KANE’s new Chief Operating Officer is Patrick Coughlin, a 30+ year logistics industry veteran with a strong history of driving performance excellence in corporate logistics and 3PL environments. We recently sat down with Patrick to discuss ...
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Topics:
Supply Chain Challenges,
Logistics Labor Management,
Logistics Safety,
Ecommerce Fulfillment,
Truck Drivers
Every logistics operation will say safety programs are a priority. But many such claims are lip service only. Safety solutions, over and above OSHA-mandated programs, cost money – for training, equipment and software. Many companies struggl...
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Topics:
Supply Chain Challenges,
Logistics Labor Management,
Warehouse Operations,
Logistics Safety,
KANE Company News
The Ultimate Guide to Being a Great 3PL Customer
This quick-read eBook lists 12 best practices designed to elicit greatness from your 3PL.
Safety In Logistics Operations
4 strategies to turn safety from a compliance-driven chore to a profit-driving opportunity.
If you were contracting for home renovation work, you might deal with a single general contractor to coordinate the project. But you’d like to feel confident that the people actually laying the tile, putting up the drywall, and attaching th...
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Topics:
Logistics Labor Management,
Warehouse Operations,
3PL Outsourcing,
KANE Company News,
Ecommerce Fulfillment
Other than inventory, labor is your biggest warehousing expense. And that warehouse labor… well, it's costing you a lot more than you may think. According to salary.com, the average warehouse associate's salary is about $28,000. But many...
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Topics:
Consumer Goods Logistics,
Logistics Labor Management
There’s a talent gap in logistics today and companies are dealing with it in different ways. For KANE, that’s meant placing more emphasis than ever on hiring logistics workers from within. Recently, we caught up with KANE’s VP of Human Re...
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Topics:
Logistics Labor Management,
Warehouse Operations,
KANE Company News
KANE recently sponsored research that surveyed 250 logistics and supply chain executives on the subject of labor management strategies in the warehouse. Read the full report.
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Topics:
Logistics Labor Management
Warehouse productivity. Every warehousing operation on earth would like to be more productive, but too few actually invest the time to stop, retool and make it happen. Fortunately, there are relatively small things that just about every ope...
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Topics:
Supply Chain Challenges,
Logistics Labor Management,
Warehouse Operations
Drone deliveries? Driver-less trucks? While these “space-age” supply chain issues piqued our readers’ interest this past year, a review of KANE’s most popular blog posts revealed that people are still most interested in, well, people. Foll...
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Topics:
Supply Chain Challenges,
Logistics Labor Management,
Warehouse Operations