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Toyota Kata: Coaching vs a Report Out

The Lean Thinker

In other words, report out progress (like in a meeting, for example) as though you were answering a version of the Coaching Questions even though they aren’t being asked. The next step being taken, what we expect (or expect to learn) It would be really simple, for example, to format PowerPoint slides in this sequence.

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Executives Exploring AI Need to Understand Data Fabrics

Logistics Viewpoints

In the supply chain arena, the need to make course corrections is exploding. They may not handle the complex data types encountered on the edge, which are often unstructured, time-sensitive, and critical for real-time decision-making. Frederic Laluyaux, the CEO of Aera Technology, agrees with this assessment.

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Robots, Robots, and More Warehouse Robots!

Logistics Viewpoints

And almost all the large material handling vendors and systems integrators that don’t include that word in their title were also displaying bots. For example, if the system has trouble picking a particular item, an alert can tell a planner not to allow that stock keeping unit to enter the robotic picking queue.

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What Conversations Does Your VSM Drive?

The Lean Thinker

What lead time capability would let you routinely handle these issues so they weren’t even issues anymore, just normal operations? In this working example, asking the shop floor workforce to fix this problem would be futile. ” Of course the answer was “No.” Is your system unresponsive to customers?

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Getting Started with AI in Supply Chain

Logistics Viewpoints

Some try delving into deep learning or a crash course in generative AI (GenAI), but I don’t recommend starting there. Consider a planner in Brazil working with the previous lead time prediction example, who has forgotten how to update the parameters. Getting started with AI in supply chain might not start where you think.