A variety of changes, including more dynamic production schedules, increased use of temporary labor, and growing offshore competiton, have made optimizing factory labor schedules more important than ever. But few companies do it really well, given the challenges of doing manually managing daily schedules.

Dan Gilmore, editor of Supply Chain Digest, and Gregory Flessas, president of ScheduleSoft, discuss the challenges of optimizing factory labor, and how labor optimization can ensure you get the right product at the right place at the right time and the right cost - and maybe even keep your plant viable versus the outsource alternative.

We explore this and other issues in this excellent video discussion.

Only from the Supply Chain Television Channel.

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