I was recently having lunch with my FedEx rep who was telling me about his inability to convince other clients to invest as much as we do in our fulfillment processes. I’ve heard the same story from my UPS rep. They’ve gone in and performed studies and made recommendations and none of them are ever put into action. This is also…
Having just concluded a 4 day break from work, where I actually shut down my email and focused on my family, I went back to work with a new perspective today. With that new perspective I was able to accomplish a weeks worth of things that affect long term goals. It was pretty unbelievable to me, things I was fighting…
If you visit a gym regularly, once November hits the jokes about the impending swarm of new years “resolutioners” begins. For about 2 months the gym will be a crowded nightmare until the majority of the “resolutioners” lose motivation and return to their regular habits. Because of things like this the whole New Years resolution concept has a bad rep…
Being an avid 4 Hour Workweek fan I was always interested in outsourcing work overseas to lower cost, higher skilled people. Several years ago I then finally started hiring teams for various data entry projects in the Philippines, and fast forward a few years and I now have 3 full time employees in the Philippines and work with 2 computer…
Until I started setting up a high volume warehouse I never gave much consideration to routes and pick methods. I quickly learned though after choosing the wrong picking method that this can have a gigantic impact. Once I found the right one for my operation the challenge became keeping the pickers busy throughout the workday instead of trying to catch…
When I first started out in e-commerce we would go to trade shows and nearly beg everyone to allow us to sell their products, much of the time we were rejected. Over time though slowly the tables began to turn as the sites I worked for gained popularity. Ultimately we had a long queue of requests from vendors to be…
Having a toddler running around the house lately has greatly reduced the amount of reading I’m getting done lately. What I’ve really gotten into though is podcasts. It’s the perfect thing at the gym or commute to get your thoughts flowing so I’m hooked for sure. Listening to a good podcast has many times gotten me through a rough traffic…
Today with great excitement I’d like to announce the launch of a software application I’ve been working on for a long time. Supplier Partner is a browser based tool you use to manage your product catalog that replaces spreadsheets and makes your information instantly accessible to your resellers. It replaces your spreadsheet (or whatever you use) on which you store your product…
This is my first post in nearly a month, and that last post was about panicking at work, so I guess you could say I’ve been busy! I’ve been leading some major overhauls at my company which have, predictably, caused some unintended consequences. So between that and spending time with family there hasn’t been much time to blog. Along those same lines…
As I write this post, I’m in the midst of what has turned out to be a very hectic and turbulent launch of some new warehouse management software. We’re in week three of working through all the unexpected bugs and our shipping volume is still only at half what it was before the launch, and that’s actually an accomplishment compared to…
