Warehouse and Operations as a Career

How’s everyone doing this week? Marty T Hawkins here with Warehouse and Operations as a Career where we talk about everything Operations, Warehousing and Transportation! Last week we talked a little about the importance of a few tools that are important to our safety and success. Today I thought we’d expand along the same line and discuss a few more tools we see every day but may not use as we nee...

Hello all, thanks for joining us here at Warehouse and Operations as a Career, I’m Marty and I thought we’d talk about a few things today that are sometimes overlooked, or maybe its just things we don’t realize are so important. First up I want to mention wheel chocks. If you’re not familiar with a wheel chock, or a big block of, how do I describe it, I guess most of them are shaped like a wedge,...

Welcome back to Warehouse and Operations as a Career, I’m Marty and here we are in week 2 of a new decade and part 2 of our New Year New Career series. Last week we talked about how much work it is to be looking for work. It can be frustrating and time consuming. A few of us put some thought into what we really wanted to be doing, where wanted to work, like geographically or what part of town we w...

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 space being built every year, and there’s no end in sight. Look around the room you’re in now! Everything you...

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 the next shift. Welcome back to Wareho...

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 off of course, but for example I know of several distribution centers that the order selectors will be off on Tu...

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 importance in the industry. That episode was called The Pallet, check it out if you’ve ever wondered why they are used...

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 with Warehouse and Operations as a Career. Now I’ve operated several scissor lifts and a couple of different Ariel lifts...

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 that on hold for a bit. Earlier this week I noticed several articles along the lines o...

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 or duties. You may not know it, but our facilities keep pretty accurate records regarding the maintenance performed o...

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 2 others grabbed an inventory control guy and shrink wrapped him to a support beam at the end of an aisle. We were...

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 into warehousing than that. Of course, a warehouse job can be, and for many people, it is just a paycheck. An...

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. If you're not familiar with the Warehousing Education Research Council I’d urge you to check th...

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 interaction and participation!. So I’m way behind getting a few listener questions answered, I thought I’...

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 we all just have to shake our heads, no manner how hard we try to understand something it seems to just not make sense. As you k...

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 with, capitalizing on our career goals. Something that came up this week was those...

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 and some great opportunities just then but let’s talk today abou...

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 2.2 million people and it rained 11 of those 24 days. Fair Park, where the State Fair is held sits on...

So, your warehouse is full! The warehouse manager is all over you, there having to work hard at replenishments 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 trying to bring in just one more trailer, saying just let me get one more load on the...

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! Another thing that seemed to run hot the last couple of weeks were frustration levels, and I hate this word,...

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 of young men and women, maybe get some questions answered and at the very least bring that Cultu...

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 Loader position. That’s the last physical position on the warehouse side so lets take a look at where those cases go...

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 Marty and I appreciate you listening in with us today. We grabbed the mob...

Have you ever heard that you only get one chance to make a first impression? I’m Marty T Hawkins and I’d like to thank you for checking in with us here at Warehouse and Operations as a Career! Whither you are a Supervisor or a lead, an Employee, Recruiter or an HR Generalist, maybe you’re in Benefits, we’re all some of the first people our new and existing associates see. We greet them, walk them...

Warehouse and Operations as a Career, I’m Marty and I appreciate you stopping in again today. As I was sitting down to record today, I noticed we’re on the 150th episode of WAOC, 150 weeks of doing the program. That caught my attention that we’re in week 32 of 2019, we only have 20 more weeks to wrap up our goals for the year! I’m pretty much on track myself, how’s yours coming along? Now’s the ti...