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Project Management is Daily Management at Menlo Innovations

The Lean Thinker

At the start of each week, the planned cards are placed, in order, on the “work authorization board” which is a tack board on the wall. The developers work on the cards from top to bottom, in order. Daily Management All of this was to set up the daily management system. The name is literal.

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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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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. Of course things change, but some fundamentals stay the same.

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A Guide to Supply Chain Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)

Logistics Bureau

Of course, the big challenge in this type of external benchmarking is obtaining the necessary data, since many companies are wary of sharing performance data with potential competitors. Of course, its also possible to add further tiers for even more granularity, but again, the more levels you have, the more complex your KPI solution.

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TWI: Is it Time to Rethink Job Relations?

The Lean Thinker

In addition, there are companies that are “training the trainer” to deliver the course precisely – which is good – and coaching them not to deviate from the words in the manual. The challenge, of course, is that nobody owns this material. Now… reality is more subtle than this, of course.

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How Business Intelligence drives business performance

SYSPRO Smarter ERP

Deby Joevita, an award-winning User Experience Designer, mentioned during an online course that a UX design should have some metrics built in, which should provide you with the necessary direction towards achieving a meaningful experience for users. Suddenly my attention was on full alert and my interest piqued.

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A simple but clear perspective on the notion of Shipping Cartels

Shipping and Freight Resource

Based on this, there seems to be a natural and immediate view that these lines fit the definition of cartel “ A cartel is a group of independent market participants who collude with each other in order to improve their profits and dominate the market. Of course, it has long been the case that publishers target their readers.