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Boeing: The Turning Point(s)

The Lean Thinker

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. The class wasn’t some secret management thing.

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Swinging into action – reflections on East Timor by a logistics Unit Commander Part Three

Logistics in War

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. I chose these because I was personally involved in each. Real-estate.

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How Supply Chain Strategy Misalignment is Killing Kmart USA

Logistics Bureau

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. Group Managing Director. Where Did Supply Chain Strategy Fall Down at Kmart? Did Kmart actually have a supply chain strategy?