Most distributors did not need to be told the May 2017 rate of unemployment was the lowest in 16 years; 4.3%.
Turnover in warehouses and difficulty in finding replacement warehouse workers have resulted in levels of warehouse mistakes that conveyed that message months ago — even where barcodes are scanned at most steps in an effort to avoid the mistakes. But even when warehouses were fully staffed, barcode scanning rarely resulted in 99.9% warehouse accuracy, the level needed to compete with alternate channels of distribution. Here are a few recommendations that have helped barcode users increase warehouse accuracy to a very high level.