Peter Thienpondt: “Jan had experience with this, plus he has a background in the agricultural machinery sector.
Before the move, Jan inventoried our entire stock in order to waste as little space as possible in the new system.
An aim that we successfully achieved. Later it turned out that by focusing on saving space, the layout of the warehouse was not entirely suitable for our way of working. After all, we don’t look for every piece that we need in the computer, but we also frequently pick parts visually. That’s the only thing we would have done differently, in retrospect: creating groups in our database so that we can sort more into groups in our warehouse as well. That may be less efficient in terms of use of space, but it is easier for our way of working. Conclusion: for the arrangement, we should have taken our working method more into account. I talked to Jan about this, so that he can potentially apply it in new projects. The inventorying and the move itself went very smoothly.”