MIX MASTER

| MCM staff

In addition to its 970,000-sq.-ft. distribution center, the Cornerstone facility includes a 350-seat call center and a 65,000-sq.-ft. retail store By

Fond Farewells

| Linda Water Nelson

You can’t solve the problem by using the prayer routine until everything goes bad Have a plan in place for how the workload will be divided among remaining

Talking Heads

| MCM staff

I believe the future of the catalog industry is straight up I think it will continue to grow. There is no question that the Web has enhanced the catalog

At Your Service

| Liz Kislik

Organize your menus and prompts to be mutually exclusive Recently, I’ve been asked a half dozen or so questions repeatedly in seminars, phone calls, and

PC Mall in the Black

| MCM staff

Torrance, CA–Computer reseller PC Mall (Nasdaq: MALL) reported consolidated net income for the quarter ended June 30 of $600,000, a $4 million swing

Airplane!

| Rama Ramaswami

My 12-year-old son jokes that if you want to punish people, you should hand them over to customer service. He doesn’t specify airline customer service,

HOUSE CALL

| MCM staff

If different tasks proceed at different rates, try to arrange work steps so that the faster process is executed before the slower one If your WMS is building