What are the Responsibilities of Warehouse Supervisors and Warehouse Operators?

Warehouse Supervisors - produce reports for each operator that now can be generated and used to implement productivity based remuneration schemes or to sack unproductive employees.

Those warehouses that have to cope up with Union problems, these reports can help the company tremendously. Warehouse management system can track warehouses activities efficiently. It provides a comprehensive set of web-enabled reports detailing all the activities happening in the warehouse and their effect on the inventory management. The system also helps to detect bottlenecks in operations, which can increase the overall turn over of the warehouse.

Warehouse Operators have to scan the barcodes which is the graphical user interfaces (GUIs) that the warehouse management systems provide. Thus warehouse management systems had lightened the operator’s tasks and made the data input process fast, increasing the overall efficiency of the operator. Programs like ‘Locating’ and ‘Pulling’ are specially designed to run on hand-held radio frequency terminals. These terminals make the task of pickers and locators easy. Modern warehouse management systems programs have been coded with extra emphasis on scanner based data input to minimize the need for keyboard or mouse input.