You know I was wondering myself what on earth happened to monster.com a few years ago. They used to be a major company with commercials all the time, everywhere, I'm sure the #1 job searching site but now its a joke. In my opinion, its horrible to view and get your eyes and mind off of all of the advertisements and clutter they have. I find by far now the best two job search engines are meta search engines-indeed.com and simplyhired.com. Theres still too much junk on the site for me but a lot easier to use and theres a ton more jobs available...not even close to monster any more. I've looked but haven't found a forum on any of these major job search engines yet.
If you’re looking to move to the SE N.H. area Amazon has a fulfillment center (Amazonspeak for distribution center) in the Nashua area and they call it Bos1 (for the Boston area-just like the two facilities I work at are Ind1 and Ind2 near Indy, In.) From what I know they have two kinds of facilities-sort, for smaller products and non-sort for bigger products (like tv monitors, skis, diapers, etc) and I'm not sure what the Bos-1 site is but you might want to look into applying there for an Operations or Senior Operations Manager position..it sounds like you have the experience for it.
I guess with the company you are at now and the W.M.S. system you’re looking into-what products or options are you looking into? Ive read a little into SAP's ERP (enterprise resource planning) and that seems to be able to encompass nearly everything a senior level manager could want and I think you can integrate WMS in it. My only experience with WMS was tracking product/order through our D.C. system from receiving, R.F, scanning, any testing that might go on with it, storage, and shipping but it was cool to use. ERP from what I know can do it all from the perspective I was at-regular employee, trainer, and fill-in lead. It can assign or recommend tasks to workers, record data and offer graphs and charts for analytics, and has modules for engineering, production, H.R., purchasing, and every department you can think of. I’ve heard Oracle offers an ERP software package but SAP, a German company, looks like it has the best ERP package out there.
Since I’ve worked at all major fortune 500 companies (and the govt) at a low level I really don’t have experience with the finance or sales side of things or even capacity planning/demand management that a G.M. would. I just see things at the lower levels and have a million ideas for possible improvement that will never get heard-even simple things like work more in tune with product manufacturers, trucking companies, suppliers, etc to make sure they are all on the same wavelength and all working to grow help your company as well as themselves. The book I read a while back that kickstarted me reading up more on ops management was a business novel called “The Goal” by Elijahu Goldratt who brought up the idea of the Theory of Contraints, managing bottlenecks in any business operation as well as using logical trees to uncover problems not seen by most managers.
Mark