Learn to Put Safety First in Your Warehouses with a Free Webinar

Learn to Put Safety First in Your Warehouses with a Free Webinar

by | Mar 26, 2020 | Warehouse Consulting

Do you have questions about keeping your employees safe and your warehouse productive in this uncertain time? Join Alpine’s Brenda Stoltz, an expert in strategic leadership, operations management and HR programs, for a WERC webinar, “Grow Your Safety Culture: How to Engage Warehouse Employees & Leaders” on Tuesday, March 31 at 2pm EST.

When it comes to safety in the warehouse, compliance is simply not enough. Rather, employees — and leadership — must be committed to not only keeping themselves safe, but also to ensuring the safety of those around them. Topics include best practices in structuring a team and techniques to gain support for, and increase interest in, safety.

Webinar participants also discover the benefits (both expected and unexpected) of a team dedicated to safety; techniques to get hourly employees to buy-in; and how to instill recommended routines that keep everyone informed and invested. Stoltz will also overview ways to establish peer-to-peer accountability — the single-most effective way to generate a safety-conscious culture.

Brenda will also share tips that leading companies are doing today to maintain operations, as well as to protect and communicate with employees and customers. She will share best practices and methods for facilities management, cleaning procedures, crisis planning and employee and customer communications.

Register here for this free webinar.

New HR Consulting Services: Optimize Your Warehouse Staffing

New HR Consulting Services: Optimize Your Warehouse Staffing

by | Feb 19, 2020 | HR Solutions

Are you concerned with attracting, hiring and retaining top talent to meet the current and future demands of your business? Are you having issues developing or understanding your current staffing metrics? Alpine is now offering HR consulting services to help your company.

Alpine is now offering HR consulting services to optimize your warehouse staffing, including employee relations, performance management, compliance, payroll, training and development, restructuring, workforce planning and change management. Our resident expert, Brenda Stoltz, brings a deep operational leadership background, including her most recent role heading up HR at Target Distribution.
Brenda is a Human Resources Leader and an experienced Operations Manager instilled with the practical knowledge of strategic leadership and management. She holds a strong sense of business objectives and strives to develop a positive culture that promotes constructive growth. As a dynamic leader with robust interpersonal skills, she holds experience in leading highly proficient teams comprising of HR Specialists, HR Business Partners, and operations managers.

Brenda aims to develop a healthy workspace environment that nurtures new talent and helps operational partners meet their goals. Ensuring high-end compliance and execution of work responsibilities, she excels in the areas of staffing, employee relations, performance management, payroll/compliance, and development, organizational restructuring, workforce planning, and change management.

Brenda’s greatest source of inspiration comes from witnessing the growth and development of team members & operations partners. She admires working with others and helping them identify, analyze, and solve complex business issues through strategic leadership and teamwork. Besides this, she is an outdoor enthusiast who loves spending time in the company of her husband and two wonderful toddler boys.

 
Let us know if we can perform an HR solutions best practices assessment for your company.
Alpine is Growing! Welcome Dave to Alpine’s Team

Alpine is Growing! Welcome Dave to Alpine’s Team

by | Jan 28, 2020 | Supply Chain Consulting

Alpine is growing! We are pleased to announce that Dave Kressin joined the Alpine team and will be supporting both the Supply Chain Strategy and Supply Chain Systems Practices. Dave Kressin is a very talented and driven supply chain leader with over 30 years of logistics industry experience, including a background of planning, designing, and product management for software companies. He can see the true potential of new processes, technology, and provide an ROI based on the strength of that knowledge. Dave’s experience as a software product manager combined with his vast operations experience is a unique skill set that will add value to our customer’s projects.

Dave is a very talented and driven supply chain leader with a proven track record of helping others recognize their potential for success and making it happen.  His strong expertise in managing distribution, procurement, accounting, transportation, technology, inventory production, inventory control, operations and safety projects in the Logistics industry gives him a strategic perspective of the business, their processes and best practices.  Dave’s professionalism, approachability, tenacity and positive attitude is contagious and affords him a reputation for cultivating high functioning teams that exceed their potential delivering projects on time and on budget.  His management style is based around mentorship and providing an understanding to both executives and line managers.

Dave’s 30+ years of experience includes planning, designing, and product management for software companies.  This combined with business analysis and implementation experience gives him a unique perspective of the industry.  This experience and knowledge allow him to assimilate new technology quickly and apply it to his projects. He can see the true potential of new processes, technology, and provide an ROI based on the strength of that knowledge.  He enjoys working in a fast-paced environment and excelling at unique challenges.  Dave is a true business partner and critical thinker that leads by example and makes the tough decisions.

New Face Can be Seen Around Alpine: Please Welcome Brenda

New Face Can be Seen Around Alpine: Please Welcome Brenda

by | Jan 28, 2020 | HR Solutions

Alpine is growing again! We are proud to welcome Brenda Stoltz as the leader of our new Human Resource Solutions Practice. With her operational leadership background and recent experience heading up HR at Target Distribution, Brenda brings real-world experience to the talent needs of warehouses. Ensuring high-end compliance and execution of work responsibilities, she excels in the areas of staffing, employee relations, performance management, payroll/compliance, training and development, organizational restructuring, workforce planning, and change management.

Brenda Stoltz is a Human Resources Leader and an experienced Operations Manager instilled with the practical knowledge of strategic leadership and management.  She holds a strong sense of business objectives and strives to develop a positive culture that promotes constructive growth. As a dynamic leader with robust interpersonal skills, she holds experience in leading highly proficient teams comprising of HR Specialists, HR Business Partners, and operations managers. She aims to develop a healthy workspace environment that nurtures new talent and helps operational partners meet their goals.

Brenda’s greatest source of inspiration comes from witnessing the growth and development of team members & operations partners. She admires working with others and helping them identify, analyze, and solve complex business issues through strategic leadership and teamwork. Besides this, she is an outdoor enthusiast who loves spending time in the company of her husband and two wonderful toddler boys.

Cost or Customer Service? Alpine Makes it so You Don’t Have to Choose

Cost or Customer Service? Alpine Makes it so You Don’t Have to Choose

by | Jan 16, 2020 | Supply Chain Consulting

To choose cost or customer service can be difficult. Alpine makes it so you don’t have to! Alpine Managing Principal, Michael Wohlwend, is featured in the current issue of Inbound Logistics in the “Good Question” section. When posed the question, “When choosing a logistics provider, what’s more important: cost or customer service?” Alpine makes it so you don’t have to choose. 
 
Michael responded “Why must you choose one?  Why not have both?”  Customer Service is vital in a partnership to ensure the right product gets to the right place, at the right time, and on value!  Today with the volatility of the order profile changing, and the new metric of next-day delivery, it is extremely important that you and your selected logistics provider perform a detailed design session to align on the key metrics of success, and on how when volumes go up, so does the price.”
More About Michael:

Managing Principal, Michael Wohlwend spent six years with SAP running the Mid-West Services business, where he was the executive sponsor on 3 SAP EWM installs. Michael also spent seven years with Manhattan Associates where he was involved in over 30+ installs. In addition, his responsibilities included RFID in a BOX. Prior to that as a member of consulting and software firms, he provided supply chain solutions for more than 30 top companies including Technicolor, Warner Brothers/Elektra/Atlantic, Sargento Foods, Johnsonville, IKON Office Solutions, Depuy, Schwarz Pharma, Long’s Drugs, Ross Stores, QVC, eLuxury, Alliance Beverage and Churchill Distributors.

In his 25 years of experience in the supply chain industry, Wohlwend has authored numerous articles for trade publications and has presented more than 70 seminars and speeches at key industry events. These events include National Conference of Operations & Fulfillment (NCOF), Warehouse Education Research Council (WERC), Council of Logistics Management (CLM), ScanTech, Distribution Computer Expo and ID Expo. He has been a board member of WERC since 2008 and Past President in 2014.