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Project Management is Daily Management at Menlo Innovations

The Lean Thinker

Both of the above examples happen to be 16 hours. The Project Manager is freed up from trying to keep track of everything simply because it is insanely easy for anyone to see the status in real-time during the course of any given week. There are two critical keys here. Those estimates are not second-guessed or adjusted by others.

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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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How Good is Your Logistics Service Provider?

Logistics Viewpoints

But in the context of the Shippers Council, the shipper is the cargo owner (or BCO beneficial cargo owner), usually a manufacturer, who contracts with a logistics service provider (LSP), which, in the Councils definition, can be a transportation (land, sea, air) company, an express company, a forwarder, or a full-fledged 3PL.

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Trailer Loading Automation Made Accessible

Logistics Business Magazine

However, ATLS are proving a good example of how access to automation is changing. Expanding the definition of ROI The benefits of an automated trailer loading system are vast: reduced loading times lead to higher throughput and operational cost savings, in addition to improved safety, accuracy and consistency.

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3PL Industry Trends and a Forthcoming Identity Crisis

Logistics Bureau

As a general definition, a 3PL helps a company to get its offering, conceived in place A, into the hands of its customers in place B. The solution is to back up, figuratively speaking, to the general definition of the need and see how overall trends and developments in the world could make this need map onto other, different solutions.

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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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Why the Supply Chain Matters to Business Success

Logistics Bureau

Of course, it is helpful to have some statistics on hand to validate the statement above. The definition above is not from any textbook, but is simply one that I’m sure you’ll agree, describes a state of affairs that any corporate leader or business owner would be happy to arrive at. If you want business success (and who doesn’t?),