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Order Planning and Batching (Chapter 3)

Camelot 3PL Software

As an example, one such rule may be that orders marked with a status of “priority” and are received by the warehouse before 12 PM must ship same-day. Batching rules from one client to the next may never be the same, and so defining those rules is a part of the discovery and implementation of the client.

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What Conversations Does Your VSM Drive?

The Lean Thinker

Getting a continuous improvement culture into place means changing the day-to-day patterns of interaction between people and groups of people. In this working example, asking the shop floor workforce to fix this problem would be futile. When a shop is behind, the management reflexes are (1) increasing batch sizes and (2) expediting.

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[INFOGRAPHIC & VIDEO] A 2D Explainer of Rapid Prototyping & Additive Manufacturing in 3D Printing

GlobalTranz

Rapid prototyping is a group of techniques used to quickly fabricate a scale model of a physical part or assembly using three-dimensional computer aided design (CAD) data. What is Rapid Prototyping? Construction of the part or assembly is usually done using 3D printing or "additive layer manufacturing" technology. Functional Principle.

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Calling ‘order’ on Inbound Goods

Logistics Business Magazine

Dan Migliozzi, Sales & Marketing Director, at independent systems integrator, Invar Group , gets to the root of the problem. The supplier, after all, isn’t presenting a chaotic mix of items just to be awkward – they will have their own constraints, for example on batch sizes and times, or on their own storage capacities.

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Cost Reduction in Supply Chains by Opportunity and by Design

Logistics Bureau

Goods inspection is an example. Thus, the purchasing team may try to reduce unit prices, without thinking about batch sizes or delivery frequency, causing inventory levels to rise. Wage inflation in China for example has made outsourcing less attractive and eroded the previous landed cost advantage.