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The Improvement Kata and DMAIC

The Lean Thinker

T oyota Kata Culture by Gerd Aulinger and Mike Rother offers a good example of this. This example shows a hypothetical changeover time as the learner progresses through a few Target Conditions on their way to the ultimate 10 minute challenge. The outcome of my analysis is analogous to a Target Condition. The goal is the same.

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Cost to Serve Analysis—And the Costs of Neglecting It

Logistics Bureau

Have you conducted a cost-to-serve (CTS) analysis for your enterprise? And that is the sole purpose of cost-to-serve analysis. If you were going to say, “What is a cost-to-serve analysis?” Only a complete cost-to-serve analysis will expose these underlying issues unless they happen to be discovered incidentally.

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What are Reverse Logistics?

Logistics Bureau

Looking to real-life examples for inspiration, we can ask, ‘Who does reverse logistics well?’ For regulators and the public, reverse logistics may be judged by how safe and how green the process is, for example, recycling products instead of throwing them into a landfill. Persuade the customer otherwise.

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Build a Digital Playbook Beyond Scenarios to Thrive in Uncertainty

Logistics Viewpoints

The digital twin, for example, can be subjected to numerous stress tests that mimic real-world conditions and observe how different variables interact and impact the entire network. For example, the analysis from stress testing can reveal a particular supplier or production resource is a frequent point of failure under high-demand scenarios.

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Cost To Serve – A Smarter Way to Improved Supply Chain Profitability

Logistics Bureau

Too much leads to resources being monopolised on gathering tons of data and a subsequent risk of “paralysis by analysis” Cost to Serve (CTS) is an approach that helps you avoid both extremes. Besides optimising the present or fixing the past, CTS reporting and analysis opens the door to what-if scenarios and projections.

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Preparing for preparedness – how should we begin?

Logistics in War

Moreover, the attitude of commanders and leaders, logisticians and staff planners to comprehensively and critically assess the Defence organisation – a ‘blue force analysis’ – also influences the logistics system to function as intended. In Part One of this series asking the question, ‘how much readiness is enough?’

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Omnichannel Retail and the Cost to Serve Online Customers

Logistics Bureau

For example: Compared to selling a product in-store, the cost to deliver that same item as a small parcel can be several times higher. The above examples reflect costs that include picking, packing, and last-mile delivery. The list above is not exhaustive but merely provides some notable examples of cost drivers.