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Everybody Has Them

On May 21, 2013 · Leave a Comment · In Brian Mahoney

It sounds an old School­yard rid­dle: Every­body has them; nobody wants them; we all have to deal with them. What are they? For the sake of this note, let’s answer Cus­tomer Returns. Yeah, we all have them: from Live Refusals, to Credit Pick­ups, Prod­uct Recalls or “Just come and get it”, we all have goods […]

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Inventory Control Part 2

On May 21, 2013 · Leave a Comment · In Brian Mahoney

Prod­uct is ready to receive; it was packed and labeled by Man­u­fac­tur­ing, a Co-Packer, or a Ven­dor and it’s at the door, wait­ing. The next step is to match it against the Pur­chase Order and put it in a good Loca­tion, where you can eas­ily find it. The PO match is pretty straight­for­ward, after your […]

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Inventory Control

On May 21, 2013 · Leave a Comment · In Brian Mahoney

A smart man told me that the three most impor­tant ele­ments in Dis­tri­b­u­tion are Item, Quan­tity and Loca­tion. Every­thing else flows from there. He tells me that all the time; I’m a lit­tle slow. He’s right though, once you have a han­dle on the what, how many and where, you will have an effi­cient operation. […]

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The Invisible Man

On November 7, 2011 · Leave a Comment · In Brian Mahoney

With the last week’s Hal­loween movie fes­ti­vals, I was able to watch my old favorites: Drac­ula, Aliens, The Exor­cist. I even got to see, so to speak, The Invis­i­ble Man. I always get the chills watch­ing Claude Rains unwrap his ban­dages and dis­ap­pear. And I always enjoy the groans I get when I tell folks […]

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Product Tracking — It’s Our Problem

On October 10, 2011 · Leave a Comment · In Brian Mahoney

It used to be some­one else’s prob­lem: drug com­pa­nies with prod­uct tam­per­ing; tire mak­ers with shred­ding radi­als; toy dis­trib­u­tors with lead paint wor­ries. All bad, but not my prob­lem. Then it got closer to home: car seats and baby slings; flam­ing cir­cuit break­ers; tainted fruit and spinach. Sud­denly it is my prob­lem. And it could […]

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