On August 30th, O’Reilly Auto Parts gave a presentation to financial analysts from one of its distribution centers (DCs) in Kansas City, Missouri. This signaled that the company considers distribution excellence to be a core differentiator, a message that comes out loud and clear when you look through the presentation the company gave.
O’Reilly Auto Parts is an auto parts retailer with $5.6 billion in sales over… Continue reading
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
When it comes to supply chain management, anytime you can take discrete pieces of work and group them together intelligently, you have the opportunity to optimize. The more time you have, and the more discrete pieces of work you can group together, the larger the potential savings from optimization.
I recently wrote about waving in the warehouse. Wave management is based on intelligently grouping together a batch of… 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: Cultural Transformation is at the Core of Continuous Improvement in Warehousing and Distribution
Today, more than ever before, companies are looking for ways to implement Lean manufacturing concepts into their distribution and warehousing network as a way to control costs and improve operational performance. This research often leads to the purchase of new technology or equipment. But while investment in these tools might create incremental savings, there’s a far more effective resource that’s often overlooked: employees.
The successful implementation of Lean in… Continue reading
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