Tabish Khan
I fix warehouse chaos SOPs, SAP & Excel system for ops team
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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...
The most expensive warehouse problem usually isn't inventory.
It's repetitive work.
Recently, I analyzed a warehouse process where the team was manually creating SAP transactions every day. The process itself wasn't difficult—it was just repeated hundreds of times.
By building an...
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...
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...
