(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
I’ve been hearing about hospitals implementing warehouse management systems (WMS) in France and Canada. This is a new industry for WMS. So, when Oracle (an ARC client) mentioned that The Ottawa Hospital (TOH) was a WMS customer, I asked if I could interview them. Oracle put me in contact with Cameron Love, Vice President of Planning, Support Services and Clinical Programs at TOH, and with Joanne Read, Director… Continue reading
I spent most of this week at the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP) Global Annual Conference in San Diego. I will have more to say about the conference next week, but overall it was very productive and informative (if you were lucky and attended the “right” sessions) and it remains one of the best events for networking. The only negative was a personal one: Seconds after I got… Continue reading
Companies can use several different types of standards to set goals for how long it should take employees to complete different tasks in a warehouse. Today I want to describe how single and multi-variable standards are developed, and their pros and cons.
(As in Part 1 of this series, Al Gagnon and Tom Stretar of enVista provided me with information that was particularly helpful in writing this article)… Continue reading
Back in July, I wrote a posting about the great results that DSC Logistics received after implementing a Labor Management System (LMS) in its warehouses. In one section I wrote that DSC “used a predetermined time system, Master Standard Data, as its methodology.” I knew at the time that some readers would not understand that reference, but I didn’t have the time or space to explain.
So today… Continue reading
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