Ten Important Questions for a 3PL Company’s Warehouse Manager

1.Question- What is warehouse ?

· Answer- A place where to store the goods.

2.Question- What should be the right approach for a warehouse manager?

·Answer-To take care of his customer like a nurse do for her patient and value the customer inventory like a banker value his customer money.

3.Question- What is necessary for warehousing?

·  Answer- Proper Storage of goods, Correct Inbound and Correct Outbound.

4.Question – What is necessary for warehouse manager?

·Answer- Goods need to be secured in safe conditions; Goods need be counted and well maintained.

5.Question- What is Inventory?

·Answer- The condition in which the customer’s goods are stored in the still quiet condition.

6.Question- What is inventory checking?

· Answer- To prove the customer’s goods quantity is as same as the controlled figure.

7.Question-If Inventory is not accurate, what will be?

· Answer- You cannot ship the goods properly, cannot tell the customer how much he is having, and critical damage of your company brand.

8.Question- How to control inventory?

· Answer-

· Every day checking in perfect quiet circumstances,

· Every day reconciling the discrepancy and making correction if needed,

· Maintain perfect match up of all data verses actual.

9.Question- What is WMS?

·Answer-Warehouse management system is the management of inventory, inbound, outbound.

10.  Question- What is purpose to use WMS?

· Answer-

· WMS need to be updated at the same timing as goods movement.

· WMS calculates inventory by entering inbound & outbound.

·Single entry of inbound and outbound is the key to achieve perfect inventory management.

·  Warehouse manager can check how much inbound and how much outbound has been done at the moment.

·  Warehouse manager could know what happened previously by referring WMS.

Rakesh K. Singh

Logistics Professional