How docs determine whether your truck unloads in 2 hours or 2 days.
Why this matters
Operations teams keep rediscovering the same lessons. This post lays out the patterns that actually move the needle on asn and bol hygiene: tiny files, big receive wins.
The core idea
Throughput, not headcount, is the lever. Measure cycle time at every step and the bottleneck reveals itself.
A practical example
A 12-person prep center in Memphis cut receive-to-putaway from 4 hours to 90 minutes by changing two things — neither of them software.
