April 2008

Creating Selling Points for Projects
You Do That? Wildeck Mezzanines
Ergonomics Best Practices
Continuous Improvement Best Practices

Best Practices: Justifying Projects

Why You Need a Unique Selling Proposition. People are bombarded with messages all the time. You are competing with these messages as you prepare to describe the positive notions your project will deliver if adopted. If you can't cut through the clutter immediately to offer your decision-makers something that has obvious value to them, they'll be long gone to some other project that can.

Nowadays a lot of people have very short attention spans and even shorter memories, and they are jaded. You must make your unique selling proposition [USP] strong, simple, quick, and clear. If you don't have a strong USP and don't state it clearly right upfront, your audience may go elsewhere instead of drawing them deeper into your project.

Read how to create project selling points.

YOU DO THAT?

Wildeck Mezzanines Looking for a cost-effective way to expand storage capacity with growing your walls?

Now you can fully utilize existing overhead space and gain valuable working, office, storage or manufacturing areas at a lower cost than new construction. Also, you are able to put this space to work fast, with minimal interruption to your working floor area.

Wildeck custom-designed mezzanines assemble quickly with the simplicity of "erector set" construction to form rugged, high-load-bearing overhead levels. Heavy-duty columns provide rigid support, eliminating obstructing bracing and providing maximum flexibility of movement and utilization of the lower level.

Read more about mezzanine solutions.

Best Practices: Safety & Ergonomics

Ergonomics Best Practices High Location Ergonomic Storage. Picking product above the shoulder level.

This month's article will address how to safety retrieve ojects while reducing back strain.

Most goods in the warehouse are stored for a period of time. Racking is used to expand the amount of storage that is possible. Metal racks are used for storage and the area created within the racking is called a pick bin or slot. Slots range in size, depending on the products stored.

Learn more about these safety devices and how to obtain a free lifting guide.

Best Practices: Continuous Improvement

Where the Software Solutions Fit. To achieve specific improvements identified though the benchmarking activities and DMAIC process [discussed in previous articles], companies can leverage the traditional supply chain software that has been available for some time.

This software differs from the supply chain process management solutions in several important respects. While the newer supply chain solutions play a role in every step of the DMAIC process, the traditional software, such as supply chain planning and execution suites, focus largely on the model's improve and control components.

Further, these software packages can be implemented independently of one another.

Traditional software typically improves and controls supply chain performance on one of four key characteristics: average performance, variability in performance, synchronization, and responsiveness to change.

Discover how to determine continuous improvement software applicability.

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