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Toyota Kata: What If There Is No Takt Time?

The Lean Thinker

At KataCon 2020, Steve Medland posed a problem that comes up fairly often: The default Toyota Kata process analysis (“grasp the current condition”) involves determining takt times and cycle times for the process, and a lot of processes don’t have an obvious repeating cadence. First some background just to level-set everyone.

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Transportation Industry Braces for a Looming Transportation Capacity Crunch Crisis in 2017

GlobalTranz

Expected Transportation Capacity Issues. The concern and dialog about the transportation capacity issues for our country have bridged the past two decades and beyond. We have heard so much over the years about a coming capacity crunch crisis , many argue if crisis is the proper terminology. Wide shoulders.

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Global Logistics Market Analysis: 2022 Summer Edition

MTS Logistics

Last year was marked with capacity issues and high prices, but today, freight prices have decreased, while capacity has increased. Many of these large retailers have big wallets and volume, so in the future they will get the return on their investments by taking steps to secure capacity with carriers. Let’s not forget U.S.

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How IoT Brings Railway Efficiency to Dutch Rail Network

IoT World Today

Of course, you can build more tracks and there are places in the Netherlands where it would be easy to do this, but in areas like the Randstad conurbation, where extra capacity is needed most, it’s going to be difficult,” said Pier Eringa, CEO of ProRail in an article on the railway’s efforts to boost capacity and speed.

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REPOST: What Will Tomorrow’s Freight Broker Do with Ben Buchanan

The Logistics of Logistics

Of course, some of the industry leaders like Loadsmart are delivering these innovations today. Instantaneous freight quotes created by a dynamic pricing tool that delivers the right price with guaranteed capacity. In the interview, Ben describes 5 things that freight brokers will be expected to do in the very near future.

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What Will Tomorrow’s Freight Broker Do with Ben Buchanan

The Logistics of Logistics

Of course, some of the industry leaders like Loadsmart are delivering these innovations today. Instantaneous freight quotes created by a dynamic pricing tool that delivers the right price with guaranteed capacity. In the interview, Ben describes 5 things that freight brokers will be expected to do in the very near future.

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Decreasing deadheading in trucking: how carriers are turning to data to maximize assets

FreightWaves SONAR

Trucking capacity is tight, and deadheading is the precursor of even stricter capacity. Of course, carriers want their transportation networks to be as profitable as possible. An effective active routing program allows for the inclusion of data points and analysis to be factored in. Think about it.