Tabish Khan

Most warehouse audits I've seen focus on the wrong things first. Neat labels, clean floors, a binder full of SOPs nobody's opened in months — all of it can look great and still sit on top of a warehouse that's quietly bleeding money.

And the SOP binder is usually worse than just...

Why your SAP data is inaccurate — and it's not SAP's fault.

Every time someone tells me "our SAP data is a mess," I ask a few questions, and almost every single time, the answer has nothing to do with SAP. The system did exactly what it was told, exactly when it was told. If the...

I spent the first couple of years treating inventory accuracy like a fire drill. Count everything the week before month-end, patch whatever didn't match, submit the report, forget about it until next month.

It worked, technically. Once. Then the small gaps started piling up...

5S is not a one-time project. It's a daily standard.

When I first got involved in 5S implementation, I thought of it as a launch event — clean the area, label the bins, take a few before/after photos, done.

I was wrong.

The real work starts after the launch. 5S only holds if it's...