Tom Zosel Associates - Best Practices for Optimal Logistics Performance

Optimizing performance - TZA is a productivity improvement consultant specializing in supply chain management software areas such as strategic distribution planning, facility design and material handling engineering and transportation system design.

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Situational Leadership for Distribution

Situational Leadership for Distribution is a remarkable training workshop specifically designed for leaders in distribution operations. Upon completion of this course, supervisors and managers will adopt the right approach to raise the performance bar across their workforce.

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News


	May 6th, 2008

	Charles Zosel, Vice President of TZA Consulting will be speaking at the Chicago 2008 WERC annual conference.

	New Training Catalog
	TZA Training Expands Its Productivity Enhancement Course Offerings. New courses more than double the firm's offerings in instructor-led classroom training and live web cast sessions.

	March, 2008
	The Transportation Division of TZA Consulting, a leader in helping companies optimize their transportation operations, is offering companies free transportation strategy assessments.

	April, 2008
	TZA Consulting, a leader in helping companies optimize their warehouse and distribution operations, has introduced a cost-effective slotting solution comprised of software and engineering components

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Best Practices

Our experience across many industries enriches our Best Practices. We provide a fresh set of eyes to perform a holistic review of your operation and determine if you are fully leveraging your labor, equipment and technology assets.

If you feel that your operation is not efficient, there is too much labor, or you know there are improvement opportunities, but you just are not sure where to start, TZA can tap those opportunities for you.

	Review current procedures versus Best Practices. Based on methods that have proven to be successful in operations that are similar in nature to yours, we will develop recommendations for short and long term improvement.
	Engineered Labor Standards . We will create engineered standards specific to your operation so that you can have a fair and objective baseline to measure associate performance. Engineered standards also provide an excellent tool to communicate expectations to your associates.
	Labor Management Software . This is an essential tool for advanced labor management, since it provides you with real-time visibility to anticipate workload and staff operations accordingly. It also helps you identify individual performance and provides detailed reports focusing on productivity constraints, to help you drive true performance improvement.
	Change Strategy. Once the pain points and the recommended improvement initiatives have been identified, we will establish a roadmap for prioritized deployment and, where possible, qualified financial impact.
	Extended methods & procedures audit. Aside from your labor, we can also evaluate performance of your equipment and automation, including your WMS, your slotting applications, and all other systems that play an important role in your ability to get orders out of the door on time, all the time.

Stay one step ahead of your competition by taking your operations to the next level in performance.

Call TZA today to discuss how we can improve your distribution performance and resources utilization.

	Facility Design
	Material Handling Engineering
	Capacity Analysis
	Best Practices
	Slotting
	WMS Selection

Nestle USA partners with TZA to ensure maximum leverage of material handling and storage assets.

Improving Order Accuracy.

Information is key in reducing picking inaccuracies. Understand where your errors are coming from and what is causing them. All the ideas in this article have been used successfully across a wide variety of industries to increase outbound order accuracy without large capital outlays.

Warehouse Rennaissance.

Visual warehouse management is a lost art. Operations executives tend to get so caught up in technology that they overlook some of the common-sense solutions that allow for better visualization whether they are receiving, processing, picking, packing or shipping. In most cases, small changes go a long way.

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TZA is a logistics consultant company specializing in inventory management and transportation logistics management, helping companies in the supply chain improve productivity and develop more effective and profitable operations in their distribution and logistics centers.