Are you a warehouse operations manager? Do you want to increase productivity and decrease operations costs? Warehouse management is very challenging and if you are looking to stay on the cutting edge of this industry your labor management is one of the most important roles in you warehouse operations. There are many ways to micromanage your warehouse to get the most out of it and bottom line increase your bonus and maintain rapport with your superiors. Do you want to be the leader of your warehouse and set examples for corporate to follow? Well you can if you stay focused and handle the responsibilities with the knowledge that you have learned and most important applied and be able to make changes with the new age of time. You can cut down on you hours by using temp agencies and lumper services to do duties where you own employees would cost more. Let me show you how to save money by utilizing a 3rd party lumper service or temp agency specializing in warehouse labor.

First and foremost overtime is always a big issue. By watching your overtime hours you can stay within budget. A secret that many large companies do it they use temp agencies to handle there normal employees duties before they reach overtime hours. This benefits by keeping overtime to a minimum and still being able to get the job done. By scheduling your hours around your lumper’s service hours or warehouse temp agency specialists and having them on site this can be a smooth operation and save you a ton of time and money.

Second as a warehouse most corporations don’t pay on productivity. By having a 3rd party company handling unloading, lumper services, inbound or outbound freight management you can get the most for your labor hours. 3rd party labor companies are taking over the warehouse labor management arena as they produce by paying their employees on productivity and cutting cost to a minimum. Some times this is hard to grasp as more companies are use the formal old approach of using their own employees but as times are changing many fortune 500 companies are embracing the changing face of the warehouse workforce.

Finally warehouses can have huge savings for not having to pay benefits, insurance, and other premiums that come along with using your own workforce. By using the ultimate leverage by having 3rd party companies on your side you can protect yourself in shortages of employees but also in case of a strike or walkout which could be devastating to your warehouse protect yourself. With benefits and insurance premiums on a rise it is becoming very hard to keep margins low and compete in a global workplace with companies that have more technology or leverage in the warehousing industry. Ever buck counts and by using the synergy of having 3rd party professionals backing you it makes your job so much easier.

When it is all said and done warehouse managers can have a huge benefit by teaming with lumper services and warehouse temp labor specialists to provide support and long term savings.

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About an entire local music industry that’s rarely heard from, briefly navigated by a remote being that coalesces, rarely, around music scenes and their absurd atrocities; originally written for “The Stranger” youth music and arts weekly newspaper of Seattle, WA.

Sonny Chelf is the orneriest house party producer I know who hails from Tacoma. In fact, he’s the only such producer I know from Tacoma. Most of those kinds of guys hang about the Seattle area, drifting back and forth in their musical skeins and ongoing search for monetary angles.

Jason Alley’s from Issaquah. They both operate forklifts in warehouses for their real livings. And I met them over coffee awhile ago at Starbucks on Broadway for a happy, peppy interview with two of the greater Seattle area’s own warehouse party producers.

Sonny, casual, relaxed and vivacious, wore “Portuguese” golden earrings; Jason, soft-spoken and shy, wore a diamond-blue ball cap over his sweet blue eyes and blond hair. Sonny is fair and Black, but doesn’t sound that way until you press him, and then a trickle of southern Blacklish begins to filter in, conversationally speaking.

How long have you been involved in the warehouse game, I suddenly ask.

Sonny: The first part of this took place in 1981. That was in Germany. Parties in Germany used more hype. Parties here seem to be more about money and competition.

Jason: I joined TUF Productions for the last party. I joined with another party than ours…some producers have a different agenda than others…(indicating Sonny, giggling.)

What is your agenda? I asked the cute black dude.

Sonny: First we sit there and have a headache. Nah, usually I like to find a space first. That’s kind of a last minute thing you have to do.

Jason: There’s been a lot of problems with the city. The city is pushing hard to shut the shows down.

Sonny: There was a battle over permits being in order.

Jason: The city would threaten to take the house over.

Sonny: Yeah.

Jason: The city would intimate that a party would be through. The owners of the building would refuse to rent to those who produced shows, for fear their properties would have police action taken against them.

These statements led to general murmurings amongst us.

So, whatever is your “agenda” now, I softly inquired.

Sonny: (About) the agenda? Line up the DJs!!! They come from everywhere, basically. When we produce a flyer, we try to promote it (the party) day in and day out. During that time, we finish producing the rest of the show. Lights, sound, security, permits, “etcetera.” And then it’s showtime! I like to get in a building at noon, but it never happens. Just to fine-tune the building! (He laughed, sliding slowly backwards in his seat.)

Jason: If we have decorations, some people put up fences. (I never found out what “fences” are.) It needs all completed. The sound system usually arrives in the middle of things.

We joked around about the house movement….”Yeah, the houses are moving!!!” as I’m not much of a raver m’self, yet. The joints do indeed jump.

What message to others, anyway, do you guys have to impart?

Jason: Positive energy.

Sonny: Peace, love, joining one another together. But after the party comes the teardown. I hate it, but it has to be done.

I asked Sonny if that’s his real name. Yes, it is. He was wearing a hunting cap, Polynesian earrings, and he vaguely resembled a certain letter of the alphabet due to his glasses.

Jason’s blue ball cap was fastidiously reversed. Two more either-bread and mayonnaise guys could not be found, but they were definitely having to skirt the law.

I finally found out what happened last spring, which had been the current House Party Mystery Scenario.

Sonny: A dividing of the whole scene here occurred. There were occurrences of two parties being thrown on the same night. Something had to stop. Seattle’s not that big. It’s not that good here, we need more party room. Evolution (back in October, and partially run by a close relative of mine named Joachim, incidentally) just had 1500 people. It was over 15, really.

Jason: We had over 1200. But Seattle is not really a good indicator. In LA (what doesn’t begin, end, and stall out in LA?) they have BIG huge parties, with a couple hundred thousand people, easily.

A couple…what? I stupifiedly intoned, slurping my Starbucks. That couldn’t be real, I thought, they’d need a football stadium…which they have, somewhere.

I dreamed to myself, the party interview vortex has been reentered. I’ve been being told that everyone and no one ever interviews these warehouse party guys. Now I see why. No one ever believes them when they talk about the party sizes.

Sonny then said he begged in on things with Jason through a mutual friend of theirs named Tim. On Tim, Sonny said, “we’ve talked to Tim. How’re you?” This, referring to my earlier interview more on the Seattle end of things, with Joachim. Tim, there, is not a part of the company anymore. I guess that’s the party vortex for you.

Sonny next managed to imitate the world’s blandest, meekest expression, which was already on Jason’s wan, pink face.

Jason: All I have to say is we hope people keep supporting the shows.

Sonny: I’m the quiet person of all this. I like to come in like the wind and leave…like…the wind….

Jason: I like to be around the people. I like to be around the friends. (I always got the impression this is a tightly-knit, hard-to-enter crowd. But I asked them about making a living at it.)

Sonny: I like to be around this for the money. If I didn’t do this for the money, I wouldn’t do it.

It feels like I’ve learned, after several interviews with Seattle/Tacoma’s warehouse partying folks, that there’s no money in this, really. Off the last shows, they don’t seem to have made a dime.

PeaceFrog’s Civilization party in November barely broke even, in fact losing at least $ 200. One of the PeaceFrog producers told me only about half the people coming in even paid. I don’t think Joachim got his cut at all. But their group is still plugging away at making the lively, eventful, and appreciably loud parties continue to happen.

Sonny said, the way I feel…it might make the WRONG money…(I think he meant the probably drug revenues from hangers-on selling at the parties.) Me, I broke in with: But, what if you were, say, normal?

Jason: Good point.

Sonny: What if everybody else was like what’s on the street, already there. (Recall that Sonny’s Black, please.) You’re gonna get ‘em “thowed in jay-al.” I’ve done two (parties) in Tacoma (an infamously Black establishment, in some ways.) There’s a problem with that. Seattle people don’t travel. The Dome is too commercial. This isn’t…a commercial event…that I do.

Go to shows, Sonny said. I have a real job. I work, in a warehouse, driving forklifts. I’m a laborer. Saturday nights are my date. That’s the party date. (He pretty much implied this is his social life. I am forced to think both Sonny and Jason are house-devoted, maximally.)

After this pleasant, caring interview time was spent, one happy writer left those two fine, unrude, music-bestrewed dudes to hit their next appointment in town. The memory lingers, but the music is fortunately elsewhere, waiting for the next party to begin. From the sound of things, I would suggest checking out LA, if I were you.

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Some ways to use warehouse clubs to put more money in your pocket through hard periods and good ones

Warehouse clubs can be great for keeping supplies on staples you use often, and shopping for groceries at these clubs is a time-saver.  Instead of rushing to do groceries once a week, you can stock up once a month or less, taking advantage of large-size packages and saving time to do other things.  Also, warehouse clubs can help make sure that running low rarely happens and that you’ll always have plenty of what you need to cook supper on hand.

There are many benefits to Warehouse Clubs. Large families that consume vast quantities of meat, or need a quart of spaghetti sauce instead of a few ounces, will find cheaper options at these clubs. Also, these clubs have party trays, appetizers, and large portion entrees already made for parties, so you can save some time when you are in a hurry.

There are three main warehouse clubs that are widely known throughout the country. Sam’s Club is the most widely known in the country. Sam’s has 540 stores in 48 states. The Sam’s Club membership is $ 35 and up for the year depending on which package you choose. Needless to say Sams (and WalMart) have been the subject of quite a bit of heated controversy. On the one hand they offer significant savings for many types of businesses and on the other hand they are sometimes a threat to businesses.

Costco, a chain with 452 stores in 36 states, is known more for its’ food selection than the other clubs. Costco has a wide selection of meats and gourmet desserts that you can’t find at the competing stores, and their annual membership is $ 35, which is cheaper than all of their competitors. The other warehouse club that ranks high on everyone’s list is BJ’s Club, but you will only find one of their 154 locations in the Northeast. Their membership fee is $ 40 a year, but you can also find great deals on televisions and cashmere sweaters for gifts.

There have been dangers that are associated with warehouse clubs. For instance, a woman in Cincinnati suffered severe head and neck injuries in 2001 when 5-35lbs bags of kitty litter fell from a top shelf and hit her in the head. Another woman barely escaped a sofa falling on top of her in a Sam’s Club. Not to say that it is hazardous to shop in these places, but you should be aware that items (often oversized) are placed high in order to create more space for the isles.

There are some inconveniences to shopping at warehouse or club stores.  There’ll usually be long line ups, especially on weekends, so if you’re the impatient type or really need to be somewhere else, avoid shopping at warehouse stores.  Also, if you hate packing your groceries in strange-sized empty boxes, keep in mind that warehouse stores don’t usually offer bags for packing your groceries at all.  Most warehouse stores don’t accept credit cards either, and you’ll need to use a debit card or provide a check for payment of your items.  Give the store you’re thinking of signing up with a call to ask about their particular policies.

There are some families and people who end up being the type that don’t use their memberships.  Most of the time, shopping in bulk is a habit one grows into.  Also, people who buy in bulk need to make sure they have storage space available.  Some individuals think that buying in bulk is only for big families, not single people, but that idea isn’t really true.  While single people or childless couples may not use up tons of ground beef every week, certain items such as paper towels or soap still can be cheaper and more convenient than buying elsewhere.

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