About Larry Willett Expertise Specialist in 3rd Party Warehousing and eCommerce Fulfillment, Generalist in handling, storage and distribution of most products and commodities including Retail Goods, Food Products, and HazMat
Experience 25 years in retail distribution, both private and 3rd party. President of 3rd party logistics provider in Los Angeles for 10 years
Organizations Warehouse Education Research Council, Council of Logistics Management, International Warehouse Logistics Assn.
Question I am in a warehouse that has no more than fifty employees and my problem is that I have production line that we set pallets near the line so that they can pick from and so they pick products from boxes and basicly we have to brake down the boxes and don't have the money for big improvements and so it won't takes away from production. We have to stack the boxes and put them in a staged truck because they buy them. So I need away to get rid of the boxes without loosing time and were we can still brake down the boxes and get paid for the boxes.
Answer Reggie
This is not an uncommon problem. About all you can do is keep enough cheap labor on hand to keep the empty boxes moving away from production so that it does not slow down. I do not know of any cheap solutions to your problem. You just need to plan for the empty boxes and schedule enough people to keep them broken down and loaded on the truck.
