The Lean Thinker

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Of course that implies that we (our community) is still largely stuck in the same groove we were a decade ago. It took four 11×17 (A3 size) sheets taped together to depict what happened as raw steel came in one end of the building and was cut, bent, welded, painted, and assembled with purchased components into the final product.

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MTS Logistics

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

CBP believes though this continuing education can improve an individual customs broker’s skills, performance and productivity. Information on the accreditation process and details on courses offered by CBP and PGAs will be posted on the CBP website as they become available.

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Logistics Bureau

JANUARY 2, 2025

So thats the route were taking in this article (no pun intended), we’ll be exploring the evolution of fleet route optimisation from a time-consuming pen-and-paper exercise to a high-tech process that, in some cases, can be completed in minutes. But first, what is route optimisation?

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Ship Monk

JUNE 20, 2022

And, of course , that the page they’re on is informed, thorough, and forward-thinking. Yes, there are also cute company dogs present, warehouse tours, and the occasional lighthearted team-building exercise, but overall, employees keep their eyes on the prize of enhancing our 3PL’s ability to kick eCommerce butt.

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Logistics Bureau

APRIL 19, 2021

If you’ve never done a benchmarking exercise before, read on. It would, of course, be what the winning time was when this race was last run in your district. They had a little issue with their picking productivity in the warehouse. This helped us realise that their picking productivity should be three times better than it was.

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Morai Logistics

OCTOBER 18, 2018

To an online shopper, the process of dropping product into a shopping cart and checking out seems relatively simple. However, the movement of transporting product from the manufacturer, to the distribution center, to the end user, is far more complex. This figure has significantly increased over the course of the last few years.

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Logistics Bureau

APRIL 15, 2016

Warehouse Product Slotting – To Slot or Not to Slot? Slotting is a warehouse term that refers to intentionally placing products within the warehouse storage medium to create warehouse efficiencies. Let’s consider what an essential aspect of good warehouse practise, product slotting benefits can achieve.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

The answer, of course, is yes. Instead of manually entering data at set intervals throughout the month – an after-the-fact exercise prone to errors and omissions – an automated solution captures billable activities correctly in real-time, improving overhead utilization, cost control, and revenue leakage at once.

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Logistics Bureau

MARCH 3, 2019

Of course, it would be possible to write an entire book on this particular subject, so for the sake of keeping this article relatively brief, I’ll stick to a short explanation of crucial factors to consider when planning a warehouse network (even if it is a network of one). What are the characteristics of your products?

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Logistics Bureau

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

And, of course, I will also share how knowing your cost-to-serve will help you to solve those all-too-familiar performance gremlins. Potential Factors in Declining Margins To get to the root of the problem, understanding the costs of production or purchasing will be a necessary starting point, but typically, more information will be needed.

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Logistics in War

AUGUST 18, 2019

Of course additional funding and attention can improve the capability and capacity of any military force to sustain itself in peace and on operations. All militaries enjoy large-scale exercises, simulations and desk-top analyses but very rarely do they focus upon the logistics process.

Military 96

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Logistics Bureau

OCTOBER 1, 2024

If you’ve got 10,000 pallet spaces in your warehouse, you can probably realistically use about 8 1/2 thousand of those because you need empty pallet slots to be able to move product in and out and reshuffle things. You know, very non-productive in a warehouse. We can actually get much better picking productivity.

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Supply Chain Brain

MARCH 26, 2018

For most of human history, the success of that exercise has rested on the appointed seer’s years of experience, coupled with some indefinable grasp of probability. Of course, it’s not really simple at all. A single product can have 100 different costs based on size, color and targeted markets. Still, the coming of A.I.

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Logistics Bureau

AUGUST 2, 2021

The price you pay your vendors for their products is a significant factor in your company’s ability to compete in its market. One way to get a handle on this is to measure their track record of product availability. So take a look and think about which ones would be most relevant for your business. Competitiveness of Pricing.

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Conger

MAY 28, 2021

lecture, discussion, interactive computer learning, video tape, written material), practical training (demonstrations performed by the trainer and practical exercises performed by the trainee), and evaluation of the operator's performance in the workplace. Product manufacturing. Online courses. In-person courses.

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AIMMS

JANUARY 28, 2019

But for HEINEKEN International, the famed lager is only one of its products. Most people in my division work in capability development or centers of excellence designed to help operations centers improve their performance in logistics, customer service or production. But it had its limitations, of course.

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Logistics Bureau

JANUARY 7, 2020

Of course, it is helpful to have some statistics on hand to validate the statement above. For the rest, there may be no predefined structure for moving materials and products through the stages of fulfilment. Poor product or service quality. The success of your business links inextricably to the performance of your supply chain.

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Logistics at MPEPS at UPV

MARCH 29, 2023

Here you can check my schedule: Safety Stock Management Next, I counted the essential products needed for cooking these meals per week and forecasted the demand. I also defined a safety stock for some products. I created a list of the goods that I buy and the frequency of ordering (they include food and drugstore products).

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Logistics Bureau

SEPTEMBER 25, 2016

Of course, you can set that goal, or rather, that set of goals (because being the best in your business normally means you must beat the competition in a number of disciplines) yourself, but if it’s to exceed that of the very best today, you must know how well the very best is performing. Click To Tweet. Know Your Distance to Target.

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Logistics Bureau

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

An example of this might be the implementation of a warehouse productivity KPI that encourages the workforce to pick more orders per hour. Another alternative might be to introduce a technological solution, such as pick-by voice, to increase productivity while minimizing the risk of errors. The Power of a Performance Dashboard.

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Logistics Bureau

MAY 31, 2021

The tips in this article will help you know how to identify the customers, products, and processes that might be inflating your cost to serve (CTS) unnecessarily. For example: Compared to selling a product in-store, the cost to deliver that same item as a small parcel can be several times higher. Equipment use. Storage of the SKU.

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Logistics Bureau

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Of course, there is no quick and easy way to curb increases in the cost of energy and labour, but now is an excellent time to start thinking about practical ways to reduce energy usage and increase labour productivity and efficiency. Do We Understand Where Efficiency and Productivity Needs Improvement?

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Logistics Bureau

MARCH 30, 2020

Until the Coronavirus began wreaking its havoc, global companies could run their supply chains on the assumption that disruptions would be rare and short-lived, and that products should be sourced, produced, and distributed at the cheapest locations to be found, wherever in the world that may be. 1) Create Transparency.

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Logistics Bureau

JULY 18, 2022

The added benefit of working with such a partner is that because they collect performance data from hundreds of companies, they can help you choose the most appropriate key performance indicators to use in your benchmarking exercise. Step 5: Consider Productivity and Visibility. Instead, it should always be the other way around.

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GlobalTranz

APRIL 6, 2021

But the rapid shift from retail to online purchasing for staples and the surge for protective equipment, as well as unanticipated products like bread makers and home-schooling items, left many retailers flatfooted. Of course, toilet paper and paper towels were in short supply as well. 2020 Was A Year Of Supply Chain Disruption.

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Logistics Bureau

FEBRUARY 1, 2025

The companies that have been most successful with this business model are those, like Inditex (owners of Zara) and H&M, that have shortened their supply chains and secured direct control over design, production, and logistics, if not raw material supply.

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Logistics Bureau

AUGUST 1, 2022

The need for any S&OP process to have an executive sponsor who actively participates in the process, albeit only by exercising final approval over plans and, of course, making any decisions that call for executive authority, cannot be overstated. S&OP is ostensibly a numbers game, of course. The Executive Sponsor.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

JANUARY 19, 2022

To assist with the short-term solution, the answer is an extensive data-gathering exercise. While there’s no quick and easy solution in the short term, your best bet is to evaluate how best to use every piece of raw material you have available, profitably – the basis of the Toyota production System. Use data to improve operations.

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Logistics Bureau

MAY 24, 2019

Supply Chain Cost Reduction Challenges: Deere and Company has a diverse product range, which includes a mix of heavy machinery for the consumer market, and industrial equipment, which is made to order. With each Atom product being a single component, there was also no way to reduce duty payments. plants to four.

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Logistics Bureau

APRIL 3, 2023

But, of course, what those circumstances are is for you to decide. Additionally, a large-scale supplier can typically spread fixed costs over a larger production volume, reducing the price per unit. Perhaps product repairs are a feature of your service provision? Let’s take ecommerce as an example.

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UL EHS- Sustainability

OCTOBER 31, 2019

But the most successful learning and development teams also understand how to measure the success of each training course and react accordingly. Certainly, employee development plays a pivotal role in every successful enterprise today. Traditional training models address performance issues only when there is a lack of knowledge and skills.

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Logistics Bureau

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Even if you simplify your product range and your upstream suppliers, you still have to deal with the ramifications of diverse customers, their expectations, their location and the logistics needed to meet their requirements. It costs you a certain amount to make a product. You then set a sales price for that product.

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Logistics in War

MARCH 6, 2020

Of course additional funding and attention can improve the capability and capacity of any military force to sustain itself in peace and on operations. All militaries enjoy large-scale exercises, simulations and desk-top analyses but very rarely do they focus upon the logistics process.

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Logistics Business Magazine

MAY 5, 2020

By Anne van de Heetkamp, VP of Product Management GTC, Descartes: Acknowledging potential weaknesses in your supply chain before they are exposed by elements beyond your control is of critical value. To identify potential soft spots, a review should not be limited to a single product flow or single supply chain element.

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Logistics in War

SEPTEMBER 1, 2019

The truth, of course, lies somewhere in between. Fourthly, the logistics organisation must be exercised and be the subject of experiments which qualify risks. Because logistics is a product of context, the more specific any guidance given, the better. Alternatively, it is also tempting to answer ‘just enough’.

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Logistics Bureau

APRIL 4, 2022

The answer is to benchmark your freight, of course. Firstly, if you plan to benchmark as a one-off exercise now and again, you might engage a specialist team of consultants to execute a project for you. A digital freight benchmarking product from a software house will likely provide you with access to masses of such data.

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Conger

JULY 20, 2020

Of course not. This portion of training must consist of “demonstrations performed by the trainer and practical exercises performed by the trainee” [OSHA standard 1910.178(l)(2)(ii) ]. With lots of options and aggressive marketing for online certification courses, you've probably had this question cross your mind.

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