Operations & Fulfillment

What does it cost you every time you lose a valued employee? Have you considered all the factors (hard dollars, soft dollars, direct costs, indirect costs) you should include? If you haven’t, it will be difficult to assess which retention strategies will be profitable for you. The following is a list of costs you may want to include in your calculation.

Question: We are in the process of planning our file conversion as we implement our new order management system. Our vendor is telling us that they normally don

When a warehouse manager suspects poor system performance, the first step is typically to check the real data. Unfortunately, more than 50% of the time, system performance is measured incorrectly. Data is only as good as the methods used to calculate it; if something is measured the wrong way, the results will be wrong. This may lead to the justification of system changes, or even an entirely new system, based on imprecise data.

No matter the amount of planning or communication upfront, there’s always going to be a problematic vendor who either ships you damaged goods or consistently ships you the wrong amount.

In the first part of our series on preparing for the holiday, we listed the information that should be gathered for taking your operational pulse. This week, we’ll show you how to apply it.