Challenges and Strategies in Warehouse Management

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Warehouse Management
Abstract
Underperformance being experienced in warehouse management is known to have the
capability of negatively impacting on the entire sector of the supply chain. This has further led to
various organizations not attaining most of the desired goals in real time since the needs of all
the customers are not met in an adequate time (Mangan and John 56). There is, therefore, the
need to come up with sufficient strategies that are associated with Warehouse management to
scale up various issues that are attached to global supply (Chen and Haozhe 129). It will
therefore implement the use of interviews in the methodology (Barney and Jay 78).
Challenges associated with warehouse management
There are quite some challenges that are attached to warehouse management. As many
businesses tend to grow, the owners usually face the challenge of adequately managing this kind
of growth together with the entire implications associated with most of the business operations
(Priem, Richard and Morgan 280). Stock control management is one of the major areas of a
particular business that has the capability of encountering quite some growing pains that appears
to be showing itself issues associated with increased costs, slow productivity and even the
wastage of the entire stock (Hitt and Michael 140). As most of the growing companies often
make some form of discoveries, a good number of their methods of operations together with
various types of technology implemented at the start can at some point emerge as a future barrier

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(Lusch and Robert 78). These challenges tend to bring on board quite some risks that end up
affecting the operations of quite some organisations (Johnson, Peterson, and Zhaohui Wu 319).
On the other hand, one negative thing about these challenges facing warehouse
management is that most of them tend to tarnish the reputation of a given organisation thus
making it very hard to attract the attention of various customers who are known to be situated in
multiple locations (Tiwaria and Sunil. 365). Communication is one of the significant challenges
that are significantly affecting warehouse management. It has proved to be a massive challenge
within the entire logistical chain (Krause and Daniel 110). Effective communication has the
capability to maximize the rate of productivity within any organization. Once there is no
adequate communication across various employees together with the top management officials
of a given organisation, this is likely to pose the most significant challenge when it comes to the
management of multiple operations that are associated with warehouse management (Christopher
and Martin 198).
Moreover, another problem associated with warehouse management is the inaccurate
purchase of different types of orders. This happens typically when all the invoices are not able to
match what has been received on all the rules that have been purchased within a given time
frame (Sodhi and ManMohan. 380). Any business that is growing can encounter quite some
issues that generally appear to be unseen as a result of all the purchase orders being larger or
even more complicated. The only thing that can help to mitigate this form of challenge is to
appropriately implement adequate and reliable strategies of record keeping within the warehouse.
Handling of quite some damages within the boundaries of the warehouse has emerged to be a
severe problem as far as global supply chain management is concerned (Wang and Gang. 678).

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In person interview of three different experts
1st person: Thomas Jefferson
Title: Warehouse manager
Name of the company: IBM Company
Expert background
The expert has a vast experience in various issues and operations taking place within the
warehouse. Moreover, having worked in quite some organisations, he is aware of quite some
issues taking place with the boundaries of the warehouse and can quickly inform the top
management officials whenever there is a problem being encountered.
Interviewer: Do you think that warehouse management is necessary within this organisation and
why do you think so?
Expert: Warehouse management is a vital issue that aims towards scaling up most of the
operations within the, and due to this, the entire organisation cannot adequately operate without
an appropriate implementation of warehouse management strategies.
Interviewer: Are there any challenges that this organisation is facing as far as warehouse
management issues are concerned?

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Expert: Yes, the warehouse has been able to face quite some challenges that go further to effect
even the top management team in terms of how they handle various issues within the
organisation.
Interviewer: Where do you see this warehouse in the coming years?
Expert: I believe that the entire warehouse is set to move to greater heights in the coming years
as a result of the new technologies that are currently being implemented.
Interview 2
1st person: Albert James
Title: Employee
Name of the company: Nike Company
Expert background
Albert is an employee of the organisation where he has been able to work with several
other employees to bring out the best outcome as far as the goals of the organisation are
concerned. Moreover, he has been trained on how to handle various modes of operations that
aims towards bringing one of the best outcomes so far.
Interviewer: As an employee of the organisation, do you support issues associated with
warehouse management?
Expert: Yes, I fully support issues related to warehouse management since they are among the
best alternatives that aim towards taking the entire company on the right track for it to be able to
compete even with various companies within the business platform.