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Sourcing Strategy: Effective vs Efficient with Ron Crabtree

The Logistics of Logistics

Ron Crabtree , CPIM, CIRM, CSCP, MLSSBB, SCOR-P is the founder and CEO (2002) of MetaOps , Inc. Based in Mattawan, MI, the company was founded in 2002. Example: A surgery center or aviation company will focus more on effectiveness, while a company selling high-volume novelty items will focus on efficiency. About Ron Crabtree.

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Boeing: The Turning Point(s)

The Lean Thinker

.” In the background, also in the early 90s, Boeing was beginning to experiment with things like 5S and “Accelerated Improvement Workshops” (AIW) (aka kaizen events). The structural designs were far more tolerant of production variation, for example. Most of these were small-scale tactical affairs.

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5 examples of the black swan theory

Logistics at MPEPS at UPV

Today we are going to find out what the black swan theory means, how it affects the economy and the society overall and several examples of how the black swan events have changed the words. Even though,the black swan events are often inappropriately rationalised after the fact with the benefit of hindsight.

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Supply Chain Data Visibility Paramount as Industry Lurches into Next Chapter

IoT World Today

If we’re going to be able to prepare for these types of events in future, we have to identify appropriate sources of information that we should focus on all the time — not just when [crisis] manifests,” said Randy Bradley, associate professor of information systems and supply chain management at the University of Tennessee.

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Analytics in Supply Chain Management Becomes Central As Coronavirus Escalates

IoT World Today

And while during the SARS epidemic of 2002 and 2003, China represented 4.3% In order to build a correct demand plan, one-off events have to be identified and accounted for,” wrote Ralf W. Tire companies, for example, now use sensor data to monitor tire pressure and proactively alert customers about maintenance.

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Logistics ‘unpreparedness’ and the International Forces East Timor mission in 1999 – strategic logistics and what went wrong

Logistics in War

Thomas Kane, in Military logistics and strategic performance, considered logistics to be a ‘slippery beast that can become important at many levels of an operation, sometimes as a cause of events and other times a consequence of them’. There is consensus that the ADF was unprepared for the operation.

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The debris of an organisation – thinking about how the ADF recovers from the first losses of war: Part One

Logistics in War

The first part of this paper applies examples to articulate concepts and ideas relevant to understanding the reality of war. It is necessary for us in the ADF to prepare for the confluence of events that inevitable occur over a longer term than we envisage. Martin van Creveld, writing about logistics, saw that ‘…. 7] Van Creveld, M.,