Why is Warehouse Auditing Important?
For any E-Commerce Brand, warehouse auditing plays a vital role in the process review procedure as it enables us to identify factors that could be causing slowdowns, cost escalation, and reduced overall process efficiency. Our team can efficiently conduct warehouse audits, streamlining inventories up to 20k-30k in a day, thereby reducing man-hours and achieving the highest possible efficiency.
What are the different factors to consider during a warehouse audit?
Inventory Accuracy: The most crucial aspect of auditing is to conduct checks on the inventory levels and ensure that the product inventories match the number of inventories that were sent. This is done to ensure that there are no discrepancies within the process.
Warehouse Layout: Easy navigation and movability for the staff will contribute to the productivity of the entire process. The auditor must ensure that the layout has been designed to facilitate a swift process and that there are no positionings causing slowdowns in the process.
Warehouse Procedure: The entire process must be documented and updated to the managers and required authorities on time to give them real-time updates on the package. Tracking the package is important and helps you smooth out the whole process while keeping you aware of the packages’ whereabouts.
Warehouse Staff: Proper training and skill enhancement of the management staff is extremely important as that helps you keep your procedure up to date with the latest skills and technologies. The auditor must make sure that the staff is skilled enough to handle and manage these machines.
Warehouse Security: The warehouse must be kept secure to avoid any inventory damage or theft by different methods like Guards, Alarm Dogs & Security Cameras. The auditor must ensure that the warehouse is completely secure and recommend if there are any improvements required.
How can we improve warehouse management?
Waste Reduction: The auditor must check and provide solutions to improve waste management at the warehouse to reduce litter and keep the environmentally healthy.
Environmental Compliance: A very important part of auditing is to ensure that the falling in line with the environmental regulations as it can lead to heavy fines and hamper the process by many days.
Compliance With Safety Regulations: The auditor must ensure that the warehouse and the staff are following all the necessary safety norms as the safety of the staff is of utmost importance and not following these can also lead to penalties
What are the key factors to keep in mind while Auditing the Warehouse?
Set Clear Objectives: It is important to define for yourself the purpose of the audit and what you aim to achieve from this audit. You could be auditing to check efficiency of the staff or to provide improvements in the process.
Gather Necessary Information: Once you have defined your goal for auditing the site, you must gather all the important & relevant information and evaluate the data in order to achieve the objective. This information could include, Staff Knowledge & Skills or Inventory Records & Hygiene Standards.
Conduct The Audit: Once you have narrowed down the necessary information you require from the procedure, you must conduct the audit and review all the necessary information and conduct interviews with the staff and manager to record their experiences or grievances.
Generate A Report: In accordance with your defined objective you must generate a report stating the information that you wanted to gain and have extracted and whether the following the procedure and guidelines that have been provided to them.
What must one do after conducting a warehouse audit?
As an auditor or manager, it is important for you to make sure that the warehouse is following the norms and guidelines that have been provided to them. Audits are also helpful in improving the efficiency of the procedure and reducing time and labour costs. One must conduct warehouse management at frequent intervals to ensure that the staff and the manager at the warehouse are following the rules and regulations that have been defined to them