I bought a new smartphone last week. I am not such a “tech geek” that I always want to have the latest version, but still, I buy a new phone about every 3 years. So I was a bit surprised that, of the brand I bought, already five new models had [...]
Last week I launched my website, www.lemantis.ch, in case you haven't discovered it yet. It's great that I can put it in the spotlight by means of this post, but that is not the intention of my message today. What I want to discuss is how it struck me that [...]
Two weeks ago, I wrote an article about how inventory management can take your customer service to the next level. Make sure your customer knows what to expect, keep your promises and if things do go wrong, communicate a solution to your customer as soon as possible. Of course, we [...]
I hope differently of course, but perhaps also your company has been hit hard by the Covid-19 crisis. You were forced to take all kinds of measures to ensure the future of your company. Sales has gone down drastically, while a lot of costs are recurring every month. Even if no more [...]
How often do you have a go at the little enviable task of cleaning up the freezer? My wife and myself decided to go for it last week. Why last week? Simply because… we were confronted with a lack of space to store new stuff. When cleaning up, we came across products [...]
Two weeks ago I wrote a LinkedIn article about clearing obsolete and slow moving stock before deciding on the need for a bigger warehouse. But inventory that does move, is also worth a closer look. When comparing to my freezer at home, this concerns the “ice cream” in your warehouse. [...]
A few weeks ago, in another LinkedIn article, I compared stock management in your warehouse to your freezer at home. You decide which products to store and how much. Maybe you can buy smaller quantities of some products so that you have more space for others. But how do you [...]
Two weeks ago I wrote the article "ERP software: a blessing or a curse?" about a number of prerequisites for the implementation of ERP software. In short, it is important that the software has the functionality your company needs, that your business processes are correctly “translated” into the software and [...]
People close to me, know that I have been playing table tennis, also known as ping pong, for over 30 years. For the first time in all these years, there were no ping pong balls when I arrived at the club for training yesterday. For 30 years, I have taken for [...]
Excess stock, obsolete stock, dead stock,… many terms to determine inventory that you no longer need in your company. The dictionary of APICS, a leading supply chain management association, defines “obsolete inventory” as: “… inventory that will never be used or sold at full value. Disposing of the inventory may reduce [...]
