HeyJaredJoe Perkins
- Indexed articles, last 90 days
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- Latest publication
- Sep 18, 2026
- Outlet visibility, for forbes.com
- Top 5K sites
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- Jul 15, 2026
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Lean Isn't Cost-Cutting—Here's What It's Actually About (opens the original)
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Joe Perkins is Chief Operating Officer of Carolina Handling, focused on leadership, empowering teams and optimizing operations. The philosophy of lean has had a major influence on the material handling and logistics sector for arguably over half a century. Certainly well before we were calling it “lean,” and possibly all the way back to Henry Ford’s success using the concept of continuous flow on production lines. Lean’s strength is in its simplicity: Minimize waste, maximize value to the cust
The Biggest Automation Mistake Material Handling Leaders Make (opens the original)
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Joe Perkins is Chief Operating Officer of Carolina Handling, focused on leadership, empowering teams, and optimizing operations. Leaders in material handling are under immense pressure to automate their businesses, but not necessarily for the reasons you might think. Regardless of the “why,” and despite its benefits and promises, automation carries serious risks for companies that already have their back to the wall. What’s really behind the push to go hands-off on as many processes as possible,
Intralogistics: The Missing Link In Supply Chain Performance (opens the original)
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Joe Perkins is Chief Operating Officer of Carolina Handling, focused on leadership, empowering teams, and optimizing operations. Most leaders understand that the supply chain is critical to their business. What gets less attention is what actually makes it work day to day. Behind every on-time delivery or missed shipment are internal processes that don’t always get looked at closely, even though they play a role in everything that happens. That’s where intralogistics comes into play. It’s been
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