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Still Time to Register for the Warehousing Seminar

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The American Veterinary Distributors Association is offering a new seminar through its affiliation with the Pet Industry Distributors Association (PIDA). PIDA's 2003 warehousing seminar will offer veterinary product distributors and manufacturers practical advice on managing their warehouses. It is specifically aimed at anyone responsible for material movement, storage and safety in your warehouse. Warehouse managers, operations managers, general managers and facilities managers are prime candidates for this training.

When: Thursday, October 9, 2003 • 12 p.m. - 5 p.m.

Where: Hyatt Regency O'Hare • Rosemont, Illinois

Cost: AVDA members - $299 per person

(Registration fee includes seminar and handouts, lunch and refreshment break.)

Speaker: Gary Moore, President, Materials Handling Equipment Co.

Safety and Productivity in Material Handling and Warehousing

In many material handling and warehousing operations, safety is seen as being in opposition or tension against productivity. Actually, the key is to have safer and more productive operations.

This discussion will focus on key safety issues involving forklifts, the loading dock, pallet rack, overhead lifting and conveyor among other areas. It will review the importance of ergonomics in both safety and productivity - and as it relates to many aspects of material handling operations.

This presentation will end with 25 tips for improving safety and 25 tips for improving productivity in material handling and warehouse operations.

How to Store More in Less Space

Space utilization is an ever-important topic involving material handling and warehousing operations. Benefits of improving space utilization include better organized operations, less travel time, higher productivity, less facility and utility costs, better control of product and people.

In addition to outlining the benefits of space productivity, this presentation will explore specific techniques and equipment for improving space utilization in manufacturing, small parts storage, warehousing, pallet storage and forklift operations. 

Gary T. Moore, President

Materials Handling Equipment Company

Gary Moore entered the material handling industry as a marketing representative for the Allis Chalmers Lift Truck Company in 1971. In 1976, he became sales manager at one of the dealers on which he called - Materials Handling Equipment Company in Denver, Colo. In 1990, Gary was appointed president of Materials Handling Equipment Company and, in 1997, he purchased the company from the founding owners. Materials Handling Equipment Company is a full line material handling distributor serving Colorado, Wyoming and Nebraska.

Gary has been an active author, speaker and consultant in the material handling industry for many years. He designed and teaches Objective Based Selling, a sales model for the material handling industry. He also speaks regularly on issues of safety, productivity and space utilization in material handling and warehousing.

Gary served as president of the Material Handling Equipment Distributors Association in 1998. He has an engineering degree form General Motors Institute (now Kettering University) and an industrial administration degree form Krannert School of Business at Purdue University.