The Lean Thinker

JULY 2, 2024

With the justification aside, they next had us go through exercises calculating net present value and ROI for a hypothetical capital investment in tooling – as though a shop floor supervisor would do this at any point in the course of their job. But all of this was 2002. One of them was the Boeing 737 moving line.

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The Logistics of Logistics

MARCH 14, 2023

Government regulations like the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (SOX) put additional strain on companies to maintain stringent data and financial controls, and often include provisions on how data is maintained by outside vendors and service providers.

Compliance 195

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World Food Programme Logistics

JULY 13, 2020

Photo: WFP/Rajendra Rasaili Every day, Ashiki makes a point of getting in some exercise. This season, however, she is missing out on many seasonal fruits, including the big yellow mangoes from India, which under these circumstances are hard to find. Reading stories with her mum Padma in the courtyard.

Food and Agriculture 52

Food and Agriculture Exercises Study Maintainability 52

Logistics in War

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

When we returned to Australia, I tasked an officer (who did not deploy with us) to take our War Diary and write a Command Post Exercise using the Battalion Ops Log to build in the many Lower and Higher Control problems with which unit operations staff would have to deal. The proposal was denied.

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GlobalTranz

JUNE 22, 2016

Exercises to improve dribbling skills to imitate Curry’s will become common. The 2002 Oakland A’s, who set baseball’s record for longest winning streak with the sixth-lowest paid team in the major leagues, used new statistics to disrupt baseball and set the stage for data-driven revolutions in many sports.

Buyer Training 52

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Logistics Bureau

JULY 21, 2017

The two companies switched positions in 1991, an event which heralded the start of a decade-long decline for Kmart, which ended in bankruptcy in 2002 and led to a subsequent merger with Sears in 2004. This failure to align supply chain and business strategy was largely responsible for Kmart falling behind Wal-Mart in terms of sales revenue.

Cost Reduction 68

Cost Reduction Inventory Reduction Price Reduction Vendor Strategies 68