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Tariffs: A Brief History and the Debate of Whether They are Good or Bad

MTS Logistics

The port industry in Portugal definitely benefitted from, at first, no trade between the two powers, and then they kept benefiting when heavy tariffs resumed between Britain and France. Of course, like most peoples reaction to tariffs, the colonists didnt like that idea. These are just some of the many examples of tariffs in history.

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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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5 examples of the black swan theory

Logistics at MPEPS at UPV

Today we are going to find out what the black swan theory means, how it affects the economy and the society overall and several examples of how the black swan events have changed the words. The video game industry has taken the trend and has also dramatically changed course.

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A Guide to Supply Chain Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)

Logistics Bureau

A KPI is a practical and objective measurement of progress, either: Towards a predetermined goal, or Against a required standard of performance It might help to think of a KPI as something like an instrument on a car dashboarda speedometer, for example. Why Are KPIs Important?

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HBR: Managers Think They’re Good At Coaching. They’re Not.

The Lean Thinker

.” None of this, of course, had anything to do with what had triggered the tirade. example may have been a somewhat extreme case, a recent HBR article by Julia Milner and Trenton Milner titled Managers Think They’re Good at Coaching. The very definition of kata implies a structure. What Is Coaching?

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The Definition of Transparency

Blue Grace Logistics

As it is with most problems there is a lack of a clear and concise definition, according to an MIT study which conducted a survey of the apparel industry only to find wildly different results. Slave labor in the Thai seafood industry and deforestation in Malaysia and Indonesia are ample examples of this.

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Companies Improve their Supply Chains with Artificial Intelligence

Logistics Viewpoints

In the course of updating our annual research on the supply chain planning market , I talked to executives across the industry. Let’s start with a definition: any device that can perceive its environment and takes actions that maximize its chance of success at some goal is engaged in some form of artificial intelligence (AI).