The 8.5 percentage-point gap in cost increases between a best-performing and a poor-performing company is very significant. Through focused initiatives such as building data warehouses and using hard-dollar ROI calculations, best-performing companies lower cost trends, minimize employee absence and earn higher rates of employee satisfaction with their programs.
Quotes about warehouses (16 Quotes)
The port's success has allowed us to grow our business a lot in the last 10 years. Without the port, we wouldn't have a customer base to fill three cold-storage warehouses.
Few if any people would die right away. But the loss of power would have a cascading effect on all aspects of U.S. society. Communication would be largely impossible. Lack of refrigeration would leave food rotting in warehouses, exacerbated by a lack of transportation as those vehicles still working simply ran out of gas (which is pumped with electricity). The inability to sanitize and distribute water would quickly threaten public health, not to mention the safety of anyone in the path of the inevitable fires, which would rage unchecked. And as we have seen in areas of natural and other disasters, such circumstances often result in a fairly rapid breakdown of social order.
We had some roof damage in three warehouses, but moved the nearby coffee to dry areas in those buildings. We have no odors, no unusual humidity or toxicology problems, and suffered no losses in our seven coffee warehouses.
Research determined that businesses save money by operating warehouses in Southern California because it shortens lag time between when product is needed and when businesses get them. It's in the financial interest of companies to operate in the Inland Empire.
Many men are mere warehouses full of merchandise--the head, the heart, are stuffed with goods. . . . There are apartments in their souls which were once tenanted by taste, and love, and joy, and worship, but they are all deserted now, and the rooms a
The truth be told, wholesalers aren't even concerned about small wineries. They're worried about the Amazon.coms setting up centralized warehouses and selling alcoholic beverages.
High cash prices have led futures prices to rise, but the gains are overdone. Those who want to import may draw metal from warehouses in South Korea, which would only take a week to reach China.
The Levi's infrastructure is built to make large deliveries to warehouses or stores. It's a much different competency than delivering one pair of jeans to an individual.
Barnes Noble has been doing its own publishing with its own imprint for a few years now, reprinting classics for lower prices. When they were interested in buying Ingram, it wasn't just their warehouses they were looking at, but also their Lightning Print program, which is publishing on demand.
If companies like a Walgreen or a CVS would create a bigger Web site, it would motivate better online traffic, ... But the reason those companies don't create an online presence is that the cost of doing business by adding more warehouses and more shipping is too costly to run.
For the most part, bar codes are better at collecting data in highly structured and engineered processes, such as warehouses, and this will likely continue for the next five to seven years. However, RFID tags will be used for data collection of mobile assets and in largely chaotic or unstructured business processes, ranging from retail environments to hospitals, enabling these environments that lack sophisticated process engineering or controls to be systematically managed.
I completely disagree with him. It's more efficient for companies to operate warehouses here because it cuts lead time and errors.
We will put in place in warehouses throughout the affected areas and around the country supplies needed to shelter 500,000 people. We will pre-position meals prepared to eat for a million a day.
People have to realize there is a cost to the low prices at these big box stores like Wal-Mart. These chains get financial incentives to open stores and warehouses here, yet they feed their workers into Medicaid at taxpayers expense.
If I don't have room for an item, I put it in warehouses.