Business View Magazine | February 2019

124 cal plants to one.With everything being under one roof,we get the same efficiencies both on the inbound and the outbound, and we’re continuing to evolve the product location within the facility to drive greater efficiencies on the outbound picking and truck-loading process.” COE Distributing has also been on a hiring spree that began about a year ago.After being inter- viewed and reference-checked, job candidates are grouped into one of three categories: A Players, B Players, or C Players.A Players have the most poten- tial for high performance in their role while B and C Players may require more work to be successful. “One position was created, two were replaced, and we feel, very strongly, that we’ve put ourselves in a much better position by using a version of topgrad- ing, selecting candidates that best fit our culture