Bryan Jensen has 32 years of experience in retail and wholesale distribution, transportation and logistics and is a vice president and principal with St. Onge Co. in York, Pa., assisting clients in increasing their competitive advantage through improvements in their supply chain practices. St. Onge Co. is a material handling and manufacturing consulting firm specializing in the planning, engineering and implementation of advanced material handling, information and control systems supporting logistics, manufacturing and distribution since 1983 (www.stonge.com). Contact Bryan at 717/840-8181 or by e-mail at bjensen@stonge.com.
Most of us have had conversations about operational performance benchmarking with our colleagues or have reviewed it within our industry with the hope of understanding how our operation performs.
How do you measure your key warehouse performance metrics? Are they accurate? Supply Chain expert Bryan Jensen provides a checklist to ensure that you don’t err when conducting those measurements.
I recently had a friendly conversation with Bryan Jensen, a principal with York, Pa.-based St. Onge Co. I regard Bryan as one of the most knowledgeable executives I’ve ever met on supply chain issues. Ever have that “flash of an idea” in a conversation? Of course you have.
Conventional, and most times correct, wisdom dictates that slotting a storage or pick area in a distribution center will yield increases in productivity and throughput. In a vast number of instances, it certainly does.
