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The Rainmakers

DC Velocity

Take the six professionals selected as our 2025 Rainmakers, for example. In 2010, the 50 STA executives awarded me the J.R. In 1981, logistics/supply chain functions weren’t integrated; for example, purchasing didn’t talk to engineering. Some measure success by salaries and titles. Others use a different yardstick altogether.

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CONA Services Embraces Supply Chain AI

Logistics Viewpoints

In 2010, Coca-Cola acquired the North American operations of Coca-Cola Enterprises, the largest bottler in North America. The system can detect a deviation from a forecast, for example, and yet understand if the deviation is in an allowable range and that an alert does not have to be generated. However, unexpected events do happen.

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How Supply Chain Strategy Misalignment is Killing Kmart USA

Logistics Bureau

At the next Logistics Bureau Free Executive Breakfast (which will take place in August), I’ll be discussing the alignment of supply chain and business strategy along with eight other important levers for supply chain performance improvement. The Failing Kmart Business Strategy. The first Kmart store opened way back in 1962.

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Editor’s Choice: Tips for Trucking Companies to Decrease Their Insurance Premiums

Logistics Viewpoints

As an example, from data taken from the ATRI report, in 2020 a small fleet of fewer than 20 trucks would have paid about three times as much as a large fleet with more than 1,000 trucks. In 2010, the average-sized verdict for a crash involving a truck was $2.3 Agencies Advocate Tort Reform. By 2018, the average grew to $22.3

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Mike Rother: The Toyota Kata Practice Guide

The Lean Thinker

On the one hand, the practice has become more sophisticated as people explore and learn application in contexts other than the original industrial examples. That book provides working examples of vertical linkage between organizational strategy and shop floor improvement efforts. Study the Process’s Operating Patterns.

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If There’s a Manufacturing Skills Gap, How Do We Close It? 4 Ways to Combat the Gap

GlobalTranz

According to US News , fewer than 7 percent of all new jobs added to manufacturing since 2010, and some women working in lower paying positions already have the skills needed to move up the ladder in the industry. For example, parents may say, “You could become a lawyer or doctor.”

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The Impact of B2B E-Commerce on Manufacturers and Distributors.

GlobalTranz

percent from 2010 to 2011, and predictions estimate that business-to-business (B2B) sales resulting from e-commerce will make up the majority of sales by 2020, reports Four51. For example, a customer that can “chat” with a company representative online will benefit from that representative’s instant access to freight costs.