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Warehouse & DC Operations Survey: Ready to confront complexity 2016 Warehouse/DC Operations Survey: Ready to Confront Complexity Weighing the Value of Dimensional Data Talking fashion with Greg Hewitt, CEO of DHL Express U.S Case Study: LEAN Yields Big Results More Warehouse News Case Study: LEAN Yields Big Results Every day, companies across a wide range of industries use LEAN in their supply chains, warehouses and distribution centers, finance departments, and customer service centers, among other areas. LEAN practices improve safety, quality, and productivity by extracting cost and waste from all facets of an operation – from the procurement of raw materials to the shipment of finished goods. All Resources In fact, most of the data that our research team dug out of this annual project point to the fact that logistics professionals involved in warehouse and DC management are not only fully cognizant of the order fulfillment complexities and other challenges associated with e-commerce, but they’re making the investments and process adjustments necessary to keep pace. Contributing editor Roberto Michel offers readers a peek at the overall findings of the survey starting on page 48. For this year’s analysis, Michel is joined once again by Don Derewecki , a senior consultant with St. Onge Company , and Norm Saenz, Jr. , a managing director with St. Onge, a supply chain engineering consulting firm and Logistics Management’s partner for this annual research. The feature is just the start. The entire research team will take a more comprehensive look at all of the findings in our annual survey Webcast on Thurs. Nov. 17. Attendees will be able to download the full data set at that time. “It’s encouraging news across the board,” says Michel. “From tweaking operational processes, to tapping labor as a means of flexing capacity, to incrementally applying more […]
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