What is an Opportunity
b'Anyone every felt like they\\u2019ve missed an opportunity? Anyone ever realized they did miss an opportunity? I think more often than not we only feel like that or notice it after the fact! Welcome back to Warehouse and Operations as a Career, I\\u2019m Marty, lets talk about opportunities for a minute today. Not necessarily missed opportunities, what\\u2019d you call it, let\\u2019s say recognizing an opportunity, I think. Maybe I\\u2019ve been thinking about opportunities all day because I\\u2019ve been with Recruiters and candidates all week. I really enjoy the whole recruiting process, and I so enjoy getting to visit with all the applicants, hearing about their work experiences, their goals and how their planning on reaching them, or, in some cases helping them realize they need that plan. Anyway, I wanted to talk about WMS or our warehouse management systems today and while I was putting those thoughts together, I realized a good WMS, or really any management system will provide us with so many opportunities and we\\u2019re probably going to miss them. I realized, and I think it just hit me today, that anytime we\\u2019re learning something new, something we\\u2019ve never done before or performing a task differently than we did in the past, we\\u2019re being led right into a new opportunity! What we do with it will depend on how we react to it. This morning when I woke up, I\\u2019m one of those really early risers, I got to learn something before I get my day started. So, I was checking Flipboard on the phone, just checking out a few articles and noticed a daily reminder from Cindy B Brown of the Unlocking the secret to living rich podcast. She has this little daily reminder thing she post each day, anyway, todays were a little .gif that said You must make a Choice to take a Chance or your life will never Change. With me working with so many job seekers this week it got me to thinking about it. Seeking employment, isn\\u2019t that what we\\u2019re doing, making a choice, taking a chance to change right? So, before I stray to far off subject, lets talk about the opportunities a WMS can bring us. Wither we\\u2019re an order selector, fork driver, sanitation or General Labor or Utility person, shoot, any position in the warehouse, a WMS system is going to change something about our job! The old way of doing something was set up by someone else, I guess it worked great because we\\u2019ve always done it that way! But now, with other things changing all around us, we can have the opportunity to do it differently or do something else entirely!
\\nI set in on an interview this week, the applicant had applied for a reach lift position with a company about 13 miles from where he stayed. The recruiter felt like, because of the traffic, that might be a little far for him to drive for a job. The gentleman was working for a company like 10 miles from his house, but all the traffic was going the other way. When I\\u2019d heard about his experience, and he was really an experienced lift driver, I asked him why he\\u2019d left his old position? He replied that the company was installing a WMS system and we all know how they mess everything up! Now, he\\u2019d been with his present company for 6 years. I asked him where had he worked before that used a system and what kind was it, directed, inventory, RF driven, how computer driven was it? He replied he\\u2019d never worked with one. I asked him why did he think they were a bad thing then, where\\u2019d you hear all the negative things about them? The answer was that everything worked fine like it was, it was only going to slow him down, all that scanning and stuff, and I\\u2019m paid an incentive by the pallet, I have to keep moving! So, I told them I wasn\\u2019t going to do it. Even after I explained that in my experience a good WMS has always increased our productivity and shared how I\\u2019ve always found them to be a positive thing, he had no interest in listening. And that\\u2019s perfectly fine, for a little longer, until every warehouse is connected and directed. Anyway,'