Warehouse and Operations as a Career

Ever said I quit? And how’d that work out for ya? I’m Marty with you here at Warehouse and Operations as a Career. Everyone had a great week? Mines been busy, I’ve strayed a bit from my normal operations tasks and have been helping develop a couple of training classes, what else took up some time this week, oh, I’ve helped develop a couple employee engagement surveys, lets see, and I’ve been worki...

Anyone every felt like they’ve missed an opportunity? Anyone ever realized they did miss an opportunity? I think more often than not we only feel like that or notice it after the fact! Welcome back to Warehouse and Operations as a Career, I’m Marty, lets talk about opportunities for a minute today. Not necessarily missed opportunities, what’d you call it, let’s say recognizing an opportunity, I th...

Last week we talked a little about Training, not classes or programs but more about the responsibilities regarding training, I just lived a perfect example of self-education and training us as employees! Welcome back to Warehouse and Operations as a Career, I’m Marty T Hawkins and I appreciate you listening in with us today. So, I’m a bit over booked today and I stopped by a neighborhood restauran...

What’s your thoughts on training? Do you think you’ve received too much, too little, to detailed, or your trainer skips around to much? I’m Marty with Warehouse and Operations as a Career, let’s talk about training today, a much deeper subject than you might expect. Here at WAOC we believe it can be the make or break point to our success. Let’s look at the responsibilities being trained and accept...

Well, the 2nd quarter is closed and behind us! We’re halfway through the year! I don’t know about ya’ll but I’m looking forward to this 3rd quarter. Q2 was a busy 13 weeks and I’ve gotta get back on track. I think I’m caught up on traveling, I’ve hit Pennsylvania, Georgia, Illinois and Nevada the last couple of months, I’ll need to make it up to Denver in the coming weeks but hey, I’m going to enj...

Warehouse and Operations as a Career here, I’m Marty back with ya and I’d like to thank you for checking back in with us today. Oh my goodness, we received a lot of feed back from last weeks episode, It’s exciting to see so many of us working our plan towards that next promotion and doing so well with our Savings! It was great hearing that so many of us are actually putting more away than we’d dis...

Welcome back, Marty here with Warehouse and Operations as a Career! Everyone has had a Productive, Prosperous and Safe week, I hope? It’s been a busy one here but busy is a good thing, means there’s plenty to do and get done right? This week I’ve had a couple of companies preparing for or wrapping up a move recently, one has already relocated to their new building and another one is in the plannin...

Hey everyone, Marty here with Warehouse and Operations as a Career, and I have absolutely no ideal what I’d like to talk about today. We’ve received so many great questions and topics suggested lately, I’ve got to try and get caught up with’em. Last week I briefly mentioned Planning and Goals and a long-time listener shared his plan with us, he didn’t want to join me recording it but was happy for...

Welcome back to Warehouse and Operations as a Career, I’m Marty and I appreciate you listening in today! Everyone know what FIFO is? It simply means first in first out when we’re dealing with product. I heard about an employee losing his position because he pulled 30 cases from the newest pallet received, a pallet that had just been received that day. Now he knew that wasn’t best practice, as a ma...

Productivity, productivity is one of those all-encompassing words in our industry, do we really understand it? I’m Marty with Warehouse and Operations as a Career and I thought we’d talk about productivity a little today! One of our listeners is so close to getting his next level of pay or incentive, just so close. It appears his Supervisor pulled him aside last week and kind of gave him a verbal...

Hello all, I’m Marty and this is Warehouse and Operations as a Career. Last week we were in the Midwest, we had the opportunity to visit a couple of different types of distribution facilities and speak with several associates, Unloaders, Selectors and forklift drivers, I had a really good conversation with a sanitation lead. It’s great to see all the passion and professionalism, I guess it’s the w...

Today I thought we’d talk about another Op’s position; it can be a great avenue to the transportation departments and even a reboot to our careers in a way! I’m Marty T Hawkins with Warehouse and Operations as a Career and I appreciate you checking in with us again this week! With the seasons changing I wanted to talk a little on Heat Stress too, I think we’ve covered it a couple of times already...

Marty here with Warehouse and Operations as a Career and were back at The Taste of Oak Cliff Festival. We had a blast out here last year, and with an invitation from Belmar Integrated Logistics we jumped at a chance to come on out and talk with everyone that stopped by their Recruiting Booth today! I even ran into a couple of people I’d had the pleasure to help secure new positions for in the past...

We appreciate you stopping in this week, I’m Marty with the Warehouse and Operations as a Career Podcast! We’ve been working on a few shows coming up next month, breaking into the transportation fields, 3pl’s and a little on freight brokerage! Until then though, lets talk a little about being an equipment operator. We’ve been discussing several of the different positions in the warehouse and how t...

Warehouse and Operations as a Career and I’m Marty T Hawkins, I think this is the first episode that we don’t have a title picked out as we’re recording it. I usually work off of at least some bullet points or some article to talk to. Its storming really bad here in Dallas TX, I hope the episode sounds alright for ya today! Well, let’s pick a topic, I’ve worked on accident investigations all week...

Hello again, Marty T Hawkins with Warehouse and Operations as a Career. I was asked again this week if becoming or accepting a promotion to Supervisor was or would be a good move. It seems I’m asked that pretty regularly, so I thought we’d talk about Supervision for a few minutes today. My answer is always unequivocally yes! I’m probably wrong to say that but seriously, if that’s a part of our pla...

Thanks for listening in to Warehouse and Operations as a Career today, I’m Marty, and we appreciate you stopping by! Last week we were in Atlanta Georgia, I had the opportunity to be a part of a large hiring event there, it was my second time to get to visit and meet job applicants out there and I really enjoyed meeting so many Career driven individuals! This week I’ve been helping out again in th...

Welcome to Warehouse and Operations as a Career and the 2nd quarter of 2019! I’m Marty T Hawkins and I appreciate you checking in with us today! So how’d the last 13 weeks treat you? I hope it was Productive and Prosperous, did you stick to your plan, obtain all those 1st quarter goals? We’ve received so many messages about pay increases and advancements made, keep up the good work! If your plan w...

And another weeks flown by, I’m Marty T Hawkins with Warehouse and Operations as a Career. I appreciate you listening in again today! Over the last several weeks we’ve been talking about the many different positions or tasks in the warehouse. I want to thank everyone for sharing their experiences with the group and sending in your questions, I’ll make sure we get all those answered as soon as we c...

Marty with Warehouse and Operations as a Career here, lets see, what do we have for this week. I wanted to talk about putaway today. The putaway positions came up the last couple of shows, and we’ve learned how close the task is linked to the receiving functions and runner positions but we haven’t discussed it’s function just yet so todays the day! Ok, a little about the putaway task. It’s a forkl...

Warehouse and Operations as a Career and I’m Marty T Hawkins, everyone having an outstanding week I hope! I was recently asked why I’ve mentioned planning in the last two episodes? I won’t go into Goals and Planning today but I did urge the listener to check out our episodes on just those very topics. But I will however remind everyone that if we’re not working off of a plan, a direction towards o...

Welcome to Week 10 of 2019 and to Episode 128 of Warehouse and Operations as a Career. I’m Marty T Hawkins and WAOC is in Orlando Florida today. I had an opportunity to visit a conference this week, I always enjoy seeing old friends in the industry and learning something new every day! Speaking of learning and being that we’re almost thru the 1st quarter, how’s everyone doing with their plans and...

Welcome to Warehouse and Operations as a Career, I’m Marty and today I thought we’d talk a little about the Unloading or Lumper Position. We’ve been catching up on some questions and topic suggestions over the last 3 or 4 weeks, and we’ve seen a lot of sharing with’em so I thought we’d go over this one again. I saw a question about an open position in a parts warehouse and the young lady asked exa...

Hey hey, Marty T Hawkins with Warehouse and Operations as a Career here with you again! Let’s see, it’s been a busy week, where are we at now, so this is episode 126. Last week we only got to one question that’d been sent in, it was about the receiver position, I hope we covered it pretty well and all understood it’s possibilities or learned a little more than we knew already! I’ve received a coup...

Welcome again to Warehouse and Operations as a Career, I’m Marty and we’re grateful you stopped in for a visit! I’ve gotten way behind on a couple of questions and I thought we’d try and catch up this week. First off I’d like to talk about the Receiving Position today. In the distribution world our freight comes in on trailers or containers, usually, if merchandising has their days on hand figured...