Company: A National Fortune 500 Retailer

Type of Project: Provide Labor study of Tri State Port Market.

Size: NY, NJ, PA and MD.

Location: Teterboro, NJ.

Objectives: Provide highly targeted labor data in specific industrial parks for use in a major site selection process. The results would recommend a decision supporting hundreds of jobs for decades into the future.

Results: Working in concert with the NJ Employers Association; the Northeast PA Employers Association; the Mid Atlantic Employers Association, and various Economic Development Councils, we partnered with Fairleigh Dickinson University's Public Mind Poll for this project. We spearheaded a study to ascertain labor rates for over a dozen selected job descriptions in the field of distribution. The phone and internet based study provided rates, quality scores, commute methods and patterns and multi-shift insights to running a DC from hundreds of participants.

The study was recognized regionally and presented in various high profile logistics forums including; the North America Purchasing Managers (NAPM); the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP); The Material Handlers Society of New Jersey (MHSNJ) and the Association for Operations Management (APICS).

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