Warehouses: investment worthy or waste?
For lean practitioners inventory and warehouses are considered waste. In the past there was a tendency to ignore warehouse operations completely when transforming a company
However, there are two reasons why we think it makes sense to spend time in warehouses:
- Firstly, there are supply chain designs, where warehouses are without a practical alternative, until manufacturing makes another big step forward
- Secondly, there will always will be products which require storage, for instance as part of a maturing process.
Published: 14 February 2014 4:44pm
by Victoria Fitzgerald
