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The recent winding up of the Australian financial year has bore invaluable insights for business enterprises. Every board of governors in a company analyse their income and margins to ensure that they maximise on the next fiscal year. One thing was consistent with all their inferences: there is no better time to look into your business systems.

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Inevitably, growing businesses will need to expand their warehouse space. If you are considering expanding your facilities, you may be doing it prematurely because of common warehouse management oversights. You might be surprised at how much space you can free up without needing more square footage, especially if your business hasn't grown as much as your storage needs have.

Increasing sales is usually thought of as being the job of the marketing and sales departments. Marketing drums up new product ideas, studies the market, looks for new markets, sets up lead generation campaigns, and sends the leads to the sales department, which then converts the leads into customers. From this incomplete description of these two departments, it's clear how they increase sales.

Backorders can damage your business and reputation. Explore these effective strategies to minimise backorders in your inventory management process. By understanding the root causes and implementing best practices, you can enhance customer satisfaction, improve operational efficiency, and boost your bottom line.

Without feedback, improvement isn't possible. Improvement requires comparing your current performance against previous performances. This in turn requires that you define what you mean by "performance." For warehouse management, making your customers happy by consistently fulfilling their orders on time with the right products, in the right quantities, and undamaged is a good way of measuring your performance.

Can a business operate profitably without inventory management? This depends on a number of factors. If the business has few competitors, it can run in a less than optimal fashion with too little or too much inventory, as long as it makes a profit. Some small start-ups with few customers can also do without formal inventory oversight for a while at least.

In an age of high customer expectations, warehouse management inefficiency will cost your business. An inefficient warehouse slows down your customer fulfilment, which in turn affects customer loyalty. It increases your operational costs, which if passed on to your prices, will reduce your competitiveness.

Obsolete inventory uses up valuable warehouse space, and is tied up money that you can't fully recover. It's obsolete because it has either deteriorated, become technologically obsolete, is at the end of its product life cycle, or is no longer required for your operations. While there are ways of getting rid of obsolete stock without it becoming a total loss, it's best to not have the problem in the first place. Understanding why obsolete inventory occurs is the first step in preventing it.

Lead time is the amount of time it takes to complete a process that impacts inventory management and customer satisfaction. Lead times impact inventory management, customer satisfaction, and profitability.