Temperatures are supposed to reach 100F in Boston today, and other parts of the country are going through a heat wave too. It seems like only yesterday that several feet of snow covered my driveway, lawn, and every inch of the city, which is why this card says it all today:
Last year, I wrote about how DSC Logistics implemented a labor management system (LMS) and how it helped the company improve labor productivity at its warehouses. Regular readers of Logistics Viewpoints know that I am a big fan of LMS because of its robust ROI. DSC Logistics got a 20 percent improvement in warehouse labor productivity, which is not uncommon. But at RedPrairie’s RedShift 2011 User Conference (DSC… Continue reading
If you want this, then you can’t have that…at least not for the same price or level of service. We’re quick to point out tradeoffs as sellers, and we’re often quick to accept them as buyers, sometimes without question.
But questioning tradeoffs, negating them, proving them false—finding the AND in the EITHER/OR—is a path to competitive differentiation.
This was one of my key takeaways from last week’s “… Continue reading
How can you have a satisfied warehouse workforce, and what does it take to retain them?
That was the focus of a research project conducted by Bryan Edwards, an Assistant Professor in the Department of Management at Oklahoma State University, together with Kevin Gue, an Associate Professor at the Department of Engineering at Auburn University, with funding from the Material Handling Industry of America (MHIA). I spoke to… Continue reading
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Guest Commentary: Labor Optimization in the New World
As the speed and agility of supply chains evolves, the way in which labor resources are optimized also needs to evolve in order to keep pace with the changing buying behaviors of consumers. When retailers add the ability to change where and how products are fulfilled, they also need the ability to flex resources up or down to ensure they have the right number of people to support the real-time… Continue reading
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