How to Staff a Kitting or Sampling Campaign: Surge Labor for Short-Run Projects

A kitting run or sampling drop isn’t steady work, it’s a spike: tens or hundreds of thousands of units to assemble in a tight window with a date that won’t move, then it’s over. Staffing that like a permanent hire is too slow and too costly; staffing it badly misses the date. Here’s how to size the crew, ramp fast, protect quality, and scale back down cleanly.

Seasonal Workforce Planning: How to Staff Peak Before the Rush Hits

Peak season is predictable, the date, the volume, the labor it demands. Yet most warehouses treat seasonal staffing as an emergency every year: scrambling for bodies in October, overpaying for last-minute labor, training people the week volume lands. Planning ahead turns that fire drill into an advantage. Here’s how to forecast, source, and staff peak, then scale back down cleanly.