Be it Sydney, Shanghai, or San Francisco…. wherever you are on the planet, not a day passes without some media buzz around automation, from AI to robotics. Increasingly, businesses of all sizes are looking at how they can take advantage of automation within their own operations, in an effort to drive revenue and reduce cost.
I hear a lot of talk these days around robotics and automation in the warehouse - especially in picking and fulfilment tasks.
And so, with all the gifts unwrapped and the holidays behind us, the world has emerged blinking into the bright light of January.
With some 13 days ‘til Christmas, as I sit here thinking of automated order processing, my mind turns to Santa, reindeer and Santa’s helpers…
In our last blog post, I focussed on the first process in the order to cash cycle: Order Entry.
What do we want? A faster order to cash cycle!When do we want it? Now! Yesterday!
Picture this ……
If you’re reading this, chances are you’ve got customer orders being placed outside of your website. Purchase orders are being sent to you straight from your customer’s ERP, and you employ people to deal with them.
Having grown up in a family involved in manufacturing, school holidays were invariably spent working around the foundry, machine shop, polishing shop and pick & pack - where you quickly got to understand process and work centre constraints.
