Talking Heads
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Operations & Fulfillment
Pearl Harbor Film a Money-maker for MBI
Movie-studio honchos aren’t the only people delighting in the success of the blockbuster film Pearl Harbor. St. Paul, MN-based MBI, which produces the
HOUSE CALL
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
Nightmare on Main Street
Best fits will meet 70%-80% of your needs before modification Here’s an operations and fulfillment professional’s nightmare: After months of research
Dot.con
Long, long ago, there lived a poor farmer whose sole desire in life was to own a cow. After scrimping for many years, he saved up enough money to purchase
Airplane!
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,
No Clue
Total pricing for 3PF services is about 18% to 22% of gross sales Following the stock market, consumer confidence indices, and recent earnings reports
Have It Your Way
Instead of having to fumble through layers of pre-designed computer interfaces, you can now customize your warehouse inventory control interface to give
THE CUTTING EDGE
If you were a doctor treating the human body, you would try, as far as possible, to save a diseased limb, not hack it off with abandon. But if you were
opinion & response
Word on the Sheet In your April Backword (Sheets Fit Only for a King or Queen), I found your jab at cataloger Anthropologie for not stocking full- or