How much should you charge to wash all the windows in Seattle?
According to a blog posting at Business Insider, this is one of the questions Google asks prospective employees during the interview process. Other questions include:
Earlier this year, I suggested that an economist should negotiate your next 3PL contract. I referenced a report by The International Association for Contract and Commercial Management (IACCM) that contrasted key differences between the way lawyers and economists approach negations. Here is an excerpt:
Economists have moved beyond this point [assuming selfishness and that economic interest is ‘best served by looking after yourself, at the expense of… Continue reading
I’d always thought that the best places to recruit new graduates for a career in supply chain were universities with strong supply chain and logistics programs, such as Georgia Tech, MIT, Penn State, and the University of Tennessee (to name a few). The thought of hiring industrial engineers never occurred to me. But after a recent conversation with Andres Carrano from the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT), where he is… Continue reading
(Editor’s Note: This is the final part of a series on warehouse labor standards. Click here to read Parts 1-5).
The most granular labor standards are based on time studies or predetermined time systems (PTS). MSD and MOST, in turn, are the two most prevalent methodologies used to develop PTS time standards for the warehouse.
I talked to subject matter experts at several consulting and software organizations… Continue reading
When it comes to creating labor standards for the warehouse, both time studies and predetermined time systems (PTS) appear to create highly accurate and granular labor standards. But how objective are they really?
The truth is that there is some subjectivity associated with time studies and PTS. Time studies have something called “pace and skill ratings” that consultants use to normalize the raw stopwatch data. If a worker… Continue reading
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