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3PL Kitting Services: Should they be a Marathon or Sprint?

Amware Logistics and Fulfillment

After all, he’s dominated the 100-meter sprint since 2008. However, if you answered Eliud Kiphoge, you’re also correct, because he’s the current world record holder in the marathon, an event Bolt wouldn’t be able to complete in, much less win. Who’s the world’s fastest runner? If you answered Usain Bolt, you’re right.

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A Lean Leadership Pocket Card

The Lean Thinker

It was our job to teach our continuous improvement people how to do that coaching and assisting – beyond just running kaizen events that implement tools. I talked about this in a post way back in 2008: Not Just Asking Why – Five Investigations. PDCA Thinking. Today we would use Toyota Kata to teach this. Four Rules: 1.

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Creating a Green Marine Supply Chain

Logistics Viewpoints

Plus, extreme weather events and changing storm patterns challenge seafaring vessels. To see these regulations through, the IMO is aiming to reduce total annual greenhouse emissions by 2050 by at least 50% compared to 2008 [4]. Apart from the environmental consequences of sea and air pollution, they also affect global trade.

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[INFOGRAPHIC] Attracting Millennials to Manufacturing: Understanding Millennial Experience in Order to Gain Talent

GlobalTranz

Millennials have witnessed countless layoffs, periods of market instability, offshoring of manufacturing entities , and other significant events in their lives. Unfortunately, these events lead to one common issue: millennials do not view the manufacturing industry as previous generations did. Economic Instability.

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WIT Honors Driver at the Richard Crane Memorial Truck Show

Women in Trucking

This year’s event took place September 15. Fran (Crane) Bernard and her brother, Rick Crane, have been the driving force behind this annual event which honors their father, Richard Crane, a former driver, truck owner and founder of the American Truck Driving Schools. Ignace, Michigan.

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Analysis: Why the Biden Administration is Not Being Honest About Supply Chain Issues

MTS Logistics

In politics, it can of course be necessary at times to portray events as relatively simple in order to reach a wider audience. However, despite showing the full dataset, it is not mentioned that the carriers were mainly taking losses between 2008 and 2020 (pre-Covid.). President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address last week.

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The History of the Shipping Container

Freightos

Did You Know That … Early examples of intermodal containers include railroads from 1830s (various sized containers), and Pennsylvania Railroad regular container service (1929). Significance. Small trucker, Malcom McLean, fumes at slow loading of cargo aboard ship – “There has to be a better way.”. 0 TEUs 0 meters long. Significance.