Category: how-to

Generational differences are increasingly shaping today’s workforce, as Gen Z joins the ranks and baby boomers retire at a rate of 10,000 per day in the U.S. Considering Gen Z preferences can help leaders build a more engaged and motivated team. These four lessons offer practical strategies to improve leadership, empower employees, and strengthen warehouse operations.

The holidays are approaching quickly. Mountain Leverage is here to help you prepare for peak season with a few tips and tricks informed by our decades of industry experience!

Grab a free copy of our FDA Food Safety Modernization Act Sect. 204 Readiness Checklist for Distributors to ensure you are FSMA compliant and watch our 30-minute webinar: “Breaking Down the FDA’s Food Safety Modernization Act and What It Means For You”

We’ve seen many of our voice customers wait and wonder for months, sometimes years, if there’s something holding their workers and workflow system back from being as efficient as possible. But it can be hard to know what to look for!

Consider the repetitive nature of your warehouse workers’ shifts: sign in to the voice system, do what the voice system says, sign out for the day… It’s easy to breeze through the motions. When basic disciplines are lost over time, not only does worker efficiency decline, but you can see a real financial impact for your business.

Explore the 4 myths that keep fulfillment and distribution operations from maximizing their progress towards these goals. The path to meeting your organization’s KPIs and solving your pain points is about to get a lot clearer!

Nobody wants to start their day with a call from IT, but not getting a call at all and finding out there’s a server problem impacting workflow is even worse. Having your server close to home is helpful for many reasons, but it can sometimes be a hassle as well. What should you do when you get that dreaded call from IT, or when something breaks?

Alexa, Siri, Cortana, and other personal voice assistants are mainstays of daily life. How can you indirectly leverage this to the benefit of your warehouse or distribution center?

If employee attrition is high, maybe the question to ask isn’t, “Why does no one want to work here?” A better question to ask in today’s challenged labor market is, “What can I do differently to attract and retain new workers?”

Whether they realize it or not, many warehouses lose significant amounts of money each year through uncaptured services, misplacing invoices, receiving chargebacks from unhappy customers, and wasting administrative time with manual data entry.

Voice-picking warehouses have a unique feature that reduces picking errors called check digits. How could check digits reduce errors in your warehouse or distribution center?

Mountain Leverage’s Listening Kit promotes faster training with our Hands-Free, Eyes-Free technology by allowing more people to listen to what the picker hears and says, so you can bring a whole team up to speed in less time.

Our first list was so popular that many people asked for more, and we are happy to deliver! Check out this list of under-rated actions that can really “move the needle” in your warehousing operations!

There are lots of articles with ideas and strategies on how to create a more efficient and profitable warehouse. In most cases the advice is solid, albeit typically predictable and redundant. So we created our own list of 27 warehouse efficiency tips that may not always make it onto the standard lists.

We break down and tackle the three primary areas within the warehouse where leadership teams can benefit from the creation of workflow resiliency.

Mountain Leverage has featured a geographically-distributed remote workforce for over a decade. In a recent company-wide survey, Mountain Leverage employees were asked to share their best tips and tricks to stay connected to one another and flourish while working remotely. Here are the top six answers:

We’ve seen volumes of articles and posts on “best practices” for hiring. However, in conversations over the past 5 quarters in the distribution space, we’ve seen three primary trends.

Recent increases in E-comm and B2C ordering patterns have put a spotlight on the impact that picking errors now present to operations managers.  At a minimum, the B2C shipper incurs a customer return with all the associated costs.  But all too frequently the single item mis-ship results in the loss of the next sale.