Once upon a time — 2006 to be exact — in a not far away land, Home Depot sold MRO products to the industrial and commercial markets. Top executives at Home Depot determined their strategy should be to focus on homeowners and home contractors, so they spun off MRO products into an entity dubbed HD Supply.

Retailers and the warehouses and distributors that support them know that empty shelves lead to lost sales. But, in any period of peak demand – whether in a crisis such as a pandemic, hurricane or other disaster – retailers’ shelves can become notoriously empty when logistical bottlenecks occur in the supply chain.

Lyneis and Boehlke named to key logistics/warehouse and general-management posts.