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Walmart in a World on Fire

Logistics Viewpoints

One of the companies she holds up as a positive example of a big company addressing environmental, social, and governance (ESG) issues is Walmart. A few years ago, for example, my oldest child explained to me that Walmart was a malignant force. Walmart has been on an ESG journey since 2005.

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Climate Change and the Supply Chain

Logistics Viewpoints

These come from using gasoline for driving a car or coal for heating a building, for example. For example, the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) was signed into law a year ago this week. In 2005, the EU instituted a cap-and-trade system for businesses as a way to cut the emissions that drive climate change.

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“95 Thesis” on Kaizen Events and TPS

The Lean Thinker

These are some notes I wrote back in 2005 that I thought might be interesting here. The vast majority of our teaching should be experiential, and based in real-world situations, solving actual problems vs. examples and contrived exercises. Once again I am going through old files. Every tool, technique, etc.

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This Week in Logistics News (March 13 – 19)

Logistics Viewpoints

In April of 2005, just a month after completing my first half marathon (and vowing I would never run a full marathon in my life), I went to the finish line at the Boston Marathon and saw Team Hoyt for the first time. When I saw Team Hoyt cross the finish line in 2005, I turned to my now-wife and said “I want to run next year.”

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Energy Efficiency Is Key to Better Logistics

Material Handling and Logistics

For example, UPS is aiming to have 25% of its new vehicles run on alternative fuel or be an advanced technology vehicle, such as hybrid trucks that uses materials that improve fuel efficiency. That is part of an overall vehicle efficiency goal of a 50% reduction (from a 2005 baseline) by 2025. In the U.S.,

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What You Ought to Know About Fashion Logistics

Apparel Logistics

Globally integrated production systems, seasonal peaks and rapid changeovers from one collection to another are just a few examples why intelligent and flexible logistics solutions are so important to the fashion industry. The rapidly changing nature of fashion is best personified by celebrity-driven trends.

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3 Factors Affecting Growth of Automated Material Handling

GlobalTranz

The cost to purchase and start up an advanced robotic spot welder [for example] has plunged from $182,000 in 2005 to $133,000 in 2014, with the price forecast to drop another 22% by 2025,” reports BCG research cited in the article. and globally.