One of the trickiest elements of successful warehousing is the balancing act between warehousing and distribution. Understanding how this balance can best be achieved for your business is crucial to getting the best from your warehouse space. It’s difficult to get accurate figures for different budget areas post-pandemic as the market is changing so rapidly … Read more…

Knowing the most likely issues to affect your pallet storage can help a warehouse operator in three ways:   Proactively preventing problems happening Retrofitting to ensure pallet storage problems don’t keep happening Streamline work flows and improve productivity.   This means that warehousing space can be better managed to prevent accidents and to improve profit, … Read more…

After decades of working with just-in-time strategies, one report says that 84% of UK businesses are considering a move to just-in-case supply chain models. That’s sounds remarkably high, especially given that many SMEs never get the headspace to think about their models at all, but it’s definitely the case that warehousing is seeing a substantial … Read more…

As businesses evolve, their storage needs change. In the past two years this has meant many organisations finding themselves with large volumes of freight that need to be stored in an outsourced facility. Current reasons for exploring pallet storage include: Brexit issues meaning companies need to bring in larger amounts of goods and store them, … Read more…

We’ve been saying ‘global supply chain’ for decades, but since 2020 we’ve really understood the concept. There have been previous bumps in the road, including petrol prices which regularly have an impact on international supply chains, but the recent perfect storm of challenges has led to outcomes that nobody predicted. These challenges, including shortages on … Read more…

Elastic logistics allow companies to operate supply chains more efficiently in the face of fluctuations, upscaling and downscaling or seasonal activity. Until quite recently, lean or just-in-time business models have predominated in the warehousing and logistics sectors but while both models function well for one end of the chain (manufacturing or value added processes) and … Read more…

Since the beginning of civilization, mankind has needed to transport items from one location to another. As we evolved, we became better at getting things to where they needed to go. Improved equipment and resources meant that we could get more items to more locations with less effort. Advancements in technology allowed us to hastily … Read more…

We can all breathe a sigh of relief as Brexit has been delayed once more, giving us more time to figure out exactly how to handle each potential outcome. A deal, no deal, a bad deal, all of these require us to make some serious preparations; both fo our businesses and our customers. The main … Read more…

  As many businesses grow, they can start to experience difficulties. Stock control management can be one business area that reveals weaknesses in business structure and growth. The way this often emerges is in one or more of these four areas:   Increased costs – every business will experience fluctuations in margin and this is … Read more…

How to improve your warehousing and distribution without breaking your budget   For many warehouse managers, this sounds too good to be true, but at http://www.dmg-freight.com/we know that there are simple, effective techniques that can really benefit warehouse management to improve your warehousing and distribution … and they don’t have to cost a fortune.   … Read more…