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Boeing: The Turning Point(s)

The Lean Thinker

In the late 1980s and early 1990s Colin Fox, an early consultant in the world of flow production, had led a series of study missions to Japan that engaged Boeing’s top 100 or so leaders. These study missions were quite eye-opening for the participants. Most of these were small-scale tactical affairs.

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

Logistics in War

These views may be correct, but anecdotes are no replacement for the detailed study of what went wrong and – more importantly – why. Why, then, should we bother studying the logistics-related issues pertaining to operations in East Timor if such issues are to be expected?

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

Logistics in War

These views may be correct, but anecdotes are no replacement for the detailed study of what went wrong and – more importantly – why. Why, then, should we bother studying the logistics-related issues pertaining to operations in East Timor if such issues are to be expected?

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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% Another Statista study indicated that 44% of retailers expect delays and 40% expect inventory shortages given coronavirus disruptions on the supply chain. The good news about that is these were changes they were going to have to make in any event.”.

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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

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. One study of twentieth-century conflicts since 1939 found that the average time between the ‘first indication of war and the firing of the first shots has been 14.3 2] Babbage, R., ‘Ten

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How to Improve Manufacturing Floor Data Collection

GlobalTranz

A case study, published by Modern Machine Shop several years ago, caught our eye recently. Although it was published in 2002, the case study highlighted the data collection struggles of a particular manufacturing company that probably rings true for many SMEs and large corporations alike.

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Reflections on East Timor by a logistics unit commander – twenty years on

Logistics in War

At the operational and tactical level, East Timor may not be a great case study for combat arms officers however for the logistician [1] , there are lessons to be learned at every level from the Commander Joint Logistics down to the private soldier. If you feel I am wrong in any recollection of an issue or event, you may be right.