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Distribution Strategy: Choosing a New DC
By: Jim Gitney
Unhappy with your current DC? Expanding to a new region?
Whatever your reason for wanting to open a new warehouse or distribution center, you know that the decision can’t be taken lightly… and 3PL providers don’t make it easy to do side-by-side comparisons of their services and prices. There is more to developing an analysis of the options than …Read More
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Distribution Cost Reduction in a 3PL Model
By: Jim Gitney
Are you getting all you can from your best 3PL Warehouse Provider?
If you are using more than one 3PL warehouse provider and each one is a standalone partner, you may have opportunities to simplify day-to-day operations and maintain or reduce your SG&A costs, even if you expand your distribution network. Let me tell you a quick story. …Read More
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Tecma Talk Podcast Focuses on Total Cost of Ownership and Other Global Manufacturing Trends
By: Admin
EL PASO, Texas, April 28, 2014 /NEWS – The Tecma Group of companies recently recorded a podcast with the Los Angeles-based CEO of Group 50 Consulting, Jim Gitney, regarding the growing interest in the global manufacturing trends of total cost of ownership and nearshoring. During the approximately thirty minute session, Gitney explains how the industrial site selection process is no longer an exercise in chasing low manufacturing wages around the globe in order to determine which country, or countries to produce goods in. He asserts …Read More
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