3 benefits of building your workforce strategy based on performance
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Does your safety program need a reset? Spring is a great time to evaluate and fine tune your safety policies and procedures.
As modern operations become increasingly fast paced, the role of the supply chain is becoming even more significant. With new changes coming to the industry, you may be questioning if you can keep up.
With CPU pricing, you get a fixed-cost labor solution that aligns with your business objectives and provides budget certainty. Learn more about this unique model with our exclusive webinar.
Turnover is a problem that plagues all employers. But turnover in the distribution and fulfillment sections can be even more costly.
A Fortune 100 American sports merchandise corporation engaged in the design, development, manufacturing and worldwide marketing and sales of footwear, apparel, equipment and accessories.
If you have too many people on the clock at once, you’ll find that you’re not only needlessly spending extra on payroll, but you could also lose money due to a decrease in the quality of your output.
How much work can your operations accomplish? You should know the throughput capabilities of your facility at each moment in time.
As businesses are struggling with production challenges and need to do more with less, SIMOS Solutions can help you increase productivity, lower costs, and improve worker retention. With our solutions in place, you can focus on making the best product—we’ll take care of the people.
Being ready for the peak season is an essential aspect of any retail, fulfillment, reverse logistics, or distribution-based business. Evaluating how the peak season went this year can help your business in making improvements in the future. Use this evaluation to reflect how your peak season went this year.
This Fortune 100 eCommerce DC opened their Elwood facility in 2007 as a co-managed operation with SIMOS as the sole 3PL operator. At the time, SIMOS was the only facility as a 3PL provider operating Gate to Gate in their eCommerce network.
A Fortune 1,000 upscale casual wear retailer had exceeded peak capacity in their automated direct-to-consumer distribution center. A new automated distribution center would not be ready for their next peak season. To avoid providing a negative customer experience, and maintain output quality and expected delivery dates, the client sought a vendor who would be able to provide training, staffing and quality output.
SIMOS implemented a fourth shift staffed with six SIMOS supervisors and 94 SIMOS employees across the facility. SIMOS developed departmental SOP’s for all work processes within the facility and incorporated them into our pre-training and continuous training programs. The SIMOS Engineering team worked with the customer’s management team to obtain visibility of freight available on the yard.
The madness of holiday shopping may be over, but post-peak can be just as chaotic if you aren’t prepared. Here are 3 things to consider in your post-peak season.
Greg Bell, Senior Compliance Counsel at TrueBlue, discusses some of the biggest workplace compliance challenges and how your organization can overcome them.