Training is important if you want to have consistent results. For training to be effective you most have a training manual with full descriptions for each task. This is what the teacher should use for each instruction session. The common practice of having a new hire work with a more seasoned staff member does not assure that the process will be executed the same way that you intended. Furthermore, training needs to be tested and reinforced when necessary. A significant part of every supervisor’s job is to observe how tasks are done and note how the individual performs in relation to the written method. If what the employ is doing yield better results, change the written method and re-train the rest of the staff. If the results are not better, re-train the employees.
Look for the comments by Geoff Sisko and me in “5 Low-Cost Warehouse Resolutions” in the January issue of Logistics Management. It is also in the supplement to Modern Materials Management January 2010. It present some low cost, quick to implement was to lower distribution costs in 2010.
Geoff presented his seminar “Maximizing Warehouse Space” in Chicago for WERC for the 27th time . For information about future sessions go to www.werc.org.
Editors, “From The Golden Zone”, Distribution Center Management, April 22, 2008
Joao-Pierre Ruth, “Changing Face of the Old Warehouse”, NJBiz, April 2, 2002
James A Cooke, “How labor standards LIFT productivity”, Logistics Management, March 2003
Editors, “Maximize Warehouse Space”, WERCsheet, Novemeber 6, 2009
Mima Williams and Peter Perrato, “On the Cold Front”, Supermarket News, February 12, 2001
Peter Bradley, “it’s all in the planning”, DC Velocity, May 2004
Editors, “WERC Publishes Guide to Storage Systems”, Material Handling Magazine, Novenber 2003
William & Patti Feldman, “Industrial: Dock and the Bay”, JPM Breaking New Ground, Sepember/October 2004
Jeff Berman, “Keep ‘em rolling”, Logistics Management, September 2006
Katrina C. Arade, “Top 10 Distribution Concerns”, Industrial Market Trends, March 14, 2003
Davis Drickhame, “Facility Design Trends: Changing Venue”, Material handling Management, Februrary 2006
James A Cooke, “managing by the numbers”, DC Velocity, January 2007
Editors, “Trends: Growing economy revives interest in supply chain investment, but cost control still issue”, Distribution Center Management, January 2004
Maida Napolitano, “Real warehouse and distribution stories: Low Cost Deep Impact”, Logistics Management, January 2009
William Atkins, “A lease by any other name…”, Logistics Management, October 2008
Maida Napolitano, “Value turns warehouses into distribution centers”, Modern Material Handling, December 2007
Distribution Center Management (www.distributionGroup.com) has named Geoff Sisko to their advisory Board for 2010
