How To Avoid “the Power” from Strangling Your Company?
How do you avoid “the Power” from strangling your company? Susan Rider explores this interesting question and tells you how to avoid this from happening to your company.
A Peek at Holiday Order Picking
As the holidays approach and people turn their minds to gift buying, distribution centers plan to see business surges. This time of year makes you focus on the need to have your process in line so that temporary employees can get up to speed as quickly as possible. Since order picking in most facilities is where all the action is, it seems appropriate to spend some time in this area–where usually the greatest opportunities for improvement can be found.
Five More Strategies for Operational Excellence
Order fulfillment is the most costly process in the distribution center. How can you increase throughput or reduce head count? First, map your current processes. Second, identify the methodology of your picking processes
Five Stratragies for Operational Excellence
Is operational excellence an illusive dream? I think not, but it is a definite commitment of time and talent every day. Below are five steps that will help you achieve this goal.