Operations and Management: Sophisticated Self-Service
If you’ve ever subscribed to the Book of the Month Club, you’re familiar with auto-replenishment: The customer places one order and then takes delivery
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Warehouses Woo Absent Workers
The Dec. 2002 issue of WERCwatch reports on warehouse employee attendance trends and ways to manage absenteeism. With the annual cost of absenteeism rising
Are Spin-offs Paying Off?
By all accounts, spring 2001 wasn’t the best time to launch a catalog spin-off. The Internet crash of late 2000 was infecting the economy at large like
J.C. Penney Continues Editing Its Catalog Division
Don’t call J.C. Penney’s ongoing plans for its catalog division downsizing. Instead, think of it as editing. We’re editing the merchandise for a customer
A WINNING Combination
Three years ago, when Circuit City was puzzling over how to set up its e-commerce fulfillment system, the electronics retailer could have gone in any
Production Page: DIY–Taking on Production Tasks
Bringing some of your production, prepress, and photography processes inhouse can save you time and, in the long run, money. But that’s only if you have
Best Practices in the Worst of Times
Statistics and forecasts are all very well, but you want to know what your peers are really doing to keep their operations afloat in straitened economic
’Snow Joke: Warehouse Collapse Halts Catalog Fulfillment
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Short Takes: Shrink-Wrapped
Warehouse network contraction and expansion are a way to restructure to meet the demands of the economy, and current restructuring has a definite vector
New Pig Nearly Burned by Fire
When a fire destroyed one of New Pig’s three buildings on its Tipton, PA, campus this past Halloween, the manufacturer/marketer of industrial cleanup