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6 Critical Success Factors in Distribution Network Design

Logistics Bureau

Quality and Detail of Data and its Analysis In some of our earlier posts, weve stressed the importance of simplicity in distribution network design , and we will return to that topic later in this article. Its worth remembering, for example, that secondary distribution tends to generate higher transportation costs than primary distribution.

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A Guide to Supply Chain Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)

Logistics Bureau

Still, in this article, I will help you evaluate the need for supply chain and logistics KPIs in your organisation, and identify which types of measurement might be most appropriate. Many people get confused about KPIs or Key Performance Indicators in Logistics and Supply Chain operations. Which ones to use?… … How many to use?

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A Lean Leadership Pocket Card

The Lean Thinker

The fundamentals are based on the “Rules-in-Use” from Decoding the DNA of the Toyota Production System , a landmark HBR article by Steve Spear and H. The article, in turn, summarizes (and slightly updates) Spear’s findings from his PhD work studying Toyota. It is the direction that matters, not the reminders.

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HBR: Managers Think They’re Good At Coaching. They’re Not.

The Lean Thinker

.” None of this, of course, had anything to do with what had triggered the tirade. example may have been a somewhat extreme case, a recent HBR article by Julia Milner and Trenton Milner titled Managers Think They’re Good at Coaching. As the organization matures, of course, that structure can shift.

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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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The Cancer of Fear

The Lean Thinker

This, of course, gets reflected in the conversations throughout the organization. If I type “how to lead with fear” into Google I get, not surprisingly, no hits that describe the importance of intimidation for a good leader – though there are clearly leaders (as my example above) who overtly say that intimidation is something they do.).

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The Value of a Little Bit of Information

The Lean Thinker

2 At some point, of course, you will likely bump into the threshold of knowledge for the entire organization – the point beyond which nobody really understands how it works. That being said, if your Google-Fu is good, you probably can leverage the information in this article into figuring out who it is.

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