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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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Reshoring Optimism, But Not Much Else

GlobalTranz

While the economy has added some jobs since its nadir in 2009, labor statistics show that employment growth since 2010 has matched, not outpaced, growth of the labor force. Yes, manufacturing jobs are up by 700,000 since 2010 , but there are still over 1 million fewer manufacturing jobs than there were in 2008.

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Molex Prizes Agility

Logistics Viewpoints

But Molex, a global electronics and connectivity solutions company, has been investing in their intelligent digital supply chain strategy to improve their supply chain agility and customer experience. The 2010 Eyjafjallajökull volcano eruptions in Iceland, for example, caused enormous disruption to air shipments across Western Europe.

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Online Marketplace Wars: How eBay is fighting back against mounting pressure from Amazon

Bringg

Thousands of third party sellers are on Amazon Marketplace, which accounted for 42% of the revenues from the company’s commerce arm in 2017, up from 24% in 2010, according to an estimate from Deloitte LLP. The bottom line is that eBay needs to rethink its strategy to remain relevant with both buyers and sellers. Last month, Amazon.com.au

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Walmart: 3 Keys to Successful Supply Chain Management any Business Can Follow

GlobalTranz

These are all examples of the effects production may have on the environment, in local communities, or on the people who grow and make what we sell.” Walmart has held a place among Gartner’s top 20 supply chains since 2010. .” Walmart states early on. Low prices benefit customers, but low true costs benefit everyone.”