Actively disengaged

In today's economic climate all manner of companies are looking at ways to tighten their operations, or simply stated, do more with less. And in the industrial distribution sector where labor is a significant cost, less often means less people. And yet, Inbound Logistics reports that almost 20 percent of warehouse workers responding to a recent Gallup poll describe themselves as "actively disengaged" from their work. As many as half of those surveyed were doing just enough work to get by.

PathGuide Technologies' customer Omni Services is doing more with less by automating its warehouse. As a result, it has decreased total man hours by 18.5% (and lowered costs to pick/receive a line by 7%). Read more in the current issue of Progressive Distributor.