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The SourceDay Story with Tom Kieley

The Logistics of Logistics

Tom and his co-founder Clint McRee started SourceDay in 2015 to transform how manufacturers, distributors, and retailers collaborate with their suppliers in order to solve supply chain challenges they both faced early in their careers. On a personal level, Tom is a dad, lover of sports, and exercise fanatic.

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Overproduction vs. Fast Improvement Cycles

The Lean Thinker

“Small Changes” Doesn’t Mean “Slow Changes” No matter how good your solution or idea, it is just an academic exercise until it is anchored as the an organizational norm. Copyright © 2015, Mark Rosenthal. Small changes, applied smoothly and continuously become big changes very quickly.

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Quality Management Important for Warehouse Space

Logistics Business Magazine

Contrary to popular opinion the Standard is anything but a box-ticking exercise, especially in its 2015 reiteration. ISO9001:2015 provides a methodology to ensure that quality management is, and remains, fit for purpose, and is ‘owned’ not just by a QM team but by the whole organisation from the top down.

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This Week in Logistics News (June 22 – 28)

Logistics Viewpoints

billion in 2015. That included limited access to exercise facilities (42% of women, 30% of men), less access to safe parking (41% of women, 31% of men), and limited access to restrooms (39% of women, 23% of men). Tomé, the chief executive officer at UPS, in the release.

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Mike Rother: The Toyota Kata Practice Guide

The Lean Thinker

Until you have struggled as a learner to apply the Improvement Kata (using the Starter Kata) on a real problem (not just a classroom exercise) that affects the work of real people and the outcomes to real customers , please don’t just pick up the 5 Questions card and think you are a coach. Copyright © 2015, Mark Rosenthal.

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Hire payment in time charters: a condition or not – a legal perspective

Shipping and Freight Resource

Specifically, we will discuss the judgment by Popplewell J in Spar Shipping AS v Grand China Logistics Holding (Group) Co Ltd [2015] EWHC 718 (Comm) where it was held that payment of hire by the charterers was not a condition of NYPE 1993 charterparties. The shipowner is not required by the charterparty to withdraw vessels from the charterer.

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8 Reasons Why Your Business’ Success Depends Upon Your Supply Chain

Logistics Bureau

If your supply chain network design has not been under the microscope, and you care about business success, it’s probably time to consider the benefits of a design review and optimisation exercise. Mini Case Study: Whirlpool.