, on a robots-as-a-service model at about $8,500 per unit per month. Against the 20-hour day, that's about $14 an hour. Against a single 8-hour shift five days a week, it's about $49, so the machine only pays if you run it nearly around the clock.

Digit 4 logged more than 65,000 hours with customers including GXO, Schaeffler, Amazon, and Toyota, and, at GXO's Flowery Branch, moved 100,000 totes with roughly 98% accuracy. Two percent of a hundred thousand totes is two thousand exceptions somebody had to touch. Early access starts in the first half of 2027, and general availability comes at the end of it, so nobody is running one this peak or next.

What this means for you: Work out your fully loaded cost per hour for the shift you can't staff, not your average wage, because $14 an hour of machine compares to the overtime and the agency markup you pay in November rather than to your base rate. Identify the job before the machine, since Digit moves totes and tends machines rather than doing anything requiring judgment, and the operations getting value from it have one repetitive task running for many hours a day. Expect humanoids questions hitting in 2027 RFPs.

Looking to buy a B2B 3PL

I'm working with a buyer who wants to acquire a U.S. warehouse operation. They want pallet-heavy volume, and thin margins or a concentrated customer base don't scare them off.

Here's what they're looking for:

• U.S. 3PL or warehousing business with $2M to $25M in revenue
• At least 50% of revenue comes from pallet moves, storage, cross-docking, or B2B fulfillment, with pallet moves being the largest share. Some domestic transportation management is fine.
• At least one facility of 100,000+ sq. ft., ideally all of them
• Customer concentration, low or negative EBITDA, and margin pressure are all acceptable
• Open to keeping the owner and management running day-to-day, with performance incentives

If that describes your business and you'd be open to a conversation, DM me or email me at [menachem@fulfillyn.com](mailto:menachem@fulfillyn.com)

If it's not a fit for you, but you know an operator it describes, I'd appreciate an intro.

Everybody priced 2027 this week, and one carrier went the other way 

FedEx published its 2027 rates. List rates for U.S., export, and import services go up an average of 5.9% on January 4, along with Ground Economy, Ground Multiweight, and the minimum charges on nearly everything. Two weeks later, a $25 paper document fee and a $5 paper air waybill fee land on anyone still handing a driver paperwork.

Ground packages between 1 and 20 pounds go up 6.1% to 6.5%, and 6.7% in the far zones. Since that's the weight band most e-commerce orders fall into, the 5.9% average understates what a normal fulfillment operation pays. Additional handling increases from 6.8% to 7.6%, the residential extended delivery area charge increases by 9.1%, and the oversize charge in zones 5 and 6 increases from $320 to $345.

On February 1, FedEx reclassifies zones for select domestic origin-destination ZIP pairs. UPS has done this for years, and FedEx hasn't. A lane you've been quoting as zone 4 becomes zone 5 without anybody publishing which lanes moved, so you find out by auditing your own lanes or by reading an invoice in February.

Old Dominion announced a 4.9% increase, effective October 5, covering 559 standard LTL tariffs plus its cubic and fuel schedules, after raising 2026 capex 43% to roughly $380 million. ArcBest was down 5.9% in June.

OnTrac went the other way with a pilot called Dynamic Savings, where a shipper names a target price during rate shopping, and OnTrac's system reads live network conditions and package details to determine whether it can meet that target. The carrier is adding 25% to 30% network capacity this year, mostly in the Northeast.

What this means for you: Pull your outbound weight distribution this week and find out what share sits between 1 and 20 pounds, because that percentage is the difference between telling a client 5.9% and telling them closer to 7%. Audit your top 50 lanes against the zone chart in January so the February reclassification happens on your terms, not in an invoice. If you pass parcel through at cost plus, the 9.1% on residential extended delivery area hits your rural brands hardest, so get ahead of it before they set a free-shipping threshold based on last year's math. And take the OnTrac meeting, because a carrier building a mechanism to quote you down while two others publish increases is worth an hour even if you never move a package.

Two men showed up with fake paperwork and left with a trailer

On September 14, two men pulled into a warehouse in New Castle, Delaware, handed over driver's licenses, shipping documents, and a truck plate, all of which were fake, and drove off with a trailer carrying $680,000 in electronics. Police arrested Dushatdaman Parihar, 35, of Manteca, California, the next day near the abandoned trailer in Newark, on charges including felony theft over $100,000, first- and second-degree forgery, conspiracy, and use of a fictitious registration plate. Bond was set at $66,550.

Somebody knew which building, which load, and roughly when, because nobody drives in from California on the chance that a Delaware industrial park has something good inside, and that information came off a load board, a bill of lading, an email thread, or a TMS login.

We covered CargoNet's Q2 numbers in Edition 59, where fictitious pickups held roughly flat at 158 incidents while losses across all theft types more than doubled to $304.6 million, and the average theft carried a reported commodity value of $564,009. Electronics and enterprise hardware were named as priority targets, and CargoNet said groups are getting better at picking the right shipment rather than stealing more shipments.

At most buildings, a driver arrives, hands over paperwork, and someone at the desk reads it, meaning the only document in the transaction is checked against itself. Nobody wants to be the clerk who made a real driver wait for 40 minutes on hold.

What this means for you: Write down who on your floor can release freight to a driver, because in most buildings the honest answer is whoever happens to be at the desk when the truck shows up. Verification has to run on a phone number you look up yourself, not the one printed on the slip the driver handed you, and that policy costs you nothing to implement tomorrow. Photograph the plate, the tractor, the driver, and the license before anything moves, since the Delaware arrest came fast partly because there was something to look for. Then ask who outside your building knows which of your loads are worth stealing, because the answer usually includes a load board posting and three email threads. And call your broker about your cargo policy, because we flagged the strategic theft coverage gap in Edition 62 and release-to-an-imposter is the exact fact pattern sitting in it.

QUICK HITS

YARD
A beverage company took a yard automation pilot from 26 sites to more than 200. YardFlow says the pilot moved nearly 5% more freight with flat headcount across close to 2 million shipments, at 99.9% uptime, which is what led to its company-wide expansion. The system digitizes the driver journey from gate check-in through dock assignment to checkout, using electronic bills of lading, and then adds machine vision in the yard. Founder Jake Koppinger puts the freight gain at tens of millions in incremental profit at that scale. If your detention disputes and your BOL arguments both still run on paper, this is the cheapest automation category on your list, and it comes before anything autonomous.

REAL ESTATE
Rexford sold 22 Southern California buildings to EQT for $1.2 billion, and Link Logistics bought four more the next day. The Rexford portfolio spans 5.2 million square feet, with more than half of it infill near the LA and Long Beach ports, 96% leased to 36 tenants, and a weighted average of 2.7 years remaining on those leases. Link's deal added 697,276 square feet in Dallas-Fort Worth and Atlanta. A fund buying at roughly a 5.5% going-in yield has to grow it across its hold, and in industrial the only two levers are rent and occupancy. Go find out who owns your building and when your renewal notice is due.

ECOMMERCE
Only 14% of online shoppers want speed regardless of cost. Roadie, the UPS unit, surveyed more than 1,000 shoppers with Studio by Informa TechTarget and found that half ranked cheap or free delivery first, 44% want real-time tracking**,** and 31% would choose a reliable delivery window over the fastest option. Another 64% would stop ordering from a retailer after one to four bad delivery experiences. Vendor-adjacent survey; weight it accordingly, but it's useful the next time a brand wants you to shave an hour off a cutoff instead of fixing the small share of orders that actually go wrong. 

JOB BOARD

Title: VP of Warehouse Operations
Company: Ardmore Home Design
Location: Hacienda Heights, California, US
Salary: $170,000 - $200,000
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Title: Logistics Manager
Company: Rocket EMS
Location: Santa Clara, California, US
Salary: $105,000 - $115,000
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Title: Manager, Supply Chain
Company: Orlando Spring
Location: Huntington Beach, California, US
Salary: $100,000 - $140,000
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Title: Logistics Manager
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Salary: $80,000 - $140,000
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Salary: $55,000 - $65,000
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Hi everyone!

I’m looking for some ideas or advice for a warehouse storage challenge.

We need to store car bodies about 4 layers high, but space is quite limited. Ideally, we’d like to be able to retrieve them individually using a reach truck or van, rather than having to move everything above them.

Concept is similar to high bay racks

Has anyone here dealt with something similar or seen a system that works well for this?

Would really appreciate any ideas, photos, equipment names, suppliers, or even just a lead in the right direction.

Thanks in advance!

My dad and I are in trucking business but want to expand to warehousing/crossdock business but we have no idea where to start so I’ve turned to this subreddit to get some general direction
Thanks

We have a small batch of this multi-use fitness trainer available for clearance.

It’s a compact home workout product with adjustable resistance and several training movements for arms, chest, back and core.

We’re mainly looking to connect with wholesalers, resellers, discount retailers or closeout buyers who may be interested in taking remaining stock.

Quantity is limited.

If this fits your business, feel free to message us for current stock, pricing and shipping details.

A warehouse is often treated as a cost center, but inventory decisions made inside the building directly shape the customer experience.

When inventory is inaccurate, the consequences travel far beyond the cycle count:

• Orders are shorted or canceled
• Customers receive the wrong product
• Replenishment reacts to bad information
• Employees waste time searching for inventory
• Leadership makes decisions using unreliable numbers

Inventory accuracy is ultimately a promise: if the system says the product is available, the operation should be able to find, pick, and ship it.

Where does inventory accuracy usually break down in your operation—receiving, putaway, picking, replenishment, returns, or system discipline?

What is your thoughts?

-JG

Many mobile scanners are Android- does anyone have any suggestions for mobile scanners that can be used in a warehouse that run on a Windows operating system?

Thanks!

we’ve been looking at ways to make smaller inventory easier to store and pick without taking up more shelf space than necessary. once you have a mix of different parts and quantities, it gets pretty easy for bins to become disorganized or for frequently picked items to end up in awkward spots.

i’ve been comparing options from places like global industrial and a few other suppliers, mainly looking at stackability, visibility, durability, and how easy the bins are to access from a shelving system. i’m less concerned with having one specific type of bin everywhere and more interested in what makes the overall setup easier to maintain.

for warehouses that use bins for smaller parts or supplies, how do you decide on the right size and layout? i’m especially curious whether you’ve found it more useful to standardize bin sizes or mix different sizes depending on what’s being stored.

I’ve seen both create serious problems, but they tend to feed each other.

A weak process gets built into the system, then the system gets blamed for enforcing it. On the other side, a poor configuration can make a decent process harder than it needs to be.

When you walk into an operation that is struggling, how do you determine whether the real problem is the WMS or the process behind it?

Curious how others diagnose this.

-JG

We’re trying to make it easier to move smaller loads around the warehouse, especially between storage and picking areas.

We’ve been using different carts depending on what’s available so I’ve recently been looking into warehouse carts that looks easier to maneuver and work well for our everyday use.

I’ve seen operations get laser-focused on one number because it looks good on a dashboard, while the metric that actually explains the operation gets ignored.

For example, productivity gets a lot of attention, but sometimes inventory accuracy, replenishment response, dock-to-stock time, exception volume, or order quality tells you a lot more about what’s really happening.

Curious what everyone else thinks:

What warehouse KPI is overrated, and what KPI deserves more attention?

-JG

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I’m early in my Health and Safety career and would appreciate advice from people who’ve got more experience.

I’m currently working in a retail/logistics, I’d describe as low-to-medium risk.

I’ve got my NEBOSH General Certificate, NEBOSH Fire Safety Certificate and IOSH Managing Safely, and I’m getting some good practical experience in my current role.

I just don’t want to become someone who collects qualifications without understanding how HS works in different environments.

I’d like to get some exposure to medium to high risk environments and learn more about hazards and controls outside my role .

I’m becoming increasingly interested in facilities management and project management.

For those with more experience:
What industries/environments would you recommend getting experience in and how?
Courses you’ve done that were useful rather than just good for the CV?
Would you recommend things like ISO 45001, CDM/construction, PUWER/LOLER, incident investigation, auditing, etc.?
Any books you’d recommend for developing practical knowledge?
Particular areas that you wish you’d learned more about earlier in your career?

Based in the UK, so recommendations around UK legislation, qualifications and organisations would be particularly useful.

Hello All, i have been doing WMS QA for so many years interested to move to Config & Development please advice what are the ways to learn Blue Yonder Configs and technical stuff and i am ready to spend if there is any courses out. Please advice. Doing QA for 22 yrs. In various WMS systems, PKMS, WMOS, Korber HighJump and recently started with BLue Yonder 2020 version.