HeyJaredHandled It: The Supply Chain Podcast
The supply chain is more connected, automated, and data-driven than ever, yet most leaders still feel like they’re managing chaos instead of progress.Handled It: The Supply Chain Podcast confronts that complexity head-on.
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Your Team Isn't Slow. Your Technology Is (opens the original)
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Everybody is talking about the labor shortage. Almost nobody is asking the better question. In this episode of Handled It, Joe Perkins and Brent Hillabrand sit down with Eddie Lowry, Automation Systems Engineer at Carolina Handling, and Alex Haines, Head of Accounts at Toyota Automated Logistics, to make the case that most operations don't have a labor problem at all — they have a tooling problem. If your instinct when the numbers slip is to post another job ad, this conversation will challenge
Why Complexity Is Quietly Eating Your Margin (opens the original)
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Complexity doesn’t announce itself. It accumulates. One extra approval. One redundant system. One workaround that quietly becomes standard practice. Before long, the operation is slower, costlier, and more frustrating despite having more tools and processes than ever. In this POV episode of Handled It , Joe Perkins and Brent Hillabrand are joined by Ashley Watkins and Woody Paschal of Carolina Handling to unpack complexity as a hidden cost that rarely appears on a P&L but affects every line of i
The One Thing You Underfund That Controls Your Uptime (opens the original)
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Maintenance isn't a line item to cut when the month gets tight. It's the strategy that quietly decides your uptime, your costs, and your culture. In this episode of Handled It, Joe Perkins and Brent Hillabrand are joined by David Horak and Lauren Murphy to unpack the reactive maintenance trap: why operational disasters rarely start with a catastrophic failure, but with one PM that got pushed, and then another. From PM compliance and telematics to total cost of ownership and the partnership model
The Lean Habit That Separates Good Floors From Great Ones (opens the original)
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The daily huddle and the visual management board are two of the most powerful, and most consistently wasted, tools on any operations floor. In this episode of Handle It, Joe Perkins, Brent Hillabrand, Ryan Tiller, and Ashley Watkins break down what separates a 10-minute meeting that transforms a shift from a mandatory gathering everyone dreads and nobody acts on. From the football scoreboard analogy to why a board loses all its power the moment the data is wrong, the group gets specific on what
Why Misleading Metrics Are Killing Your Operation (opens the original)
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Not all KPIs tell the truth. In this episode of Handled It, Joe Perkins, Brent Hillabrand, and Justin sit down with Adam Flood, Executive Director of Supply Chain at Wellstar Health, to break down the metrics that feel right but lead operations in the wrong direction. From cost-per-pick and fleet utilization to fill rates and incentive pay structures, this conversation exposes how chasing the wrong numbers creates misalignment, gaming, and downstream damage to the customers you're trying to serv
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