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Mistake Proofing ? Getting People?s Attention

The Lean Thinker

It creates the illusion of complete awareness of the things around us when, in reality, we are simply aware of a model our brains have constructed of what we perceive to be there. How many opportunities to they have to make a mistake every day… every hour… in the course of their work? They are experts at what they do.

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TWI: Is it Time to Rethink Job Relations?

The Lean Thinker

During the war there was huge growth and turnover within the industrial base as production shifted from civilian products (locomotives, for example) to wartime production (tanks). The challenge, of course, is that nobody owns this material. Now… reality is more subtle than this, of course. War Manpower Commission.

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Autoliv’s Supply Chain Risk Management Journey

Logistics Viewpoints

Can you give me a concrete example of how your risk management solution detected a threat and came to the rescue? For example, to build that plant, the company would need to work with a construction company or companies. Then of course, our own team needs constant training because our initiative is evolving over time.

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Key Takeaways from Oracle CloudWorld 2023

Logistics Viewpoints

Greenhouses can be constructed to be like semiconductor clean rooms which would eliminate the need for pesticides. And of course, Oracle with their investments in Cloud computing, Internet of Things technology, and artificial intelligence can be used to minimize inputs while increasing productivity. Uber has an ecosystem.

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Key Takeaways from SAP Spend Connect Live

Logistics Viewpoints

At one of the demo booths, what stood out was the ability of the procurement solution to track savings leakage over the course of a contract. For example, a buyer might say, “You only shipped me 800 of the 1000 products I ordered.” When a procurement contract is negotiated, the buyer has planned to achieve a certain level of savings.

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Supply Chain AI: 25 Current Use Cases (and a Handful of Future Ones)

Logistics Viewpoints

These predictions accelerate a company’s ability to verify how its extended supply chain is constructed. For example, if you want to train a vision system to recognize a dog’s image, you will start by using humans to look at tens of thousands of images of animals. The humans label the pictures as dog, not dog, or unclear.

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Is Saint-Gobain Serious About Reducing Their Carbon Footprint?

Logistics Viewpoints

A worldwide leader in light and sustainable construction, Saint-Gobain is present in 72 countries with more than 167,000 employees. Saint-Gobain designs, manufactures, and distributes materials and solutions for the construction, mobility, healthcare and other industrial application markets.