And another weeks flown by, I\u2019m Marty T Hawkins with Warehouse and Operations as a Career. I appreciate you listening in again today! Over the last several weeks we\u2019ve been talking about the many different positions or tasks in the warehouse. I want to thank everyone for sharing their experiences with the group and sending in your questions, I\u2019ll make sure we get all those answered as soon as we can get to them. Last week we talked about the Putaway position so naturally I was leaning towards it\u2019s opposite or the Replenishment task today. We\u2019ve been talking about the Inbound jobs the last couple of episodes so replenishment will be a good segway into the Outbound shifts.
\nOk, the task of replenishment is another great opportunity with the forklift. It\u2019s an outbound task, meaning we\u2019re working with the shipping side. Order selectors, loaders, transportation. As we\u2019ve learned Inbound is all the Receiving and storage tasks and Outbound is the shipping positions. In the larger distribution facilities, our outbound jobs may be on the 2nd or 3rd shifts. I always enjoyed working the outbound jobs. You come in, you know the case counts and the number of loads and you can just get after it, wrap it up and go home. I always joked that when we leave after our shift there\u2019s nothing to carry home with us, nothing we have to worry about, or nothing was left undone until the next day. When that last door closed everything was done. There are no do overs on that shift, you learn early on not to have errors on the outbound side. Errors, there\u2019s a whole show on its own. Anyway, we\u2019ve been kind of walking through the task so let\u2019s start their as well for the replenishment task!
\nWe\u2019re going to arrive early, attendance is even more important on these shifts, we\u2019ve got product to ship and it\u2019ll take all of us to get it accomplished. So, we\u2019ll show up a little early, get dressed with any required PPE\u2019s or our personal protective equipment, punch in, ladies and gentlemen that\u2019s an important step, that\u2019s how we get paid. You can say that\u2019s really our first responsibility of the shift. We talked a few weeks ago about how hard it is for our Supervisors or the payroll department to fix our errors when it comes to missed or incorrect punches. Next, we\u2019ll probably head back to the equipment area and pick up our forklifts. Anyone want to guess what we should do next? I\u2019m sure we all said our pre-trip equipment report. With us all being experienced equipment operators, as typically the replenishment position is going to require that experience, we know it\u2019s the rule. We\u2019ve already learned about the 29cfr1910.178 standard here in the states and know that as equipment operators we\u2019re responsible for checking out all the safety aspects of our equipment before operating it. Now we\u2019re off to our Startup, pre-shift or Safety meeting so we can do a little stretching, get those muscles warmed up and the blood flowing a bit. This is where we\u2019ll probably talk about our case counts, maybe some people will get their aisle assignments and the Supervisor can share maybe last nights productivity and errors with us. As we\u2019ve learned the outbound or shipping shifts are generally going to be based on pure productivity and safety. A lot of equipment will be running around, people are going to be working, selecting, counting and replenishing just a few feet from each other. I typically find most positions can be paid out by the piece, or pallet, or even the load, depending on the task. I hope we never put productivity ahead of safety on any shift, but especially this one. We\u2019ll all need to work as a team to get the job done and all leave with out an incident!
\nAlright, from here we\u2019ll probably head to our aisles. Oh, one more thing about our startup meeting. Speak up and participate in\u2019em. Getting noticed by our management team is what we\u2019re after right? We want to be that person that\u2019s on their mind,