How's the information technology(IT) being used in the warehouse?

Answer 1

better stocktaking and stock control in general; in addition, u could have communication ...etc

Answer 2

Your question reminds me of a joke. An Australian, an American and a Japanese business men are captured in a remote country and are going to be shot as spies. The general gives them one last request. The Australian asks for a quart of Australia's best beer. The Japanese business man asks to give a lecture on Japanese management, the American businessman asks to be shot first because he would rather die than hear another lecture about Japanese management. The Japanese were the first to recognize how information technology could work in the warehouse. First it made it easier to keep track of inventory. But far more importantly it saved the company a lot of money and created the ability to change production faster in relation to demand. Instead of having a large warehouse filled with all the parts needed for manufacturing a product, information technology made an indudustrial concept called "Just In Time" manufacturing possible. So instead of buying millions of dollars of an essential part, information technology made it possilbe to know exactly how many parts they needed by matching orders and comparing it to existing inventory. So instead of buy parts needed to make a product for a year in advance, they could buy parts needed just a month or even a week in advance. This lowered the warehouse space they needed considerable and drove down warehouse costs down considerably, creating savings that they could then pass along to their customers, making them more competitive and making it possible to increase their market share. In some cases some Japanese companies eliminated warehouses entirely by using IT technology and connecting it directly to their suppliers and warehouse IT technology told their suppliers knew exactly when they needed to deliver parts and the supplier absorbed the cost of warehousing in order to win contracts with large manufacturers. They literally delivered the parts needed to make a product the day it was being made. Information Technology in the warehouse also created profits for sellers, either manufacturers or distributors. Warehouse IT technology made it possible to have constant 24/7 by the hour inventory. So if a company was started selling more than usual of a certain version of their product line, they could respond more quickly to meet demand. Lastly, companies spend millions on marketing research. Warehouse Internet Technology gave marketing research a new tool they didn't have before. First, warehouse IT told salespersons when a certain model started to increase or decrease in sales and they could use it to tell the company what was selling and what was not. It also told marketers where they might have to build warehouses should a certain territory start to show an sudden increase in sales. Instead of having to ship a product a thousand miles, the company could build a small warehouse to supply retail stores close to the retail stores, so if a retail chain in a certain city suddenly experienced increase in demand, the company knew exactly where to build distribution warehouses so they only had to ship their product ten miles instead of a thousand. You can see in a country like Japan where there isn't much land that warehouse information technology would be very useful. The Japanese were the first to adopt it in a major way, long before their competitors in other countries and contributed to Japanese economic growth in a major way during the 1970s and early 80s. The irony is that the concept of using information technology in the warehouse was invented by an American who wrote a book about it. The Japanese held a yearly awards ceremony named after the American who literally wrote the book and the American author presented the prize to the Japanese company who made the most innovative use of information technology in inventory (warehouse) control every year!

Answer 3

Barcodes!

As companies show every day, you can track each part, from raw materials to finished product, and track it to the customer (and sometimes to scrap). ISO and QS quality standards depend on this ability.

Companies also automate order filling, shipping, etc via computers.