Warehouse & Inventory Management (E147)

Kim WrenDirector of Business Development at SkuVault Sponsors: Drip – Get a free demo of Drip using this coupon code!Spark Shipping – Dropshipping Automation Software Bio: Kim Wren is the Director of Business Development at SkuVault, a cloud-based Inventory & Warehouse Management System. With over 20 years of eCommerce experience, Kim has held many roles. She has done everything from multi-channel eCommerce seller herself to launching products and brands, to leading an award-winning customer service team. Kim currently works with partners, consultants, affiliates, and 3PL’s to assist in the growth of SkuVault. She has a passion for Small-Medium eCommerce businesses and is always available to answer questions & assist etailers to enrich their businesses. Links: http://www.skuvault.comhttps://www.linkedin.com/company/skuvaulthttps://www.instagram.com/skuvaulthttps://www.facebook.com/SkuVault/ Transcript: Charles (00:00): Welcome to the Business of eCommerce the show that helps e-commerce retailers start launch and grow their e-commerce businesses. I'm here today with Kim Wren. Kim is a director of business development at SkuVault, a cloud-based inventory and warehouse management system. I've known him for a while. She's an expert in everything skew vault inventory lid, where I was managing unrelated. So I asked her in the show to talk about if you're a retailer and you're looking at setting up a warehouse, what are some do's? And don'ts, what are some things you should definitely be looking for? And just some random tips that can really help you in the initial setup and save you some time in the long run. So it's a super interesting show. I hope you guys enjoy it. Leave any comments, any likes, always appreciated, and we'll get onto the show and his interview with Kim. So again, how are you doing today? Kim (00:57): I'm great. How are you today, Charles? Doing good. Charles (01:00): Glad to have you on the show. It's Kim (01:02): Hi. I appreciate it. Thank you for giving me the time. Yeah. Charles (01:04): Yeah. Well, inventory management, I feel like there's something I haven't spoken about very much on the show. And from working directly with quite a few retailers, everyone kind of does it, but it's not, it's just not a topic you kind of see discussed very often and I'm not really sure maybe, cause it's not like, you know, there's like optimizing ads. There is the boring side of it, but it is what comes down and makes, you know, makes a lot of these businesses work. So it's just interesting that it's not something we duck into very often. It's kind of excited to get into the details. So director of business development, ski vault ski vault is a WMS right where I was managing system. Kim (01:44): We are we're WMS with IMS and WMS built together. We like to make sure that people understand we do both. But there's a lot of crossover in the industry. Everybody has their hands in inventory, some way shape or form. We just go really deep in the warehouse and do a lot in the warehouse as far as routing workers, making sure that people can find things and keeping your warehouse organized in addition to all of the inventory functions as well. Charles (02:09): Yeah. I think that's the thing when everyone kind of has the inventory management, right? Like everyone has a shop in Congress and it's inventory, but when you actually start talking about warehouse management, there's a whole different layer of that, right? Like the barcode scanner is, and like people moving around and like what pallet is in row 36. So all of that is like actually, you know, managing the warehouse. Right. That's what I stopped. Kim (02:31): Making sure that you're getting the people in the right place. Yes. Using the barcode scanners, making sure that you're picking the right item and the right quantity and getting it to the right station for shipping. So that you're, you know,