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“95 Thesis” on Kaizen Events and TPS

The Lean Thinker

Kaizen Events. Kaizen events (or whatever we want to call the traditional week-long activity): Can be a useful tool when used in the context of an overall plan. This is independent of whether it is done in a week-long intense event or not. Classes and Courses ? If there is interest, I’ll put something together.

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COVID Has Fundamentally Changed the Profession of Supply Chain Management

Logistics Viewpoints

The toilet paper shortage was one of the COVID era events that taught people what the term “supply chain management” meant. But the difficulty in finding workers has becoming a huge challenge at many factories and warehouses. But these events were not predictable – they might happen, they might not.

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Boeing: The Turning Point(s)

The Lean Thinker

Of course, a high stock price enriches those people who already own shares, and makes options and stock grants more valuable, but they didn’t get into that either. ” The result was a 32 hour course that ran two days, then a break, then two days the following week. Elimination of waste: Focus on adding value.

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The iPhone 6s Freight Shipping Costs

Freightos

At the same time, Apple tried to steal the show by showcasing its new products at the Hey Siri event. And how much would it cost you or me if we could order one phone direct from the factory? Of course, Apple’s supply chains are consistently rates the best in the world. cost Apple? Bottom line?

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Circular Supply Chains with Deborah Dull

The Logistics of Logistics

She is a sought after author and speaker having been published in various books, articles, and white papers and spoken at dozens of industry events. Join the Circular Supply Chain Network to be among the first to know when we have live discussions, webinars, new courses, and more! Factories do not have to be huge and polluting.

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

Logistics Viewpoints

Optimization is used in supply planning, factory scheduling, supply chain design , and transportation planning. In mathematical terms, optimization is a mixed-integer or linear programming approach to finding the best combination of warehouses, factories, transportation flows, and other supply chain resources under real-world constraints.

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The Advantage of Speed: The Cooper Health Supply Chain Relies Upon Real-time Risk Alerts

Logistics Viewpoints

And the reasons spanned from a global chip shortage, to embargoes, to factory fires, to natural disasters. Buying organizations use this technology to monitor and analyze supplier risk events in real-time. I don’t need to know about Tier 2 events for my market suppliers. Of course it would! I have 1000s of them.