http://www.mhia.org/rss/onthemhove MHIA.org On the Mhove en-us Copyright Material Handling Industry® 2007 10 Fri, 22 Aug 2008 12:20:59 GMT FALL 2008 Volume 9 /Issue 3 It wasn’t all that long ago that Mexico was considered to be a low-cost labor pool. Then all of a sudden, China happened. And for some time, few companies opted to manufacture in Mexico rather than China. That seemed fairly straightforward until a barrel of oil crashed th http://www.mhia.org/downloads/news/onthemove/otm_fall08.pdf Wed, 11 Jun 2008 12:43:35 GMT http://www.mhia.org/downloads/news/onthemove/otm_summer08.pdf Thu, 28 Feb 2008 18:28:00 GMT INSIDE SPRING 2008 Volume 9 /Issue 1 Green to Gold . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 Executive Viewpoint . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3 Resources for a New Year . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4 MH&L Education Corner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5 Economic Insights . . . . . . http://www.mhia.org/downloads/news/onthemove/otm_spring08.pdf Wed, 02 Jan 2008 14:32:46 GMT INSIDE WINTER 2008 Volume 8 /Issue 4 From Long Beach to the Mall – Distributing America’s Imports? . . . . . . . . .1 Executive Viewpoint . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3 Talk the Walk: A Parting Shot . . . . . . . . . . .4 CICMHE Corner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5 Mhind Twi http://www.mhia.org/downloads/news/onthemove/otm_winter07.pdf Wed, 12 Sep 2007 20:18:30 GMT INSIDE FALL 2007 Volume 8 /Issue 3 What Inventory? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 Executive Viewpoint . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3 It Takes a Community: First Ever Material Handling Logistics Summit . . . . . .4 CICMHE Corner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5 M http://www.mhia.org/downloads/news/onthemove/otm_fall07.pdf Thu, 28 Jun 2007 19:02:31 GMT INSIDE SUMMER 2007 Volume 8 /Issue 2 Make Your Chain Sustainable. . . . . . . . . . . .1 Executive Viewpoint . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3 Adding Value . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4 CICMHE Corner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5 Economic Insights . . . . http://www.mhia.org/downloads/news/onthemove/otm_summer07.pdf Thu, 29 Mar 2007 14:15:37 GMT INSIDE SPRING 2007 Volume 8 /Issue 1 Change is Good. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 Executive Viewpoint . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3 A Place for Everyone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4 Mhind Twister . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4 CICMHE Corner . http://www.mhia.org/downloads/news/onthemove/otm_spring07.pdf Mon, 15 Jan 2007 23:15:02 GMT WINTER 2007 Volume 7/Issue 4 INSIDE Continuity Insurance? You’re It. . . . . . . . . . .1 Executive Viewpoint . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3 Resources for the New Year . . . . . . . . . . . .4 CICMHE Corner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5 Mhind Twister . . . . . . . . . . . . http://www.mhia.org/downloads/news/onthemove/otm_winter06.pdf Tue, 12 Sep 2006 19:31:39 GMT FALL 2006 Volume 7/Issue 3 INSIDE The Lean Process and Its Impact on Manufacturing and Distribution . . . . . . . . .1 Executive Viewpoint . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3 In No Uncertain Terms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4 CICMHE Corner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5 Econ http://www.mhia.org/downloads/news/onthemove/otm_fall06.pdf Thu, 22 Jun 2006 14:34:30 GMT SUMMER 2006 Volume 7/Issue 2 INSIDE Distribution Churn Good For Material Handling & Logistics Industry . . . . . . . . . . .1 Executive Viewpoint . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3 Better Mousetraps. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4 CICMHE Corner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . http://www.mhia.org/downloads/news/onthemove/otm_summer06.pdf Wed, 08 Mar 2006 19:18:30 GMT SPRING 2006 Volume 7/Issue 1 INSIDE Don’t Let Supply Chain Disruptions Torpedo Shareholder Value and Profi tability . . . . . .1 Executive Viewpoint . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3 Board of Governors Announced . . . . . . . . .4 CICMHE Corner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5 Eco http://www.mhia.org/downloads/news/onthemove/otmspring2006.pdf Tue, 03 Jan 2006 15:02:55 GMT What used to be called a “necessary evil” and a “cost of doing business” is now an executive-level strategy for keeping and growing business. By Tom Andel Prime Choice Foods, manufacturers of Kosher organic tortilla chips, had an inventoor problem. Too much packaging was takiin up too much space in http://www.mhia.org/downloads/news/onthemove/otm_winter05.pdf Fri, 09 Sep 2005 12:57:16 GMT By Bernie Knill One place you’ll find them all: the supermarket. The apples and spinach are there in plain view for the shoppers. But the dockboard is out back, where shoppers don’t go. That’s the story of lowkeeye material handling logistics in the grocery indusstry Some of it is standard material http://www.mhia.org/downloads/news/onthemove/otm_fall05.pdf Wed, 22 Jun 2005 14:36:46 GMT RFID was a niche player until Wal-Mart and DoD came calling.Now it’s the “star” of the AIDC world.As in all things, the truth lies somewhere in between. By Ray Kulwiec Ray Kulwiec Associates Last year was the “year of RFID. With mandates for RFID tagging from Wal-Mart, the Department of Defense, and http://www.mhia.org/downloads/news/onthemove/otm_summer05.pdf Mon, 14 Mar 2005 16:06:42 GMT By Rhonda Keenum Looking for new sales opportunities? With at least 95 percent of the world’s consumers living outside the United States, companiie that don’t consider exporting cut themselves off from tremenndou market potential. Statistics further indicate that more than half of all exporting firm http://www.mhia.org/downloads/news/onthemove/otm_spring05.pdf Wed, 08 Dec 2004 17:58:54 GMT By George Schultz That ultimate logistics decision that many companies face – keep in-house or outsouurc – rides on business processes and profitability, but it affects a powerful lot more. Powerful, as in forklifts, conveyors, and other equipment, in whose facility, and having sound software techno http://www.mhia.org/downloads/news/onthemove/otm_winter04.pdf Wed, 08 Sep 2004 19:52:55 GMT By Bernie Knill You and I have bad vibes about hospitals and nursing homes, based on experience; we have visited friends or relatives in them. There’s not much in a hospital or nursing home that reminds us of material handling, aside from the omnipresent carts. But we tend to focus on the patient an http://www.mhia.org/downloads/news/onthemove/otm_fall04.pdf Mon, 14 Jun 2004 13:18:32 GMT By Ross Matthews Essential Editorial Wherever you are in the supply chain world, people want to talk about Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) Euroop has been working on the issue for some nine years now, which means there is a consideraabl amount of RFID experience on the east side of the Atlanti http://www.mhia.org/downloads/news/onthemove/otm_summer04.pdf Thu, 19 Feb 2004 18:58:54 GMT By John M. Hill ESYNC We have made the assumption that you are reading this article because, at least intuitively, you suspect that radio frequeenc identification (RFID) could make a substanntia contribution to your company’s operating performance – or, alternatively, that you’re facing an 8 (or few http://www.mhia.org/downloads/news/onthemove/otm_spring04.pdf Thu, 05 Feb 2004 14:50:10 GMT By Kathryn Kobe This past July, a committee of economists with the National Bureau of Economic Reseaarc determined that the recession ended in November 2001, eight months after its March 2001 start date. However, most manufacturers have had difficulty matching those boundary dates to their own exper http://www.mhia.org/downloads/news/onthemove/otm_winter2003.pdf Wed, 17 Dec 2003 13:12:26 GMT By Kathryn Kobe This past July, a committee of economists with the National Bureau of Economic Reseaarc determined that the recession ended in November 2001, eight months after its March 2001 start date. However, most manufacturers have had difficulty matching those boundary dates to their own exper http://www.mhia.org/downloads/news/onthemove/otm_winter03.pdf Wed, 10 Sep 2003 19:10:58 GMT By George Schultz Today’s collaborative strategies are execuute across enterpriise by timely data and rapid communications tools, but in logistics it’s not a call for all-new technology. A case in point: West Marine Inc. is a Californiabaase specialty merchandiser of boating supplies, with some 260 http://www.mhia.org/downloads/news/onthemove/otm_fall03.pdf Tue, 17 Jun 2003 18:54:42 GMT By Bernie Knill Doesn’t it bug you when writers or speakers – Alan Greenspan, chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, leads the pack – attribute most of the gains in productivity to computers, peripherals and software? Another example: Robert J. Gordoon a Northwestern University economist, is quoted http://www.mhia.org/downloads/news/onthemove/otm_summer03.pdf Wed, 23 Apr 2003 15:24:08 GMT 16 On The Mhove CALENDAR OF EVENTS “The more freight you manage, and the more carriie capacity you can apply to that, the more netwoork you can tie together to create ‘collaborative value’ Sutherland, who is senior vice president, calls Transplace “a transportation 3PL. As such, it doesn’t just boo http://www.mhia.org/downloads/news/onthemove/otm_spring03.pdf Fri, 04 Apr 2003 01:47:02 GMT Logistics operations gain enterprise recognition for their strategic potential. What is MH’s role? By George Schultz Isn’t it about time that logistics processes becoom truly competitive weapons in today’s manufactturin world? Too long have warehouse and distributtio practices, and transporttatio se http://www.mhia.org/downloads/news/onthemove/otmspring03.pdf Fri, 30 Aug 2002 13:28:22 GMT Today, justification criteria for equipment and systems should include benefits to the total supply chain, beyond those for an individual company or department.The top goal is ultimate customer satisfaction. But in a post-9/11 world, you also have to provide for security and continuity of the chain http://www.mhia.org/downloads/news/onthemove/otm_fall02.pdf Wed, 22 May 2002 12:33:16 GMT By Bernie Knill Replace that “should” with “how should, and this title becomes a more relevant question. The future of material handling is entwined with the progress of ergonomics. (Althooug it’s not the first question we think about when we wake up in the morning. In fact, during my visit to the 5 http://www.mhia.org/downloads/news/onthemove/otmsummer02.pdf Tue, 30 Apr 2002 19:35:18 GMT Supply chain performance measurement reflects the material handling component directly or indirectly.This overview describes several available tools or procedures to take your measure. By George Schultz Supply chains – denoting the series of physical and financial transactions that fulfill an order http://www.mhia.org/downloads/news/onthemove/otmspring02.pdf Wed, 05 Dec 2001 18:21:32 GMT Today, reverse logistics stands for much more than the handling of returns. It is a supply chain issue that includes the recycling, remanufacturing, and processing of used products, materials, and packaging to meet overall environmental needs. It can also offer added revenue opportunities. By Ray Ku http://www.mhia.org/downloads/news/onthemove/otmwinter02.pdf Mon, 27 Aug 2001 20:49:50 GMT By George Schultz Companies now can collaborate with supply chain partners via Internet links to develop, market, and ship products and to serve them in the aftermarket. Manufacturers “e-procure” supplies or components via public and private tradiin exchanges. Whole industries do it; witness the Cov http://www.mhia.org/downloads/news/onthemove/otmfall01.pdf