The Lean Thinker

JULY 2, 2024

With the justification aside, they next had us go through exercises calculating net present value and ROI for a hypothetical capital investment in tooling – as though a shop floor supervisor would do this at any point in the course of their job. The structural designs were far more tolerant of production variation, for example.

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Logistics Bureau

JANUARY 2, 2025

These days we’ve got much better tools for the job, but the goal’s still the same: getting your deliveries to the right place, at the right time, without driving your costs through the roof or running your drivers into the ground. This application included automated load and route planning processes.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Technology advancements in hardware, cloud, and in-memory computing fueled this increase, followed by the boost from automation, machine learning, and AI. There is limited value to running an outdated process faster, and that value drops considerably when significant portions of the process run outside the enterprise tools.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Rockwell Automation hosted its user conference, Automation Fair , in Boston, MA during the week of November 6. Many of my ARC Advisory Group colleagues were in attendance due to our company’s strong focus on manufacturing automation. However, it was a different experience for me due to my focus on logistics technologies.

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 12, 2023

In response, most companies are investing in warehouse automation and robotics. Businesses would like to make the most of their investments in warehouse automation, but they’re not sure how to do that. Let’s look at the example of an order that needs to go out by 5:00 pm, when FedEx or UPS is making a pickup. The result?

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The Lean Thinker

DECEMBER 9, 2022

When “trams” (coal carts) were in short supply, for example, the “trammers” would horde carts to optimize their team’s performance at the expense of other teams being limited by the number of carts available. A classic example of this is a heijunka or load-leveling box. On the Shop Floor.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 1, 2024

In the more manual part of a warehouse, WMS waving is the key optimization tool. In some DCs, there is a high degree of automation, as conveyors and other forms of advanced automation rapidly move goods from one part of a warehouse to another. For example, the AMR zone may need additional inventory as work proceeds.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 21, 2024

That’s why they need to bring a distribution process efficiency mindset that includes investments in technology and automation. These types of technologies allow for greater visibility across all stages of the distribution process as well as more efficient use of resources.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 4, 2024

It serves as a compelling example of how retailers must reassess their inventory strategies to adapt to rapidly shifting market demands driven by trends. Daily Automated Segmentation Enter the realm of automated segmentation, a solution that streamlines inventory management by taking demand variability into account daily.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 4, 2024

Another example of data normalization is accounting for lost sales due to stockouts or waste of perishable products due to overstocking of inventory. For example, the demand for the Chocolate Peanut Butter Cup will behave much more similarly to the flavor of Chocolate than Rainbow Sherbert. Wouldn’t it be cool to know within minutes?

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 25, 2024

For example, Google Maps app is a public cloud application. One tool the company has developed to help ensure that companies get value from the Infor solution is called Process Intelligence. The tool allows the success team to drill down and look at where divergences have occurred. Which steps broke down more often?

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 9, 2024

Another example is commuting. Over the years, AI capabilities for prediction, clustering, segmentation, and more have accelerated supply chain strategies, automating daily operations and augmenting data-driven intelligent decision support. The supply chain is no exception. These advancements have revolutionized supply chain planning.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 25, 2024

Consider a planner in Brazil working with the previous lead time prediction example, who has forgotten how to update the parameters. Sometimes hilarious examples of its “hallucinations” illustrate its failure to understand ( My Dinners with GPT-4 by Justin Smith-Ruiu is one of my favorites). It doesn’t understand.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Redesign the process, then use IT I’ll give you a recent example from my business, which enables real-time supply chain visibility, with AI-powered predictive insights and analytics, for the world’s largest shippers and their partners. I was speaking with the Chief Supply Chain Officer at one of the world’s largest CPG companies.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

For example, when a UPS strike was looming last year, the Interos solution automatically highlighted Cooper’s strategic suppliers that relied on UPS for shipping. Agility and Resilience Dr. Runkle gave a few examples of the varied ways in which they use the solution to improve their operations. Then the risk solution fills in the gaps.

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