News in the Warehousing & Distribution field
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This section is to provide you with articles and information to help you keep current with your supply chain industry business.
| 1/13/10 | Waller & Associates introduces Work Measurement ServicesWaller & Associates introduces our new Work Measurement Services as part of our growing Warehousing and Distribution services. This new service concentrates on helping our clients assess and modify their productivity and reduce operating costs through the application of time and motion study and activity sampling techniques including Lean practices and MOST. |
| 12/16/09 | Waller & Associates joins the Clean Air CampaignWaller & Associates has partnered with The Clean Air Campaign, the Georgia non-profit organization committed to improving air quality and reducing traffic congestion, as a Teleworking partner. Daily use of video-conferencing, digital files, e-mail, and FTP technologies allows us to connect our clients, offices and consultants throughout the world while creating much less impact on our world’s environment. |
| 12/10/09 | Rick Waller joins Waller & Associates as Managing DirectorWaller & Associates is proud to announce that Rick Waller has joined our management team on December 1st as Managing Director of Marketing and Press Relations. Rick brings over 30 years of experience to our firm, having owned his own Marketing and Communications businesses, to help our supply chain clients optimize their warehouse operations and logistics through technical training and website tools. |
| 11/24/09 | Waller & Associates Implements New Supply Chain Industry BlogHelping our supply chain clients stay up-to-date in your warehouse operations and logistics and therefore enabling your organization be the most efficient and profitable, the DistributionBlog by Waller & Associates, LLC, our new blog site, has been introduced. Our Warehousing and Distribution consultants and other guest experts in the Supply Chain arena will be posting timely blogs focused on what is new and what is proven in transportation, logistics, and supply chain operations. Please join us by reading, commenting, and following this important source of industry news and techniques. It is available as RSS feeds and soon on Twitter and Facebook. |
| 10/30/09 | Join Waller & Associates at next week's WERC Atlanta Council's Logistics Disaster Recovery Planning dinnerRecent events like the Atlanta flood can put a tremendous stress on supply chains. More importantly, an effective supply chain operation can help alleviate post natural disaster issues by speeding up first responder and self support services and supplies. Join this interactive discussion panel to learn how The Home Depot, UPS and American Red Cross plan for natural disasters from a continuous operations, customer service, and first responder perspective. |
| 10/29/09 | McLane Advanced Technologies (MAT) awards Waller & Associates contract extension to provide distribution & warehousing consulting services for the U.S. Defense Logistics AgencyVisit the MAT Distribution section of their website. |
| 10/28/09 | DC Velocity Magazine Interviews Jeff Waller, President of Waller & Associates, LLC, on Grocers Distribution Center AutomationWhen it comes to warehouse automation, the U.S. grocery industry has long been the final frontier. For decades, grocers' warehouses and distribution centers remained untouched by the wave of automation sweeping through the nation's DCs. While pharmaceutical, electronics, and consumer goods facilities all around them installed the latest automated material handling systems, grocers clung to their manual ways. Jeff Waller, President of Waller & Associates, LLC Distribution & Warehousing consulting firm was recently contacted by DC Velocity Magazine to comment on the reasons grocers have been reluctant to automate their distribution centers. |
