Leadership is often about making decisions before your options start to disappear. That idea shows up clearly in how organizations manage their workforce. And the fact is that the damage rarely stays “in the warehouse.” Bad inventory data turns into maintenance downtime, schedule slips, excess and obsolete inventory, write offs, shrink, and safety risk when the wrong part or wrong condition gets issued.

Article by Don Lee, Shanta Sloan, and Rosita Johnson Photo courtesy of Kent Savage “Project material staging” – I googled the term and almost every search result was over two years old. Of course Covid stopped or delayed most projects of any kind. Staging, sometimes also called pre-staging, parts and equipment is the last thing on most business’ minds these days. However, with supply chain disruptions becoming almost a norm in the past year and a half, staging is one of the b