Warehouse practice
Articles on receiving, picking, dispatch, stock counts, traceability and AI in the warehouse — how the work is organised and how NG WMS and NG Copilot make it faster and more accurate.
- AI in the warehouse5 min read
AI in the warehouse: what NG Copilot and MCP change in daily work
Most time in a warehouse is not spent carrying goods but looking for information. How an AI assistant that knows your orders, locations and stock history shortens that path — while people keep the decisions.
- Labels and scanning6 min read
Barcodes, SSCC and LPN in the warehouse: what each one is and how it is used
An EAN identifies a product, an LPN a unit of stock inside the warehouse, and an SSCC a pallet or carton on its way to the customer. A plain-language guide to the differences, where each label goes and the mistakes that stop scanning from helping.
- Stock6 min read
FIFO vs FEFO in the warehouse: expiry dates, lots and quality holds
FIFO issues stock in the order it arrived, FEFO by expiry date. When each rule makes sense, how lots and expiry dates are managed, and how a system keeps blocked or short-dated stock away from customers.
- Inbound6 min read
Goods receiving in a warehouse: checks, discrepancies and putaway
An error that gets past the dock travels through the whole warehouse. What good receiving looks like step by step — from the advance notice to goods on a location — and what to do with shortages, overages and goods of doubtful quality.
- WMS basics6 min read
What is a WMS, and when does a warehouse need more than an ERP?
A WMS runs stock by location, task and scan; the ERP keeps the books. What a warehouse management system actually does, how it differs from an ERP inventory module, and the signs that you have outgrown spreadsheets.
- Stock4 min read
Pick-face replenishment: from min/max rules to tasks
An empty pick location stops a picker mid-wave. How to set a minimum and maximum, how a proposal becomes a task, and what to do when replenishment is carried out differently from the plan.
- Cycle count4 min read
Counting stock without stopping the warehouse: scope, variances and decisions
A stock count does not have to mean a closed warehouse. How a targeted scope is set, what the open-document pre-check protects and why no variance should reach the ERP without a decision.
- Traceability4 min read
Traceability from goods-in to dispatch: lot, serial number and expiry
Traceability is not built when a complaint arrives, but at receiving. What is recorded when stock comes in, how a lot is followed forwards and backwards, and what travels with the parcel on the way out.
- Outbound4 min read
Wave picking: when waves pay off, and when they do not
A wave groups orders that are picked together. When it saves walking, when one order per picker is the better choice, and why releasing a wave should be a deliberate decision.