Lean in Government | Episode 8 | How Standards & Systems Sustained Warehouse Success (Part 2)

About this episode

In this episode, Alen Ganic discusses the importance of standards in sustaining warehouse success and the impact of naming conventions and inventory language.

For years, I watched organizations invest in software, systems, and tools, yet warehouses stayed disorganized and inefficient. The problem wasn’t technology. It was the lack of standards. In Episode 8 of Lean in Government, Part 2 of our warehouse transformation series, I share what happened after the initial improvements and what it took to sustain them. We talk about the power of naming conventions, why speaking the same “inventory language” matters, and how tools like Cityworks only star...

Topics covered

• warehouse management
• standards
• systems
• inventory management

Keywords

• warehouse transformation
• Cityworks
• efficiency

Mentioned in this episode

Products: Cityworks

Books & works: Lean in Government

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