{"id":27257,"date":"2020-11-19T14:16:55","date_gmt":"2020-11-19T19:16:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stageres.blueridgeglobal.com\/?p=27257"},"modified":"2025-09-15T20:07:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T00:07:11","slug":"podcast-time-to-gut-check-your-distribution-facility-operations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blueridgeglobal.com\/webinars-podcasts\/podcast-time-to-gut-check-your-distribution-facility-operations\/","title":{"rendered":"PODCAST: Time to Gut-Check Your Distribution Facility Operations?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.buzzsprout.com\/921511\/6237823\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-27268\" src=\"https:\/\/blueridgeglobal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/radwell-1024x283.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"696\" height=\"192\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blueridgeglobal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/radwell-1024x283.png 1024w, https:\/\/blueridgeglobal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/radwell-300x83.png 300w, https:\/\/blueridgeglobal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/radwell-768x212.png 768w, https:\/\/blueridgeglobal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/radwell-1536x424.png 1536w, https:\/\/blueridgeglobal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/radwell.png 1676w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s getting harder &#8211; yet more critical &#8211; for distribution companies to be nimble and quick in their operations.<\/p>\n<p>Many are considering adding automation and next-gen solutions like robotics, autonomous sortation systems, and automatic storage and retrieval. Or in many cases, it&#8217;s just a matter of finding out whether you could still be effective with a smaller distribution facility.<\/p>\n<p>At any rate, now is the perfect time to gut-check your operations. What low-hanging-fruit moves could you make to increase the velocity of your distribution facility? This is particularly important if you have scale.<\/p>\n<p>So today&#8217;s topic&#8230; Is there value in a getting a Distribution Facility Operations Assessment?<\/p>\n<p>That question was explored in a recent episode of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.buzzsprout.com\/921511\/6237823\">Radwell&#8217;s Automation Nation<\/a> Podcast with guest <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcaassociates.com\/\"><strong>Howard Coleman of MCA Associates. <\/strong><\/a>Why not check it out on your drive home today? You will learn:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The main objectives of an assessment,<\/li>\n<li>What an assessment IS and what it ISN\u2019T,<\/li>\n<li>Practical and useful tips to review before taking action on an assessment<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There&#8217;s even a helpful offer to optimize your takeaways at the end of the podcast.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.buzzsprout.com\/921511\/6237823\">Listen Now<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s getting harder &#8211; yet more critical &#8211; for distribution companies to be nimble and quick in their operations. Many are considering adding automation and next-gen solutions like robotics, autonomous&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":27924,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[48,77,75],"scp_topic":[185],"sector":[179],"technology":[177],"class_list":{"0":"post-27257","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-webinars-podcasts","8":"tag-inventory-optimization","9":"tag-partnerships","10":"tag-support-services","11":"industry-generic","12":"scp_topic-generic","13":"sector-distribution","14":"technology-generic"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blueridgeglobal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blueridgeglobal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blueridgeglobal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueridgeglobal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueridgeglobal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27257"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blueridgeglobal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45125,"href":"https:\/\/blueridgeglobal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27257\/revisions\/45125"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueridgeglobal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blueridgeglobal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueridgeglobal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueridgeglobal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27257"},{"taxonomy":"scp_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueridgeglobal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/scp_topic?post=27257"},{"taxonomy":"sector","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueridgeglobal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sector?post=27257"},{"taxonomy":"technology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueridgeglobal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/technology?post=27257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}