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Underneath the rock: How to inspire resilience in a pandemic This week, Sonya Law returns with another guest blog for us. Who better than a Human Resources Manager to help us to uncover what is buried underneath the rock, and how we can inspire resilience in a pandemic. “Developing resilience helps us to overcome obstacles, […]
How to create engagement and empowerment in a Pandemic. Sonya Law, of SL Human Resources Consulting, received her Human Resources Degree from Deakin University and completed her Teaching Degree with Monash University and recently Masters Business (MBA) in 2018, providing opportunities to work and study abroad in Europe and Asia. Sonya has recruited 1,000’s of […]
Embarrassed not to have Parts (ENTH) Clearly these are the parts you are embarrassed not to have when your customer comes calling. They include: filters, fluids, hardware, o-rings, GET for machines you sold, hoses (a subject of its own), keys, and any part for a machine you sold that your customer can get today at […]
Grow Your Own This week brings our third guest post from Don Shilling. Now it is time to talk about how to “grow your own” workforce. I grew up in a construction family and worked for my Dad several summers during and after high school. Then while working on my degree at North Dakota State […]
You Have to Keep Moving Forward. This year has been a challenge to everyone and everything we had in 2019. Our health is at risk. Our jobs are at risk and in some cases are gone. Our businesses are at risk. Bankruptcies are on the rise. Everything has changed. And the very foundation of our […]
The Why and the How. The transition to team management, while still encouraging personal curiosity and initiative, continues to struggle as the usual leadership doesn’t know how to encourage risk taking without contradicting the work of the team. The true story of the ages is that people will take risks when they have less to […]
Walking through airports or shopping malls you see a new item – vending machines that sell other than drinks and sweets. Theses vending machines are a new retail opportunity for some suppliers. You can buy electronics, safety items, communications products and accessories and much more. This got me to thinking about our business. Why don’t […]
The prevalent thinking is that a warehouse is strictly a store room. How wrong can we be? I remember visiting a consumer goods distribution center in Chicago and watching in awe. The order pickers were given a days work when they arrived and told they could leave when they had finished. There was another visit to […]
There has been a conflict within several suppliers regarding stock orders. Should we offer daily stock orders? Should we allow stock orders weekly or some other frequency? Let’s examine the basics. The lead time, the replenishment of an inventory, contains in it the time that exists between stock order cycles. If the stock orders happen […]
For some time now there has been a new channel to consider for specific parts in the parts business. Let me introduce you to the Kiosk. Walk through most airports today and you will find kiosks selling electronics and items such as vitamins and other related health items. Now let’s look at our parts business. […]