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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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Understanding Freightonomics with Anthony Smith

The Logistics of Logistics

FreightWaves’ SaaS product, SONAR, is the leading freight market analytics tool and dashboard, aggregating billions of data points from hundreds of sources to provide the fastest data in the transportation and logistics sector. FreightWaves provides current digital intelligence and context to the freight community on a central platform.

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Tools and tips for today’s capacity-crunched market

Logistics Viewpoints

Growing freight volumes may be welcome news for brokers, third-party logistics (3PL) operations and carriers, but with the driver shortage holding back industry expansion, finding freight carrying capacity remains an ever present and larger challenge.

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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. Load optimization algorithms ensure that vehicles are used to capacity, reducing the number of trips required and consequently lowering emissions.

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Modeling brewing capacity to drive cost savings at HEINEKEN

AIMMS

This means we help the team answer questions about global production footprint design, such as “where should we build our breweries,” “where should we invest in capacity,” “how much capacity should we build on which location,” “what kind of equipment should we invest in” and “when should we invest.”. a non-alcoholic beer).

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New Tools Help Freight Brokers Find ‘Hidden’ Capacity

Blue Grace Logistics

With the Book-It-Now feature, drivers are presented with available BlueGrace loads and pricing to accept and confirm with a single click. Truck capacity is stretched tight and motor carriers are heading into peak retail season with a full head of steam. Transportation and logistics providers that can bring capacity are in high demand.

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Finding Trucking Capacity by Rapidly Onboarding New Carriers

Turvo

In the logistics and shipping industry, capacity refers to the amount of space secured on trucks and other vehicles to carry shipment loads. This generally gets referred to as trucking capacity, and it remains one of the most critical aspects of dealing with supply chain disruptions. On normal days, this can be challenging enough.