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Warehousing Economics: Why Space, Labour and Pick Rates Decide Margin

Warehousing is often treated as a back-office function. Stock comes in, stock is stored, stock is picked, packed and dispatched. But from a CFO and FP&A perspective, warehousing is much more than storage. It is one of the key places where margin is either protected or lost. For many Australian businesses, warehousing sits directly between sales growth and cash flow pressure. A business may increase revenue, add customers, expand product range and process more orders, but still experience...