Warehouse And Operations As A Career

Welcome to Warehouse and Operations as a Career and to 2020!  I’m Marty and I thought we’d talk a little about seeking employment or finding a job today.  Its just not as easy as it sounds.  No matter what industry were in.  2 weeks ago, we talked about the millions of square feet of warehouse...

In the world of warehousing, wither we’re in manufacturing, production or distribution we have a saying, Get the doors closed.  Our supervisors and managers use that amongst themselves and their bosses, that’s their primary goal for the shift.  Now that encompasses controlling their hours, meeting their production or productivity needs and setting the plate for...

Welcome to week 51 of 2019 everybody, and to episode #169 of Warehouse and Operations as a Career and I’m Marty T Hawkins.  Next week we’ll find ourselves wrapped up in the Holidays and Christmas.  I know it’s pretty much a regular work week for a lot of us, well I guess there’s some time...

Warehouse and Operations as a Career, I’m Marty, and I had pallets on my mind this week, thought we’d talk about that for a minute today!  Back in March we looked into the history of the skid or pallet and talked about how it came to be, why there’s so many different sizes and its...

I was walking a facility earlier last month and saw one of the new model scissor lifts.  The plant manager asked me if I knew anything about one of these, and, well, I had to say no.  It may have had the most futuristic control console I’ve ever seen.  I’m Marty with you here today...

Hi Everyone!  Warehouse and Operations as a Career, I’m Marty, is everyone wrapping up their year?  Was it as prosperous as you’d hoped? Not just monetary wise but did we achieve the growth professionally that we aimed for?   If not you’re ready for 2020’ though right?   Well I’m getting ahead of myself, let’s put all...

Back at you with Warehouse and Operations as a Career, I’m Marty and I have no idea what all I’d like to talk about today!  I’m way behind again on our Q & A but I haven’t really pulled up anything.  You know what, lets start off with our PM’s or the preventative maintenance programs...

Have you ever been accused or caught horse playing at work? I’ve seen so many meme’s on social media this week I’d like to talk about that for a minute.  Welcome back everyone.  I’m Marty with Warehouse and Operations as a Career!  My first trip to HR was over a bit of horseplay.  Me and...

So, isn’t warehousing just another job, I know you can advance anywhere with any job but it’s just a paycheck when it’s all said and done?  Hi, I’m Marty with Warehouse and Operations as a Career.  If you’ve listened to any of our episodes you know we here at WAOC throw a little more passion...

Welcome back to Warehouse and Operations as a Career, I’m Marty T Hawkins and I thank you for taking the time to check back in with us today.  Last week WAOC had the privilege of attending the WERC conference in Grapevine, Tx.  We really enjoyed all the learning sessions and visiting with all the vendors. ...

Welcome back to Warehouse and Operations as a Career!  I’m Marty, and I’d like to apologize for the background noise today up front, hey you got to record where you can right!  I wanted to take a moment and thank everyone for the comments last week that were sent in, we really appreciate all the...

Marty here with you at Warehouse and Operations as a Career!  Let’s see, what week are we in now, 42, wow…we have 10 weeks left to hit our goals!  I have a quick topic I’d like to talk about today but first I wanted to share that it’s been a tough week this week.  Sometimes...

Welcome to Warehouse and Operations as a Career, I’m Marty, everyone having a prosperous and productive week?  We’ve been discussing how there’s so many ways to break into the operations fields, all the different get our foot in the door positions and how we can target our employers or the companies we’d like to work...

WAOC is always talking about Advancement, Planning and Careers, but aren’t their warehouse and operations positions for us seeking part time positions or maybe just seasonal work?  Hello all, I’m Marty with Warehouse and Operations as a Career and the answer to that question is Certainly, and some great ones actually.  I started to say...

Welcome to Warehouse and Operations as a Career, I’m Marty and we appreciate you visiting with us again today!  Its State Fair time here in Texas, where we don’t take this particular fair lightly.  Our State Fair runs for 4 weeks and is a big deal around here.  Last years attendance was a little over...

So, your warehouse is full!  The warehouse manager is all over you, there having to work hard at replenishment or bringing product down from the reserves and over fill all the pick locations just to make room for all the pallets scheduled to come in today!  An then you have merchandising calling every ten minutes...

I’m Marty T Hawkins here with Warehouse and Operations as a Career!  I hope it’s starting to cool off a little now in whatever part of the country you’re in.  I’m in Texas, it’s still more than lukewarm here but we’ll be on the cooler side of that 100 degree mark hopefully starting next week! ...

WAOC is in the southern states this week, Georgia actually!  Marty here with Warehouse and Operations as a Career.  I had the opportunity to visit with a couple of facilities over here, one to speak to Safety, nothing going on, just a short follow-up visit!  It’s always nice to talk Safety to such a group...

I’m Marty and your back with Warehouse and Operations as a Career!  A few listeners did not have a problem pointing out that last week we did not make it to a few of the Shipping and Transportation positions so I thought we’d start off there today!  So we wrapped up last week with the...

Welcome back to Warehouse and Operations as a Career, the Podcast about Operations, by Operations men and women.  We try and bring you a little information each week about warehousing and transportation, 2 fields within our industry that you won’t find a more passionate group of people to connect with than our WAOC group!  I’m...