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Toyota Kata: What If There Is No Takt Time?

The Lean Thinker

Steve’s proposal was a Current / Target condition template that includes more than the “blank generic version” but doesn’t focus so much on the cadence and timing: From Steve Medlin’s KataCon presentation. From an industrial engineering standpoint, takt time is an expression of how much capacity you need.

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MTS Logistics: An Example of Great Customer Service in Shipping

MTS Logistics

The capacity to influence the purchasing experience, engage customers throughout the entire delivery lifecycle, and offer valuable real-time delivery information sets market leaders apart from their competitors. What sets shipping and logistics companies apart for great customer service?

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Empowering a Greener, Smarter Future in Logistics Through AI

MTS Logistics

Despite its transformative potential, the path to full AI integration in logistics presents challenges. For example, route optimization algorithms help logistics companies reduce travel distances and fuel consumption by determining the most efficient paths based on real-time data, such as traffic and weather conditions.

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Alleviating the Uncertainty of Peak Season: The Role of Home Delivery in 2024

Logistics Viewpoints

Understanding what consumers want With billions of dollars of orders poised to test the capacity of retailers’ shipping operations this peak season, minimizing fulfillment uncertainty and transforming customer confidence through optimized last mile delivery becomes priority one.

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Carrier Capacity Management Levels the Playing Field in a Carriers’ Market

Logistics Viewpoints

Carrier capacity tops the list of parcel shippers’ challenges. E-commerce order volume keeps climbing, straining carrier capacity with shippers sending more parcels outbound and receiving more returns inbound. Carrier capacity management strategies ease the crunch. Widening our view of carrier capacity management.

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Ambitious Growth Plans? Your Customers Will Right-Size You

The Lean Thinker

The business literature is full of examples of this – companies who could not keep up with their own success, their performance deteriorates and, well, many of them go out of business. Starry-eyed executives often look only at the financial models, maybe equipment capacity, and skip over the operational aspects of their due diligence.

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Automation To Help Smooth Singles’ Day Peak

Logistics Business Magazine

Single people mark the occasion by spoiling and treating themselves to gifts and presents, but it wasn’t until Chinese eCommerce giant Alibaba chose the date to offer heavily discounted merchandise on its platform for 24 hours, starting at midnight on the 11th November, 2009, that Singles’ Day became a major commercial event.