Warehouse and Operations as a Career

Thanks for joining us today, Marty here with Warehouse and Operations as a Career. What do we have on the schedule today, oh hey, we’re working on an episode where we’ll be discussing what a 3pl is, why companies use them and what opportunities they can bring to us as Employees. I think you’ll find it interesting, I’ve reached out to a couple of subject matter experts and I hope to have it put tog...

Marty here with you with Warehouse and Operations as a Career and I hope your having a Safe and Productive week out there! I went up north to Philadelphia Pennsylvania for a conference week before last. It was very informative and it’s always good getting to see one’s peers and attending all the classes and sessions. This was quite a large gathering, I believe It was upwards of 2000 attendees and...

Marty here with Warehouse and Operations as a Career! I hope you enjoy our show each week and we’re offering up something you can take away from it and it helps you in your career some how or way. We have a lot of fun sharing our experiences and really enjoy getting to throw in an opinion or two every once and a while! Don’t forget about our Facebook & Twitter page’s where you can find us @whseand...

Hello all, I’ve got Joe on the phone with us today and as I promised last week he’s all ready to educate us about HACCP and share a little information about what we might encounter with an OSHA Audit! How are you doing Joe? JOE – I’m always doing better when I talk safety Marty, its great to be here. I know you’ve ran a production facility, a quite large operation before. Did you have any HACCP fr...

Hey everyone I hope you’re having a great week, Marty here with Warehouse and Operations as a Career. It’s been busy around here, I just finished up a 4 part series on Leadership with quite possibly the strongest, brightest and most motivated group of young Leads and Supervisors I’ve had the privilege to speak with to date. They’ve got their plans put together and I’m betting each of them are goin...

Warehouse and Operations as a Career back at ya! Let’s see, where we at now, its already week 28 of 2018 and we’re on episode 94 of the podcast, wow times flying by this year! I’m Marty T Hawkins and I hope you’ve all had a Safe, productive and most importantly a prosperous week so far, shoot a Safe, productive and prosperous year so far. We’re just a little over half way through the year and I’m...

Hello and Can you believe another week’s wrapping up! Marty here with you with the Warehouse and Operations as a Career Podcast. Two weeks ago, we mentioned Narrow Aisles while talking about Stand up forklifts and forward steer and reverse steer units and I thought it’d be interesting to talk about that history a little bit. I reached out to WAOC’s good friend Joe, as you’ll remember from several...

Hello all, Marty T Hawkins here with Warehouse and Operations as a Career where we talk about what we do, what we are passionate about which is the many Warehousing, Transportation and Operations Careers available to us. We have a lot of fun with the Podcast and try our best to get to all your questions and thoughts about the jobs and the task we as associates perform each day. As I’ve mentioned b...

Gosh here we are on episode 91 of Warehouse and Operations as a Career, and it looks like we’re winding down with the 2nd quarter already! I’m Marty and I thought we’d get caught up on a few of the questions you’ve sent in over the last 13 weeks or so. I hope everyone has had a safe and prosperous quarter and that all your planning is getting you to those goals we set at the beginning of the year....

Hey all, Warehouse and Operations as a Career is in Bolingbrook Illinois today, I’m Marty and I’ve looked up Phillip and Lavoil, you’ll remember Phillip from several previous episodes, he’s shared his thoughts on a wealth of subjects with us before, and Lavoil’s visited us twice I think, I believe the last time was episode 58 where he talked about operating the slip-sheet machine! Phillip, thanks...

Welcome back again, I’m Marty here at warehouse and operations as a career. Last week we talked about short on trucks, mis picks and damages and we mentioned incentives that may be offered to selectors and loaders for improving error ratios within the company. Well, over the last week I heard about a couple of other incentives or bonuses being offered or being considered at different facilities th...

It’s been another great week hasn’t it! I’m Marty and I’d like to thank you for joining us again here at Warehouse and Operations as a Career. This week let’s spend a few minutes on controlling expenses. I had a conversation last week with a V.P. of Op’s about a facility that had had over 1000 short on truck cases the previous week. That’s a huge error ratio and creates a very real expense to the...

Thanks for stopping back in with us today, Marty T Hawkins here with Warehouse and Operations as a Career. Today I’d like to share a situation I ran across last week that I think is a relatively new issue in our industry, well, I guess it’s always been an important issue but maybe we just have to take it more seriously now than ever before. That issue is workplace violence, more importantly how ev...

Warehouse and Operations as a Career swung by the Belmar Integrated Logistics Garland office this morning for a quick visit and I caught Sharon and Ivan with a few minutes to sit down with me, so of course I grabbed the mic’s and took advantage of the situation for a bit. I’m Marty and today we’ll do a little follow-up on a few of the questions you’ve sent in over the last several weeks! I’ve got...

Welcome to the 19th week of the year! I’m Marty, and I’d like to thank you for joining me here at Warehouse and Operations as a Career! We have several new subscribers that’s joined us recently and I’d like to thank them for clicking that little Subscribe button & encourage you to share your thoughts and suggestions on topics with us by joining our Facebook and Twitter feeds where we can be found...

Welcome back to Warehouse and Operations as a Career, I’m Marty, and I hope you’re having a Productive and Prosperous week. Can you believe it’s May already, we’re in the 5th Month of 2018, times flying by. This week I had the opportunity to slow down a little and get back to the basics. I really enjoyed speaking with some warehouseman at a couple different facilities. I had a few site visits sche...

Thanks for stopping in today with us here at Warehouse and Operations as a Career, I’m Marty and I hope you enjoy today’s episode and something we talk about here will bring some value to your Career! We’ve had some really good topic suggestions and questions over the last several weeks, and we’ll try and talk to all of them this quarter, and keep them coming in, email host@warehouseandoperationsa...

Welcome everyone, Thanks for checking back in with us here at Warehouse and Operations as a Career, I’m Marty and today I’d like to talk a little about Leadership, or I guess really about the, I don’t know what to call it actually, I guess the Drive or the Motivation, maybe it’s Passion that I’m seeing in so many young Associates or Leaders coming from the floor these days! The last few months we’...

Marty here with Warehouse and Operations as a Career and we’re in Oak Cliff, Texas today at the Taste of Oak Cliff Festival. If you will please bear with us as it’s Cold, Windy and very noisy outside here, remember we’re no audio gurus but I promise we’ll be talking a lot about Operations and doing our best here as we’re walking around talking to the crowd! The Distribution Training Center invited...

Hello all, Marty here with Warehouse and Operations as a Career. I want to thank you for checking in with us today, and I think I’d like to talk a little about Ethics, maybe a little on Workplace Violence and our Reporting. Earlier this week I was talking with a gentleman that had just came out of his Companies yearly meeting on Business Ethics. Several of the larger facilities I deal with have th...

It’s Thursday again, I’m Marty and we’ve reached the last week of the 1st quarter. Time’s flying by and we’re having a blast talking about Operations each week with you, keep those questions, comments and topic suggestions coming in, we have a lot of fun putting each episode together with you. So, today let’s talk about some of those questions and topics here at Warehouse and Operations as a Caree...

Welcome to week 12 of 2018 and I guess we’re on episode 78 of Warehouse and Operations as a Career. It’s amazing how fast the years moving and shaking and coming together for us. As you may know, this first quarter I’ve been very fortunate to have met several new Associates, Leads, Sup’s and Managers and have had the opportunity to visit facilities in New Mexico, Pennsylvania, Arizona, Denver and...

Warehouse and Operations as a Career, Marty here with you again and WAOC’s been invited to attend a large job fair hosted by Belmar Integrated Logistics at their Garland Tx Recruiting Office and Training Center. We’re set up in the Training Center where they train and instruct their 29 CFR 1910.178 certifications and the OSHA 10hr and 30hr classes and several others, Belmar is truly committed to S...

And we’re back at it again, I hope you’re having a great week and having a good time living it! I’m Marty with Warehouse and Operations as a Career! Last week we talked a little about the positions of the Lead and the Supervisor. I’ve really enjoyed all the messages and questions that we’re sent in this week, and its so cool so many of us are interested in our jobs and where they can take us! A qu...

WAOC, or Warehouse and Operations as a Career here with ya, I hope you’ve had a great & Productive week out there. I’m in Denver Colorado this week checking on a few Facilities and enjoying looking at the mountains. I’m getting ready to go visit the second shift and thought we’d do a little recording while I wait for them to get started! You all know how I like the dictionary, and I’d like to give...