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The Free TMS with Tim Higham

The Logistics of Logistics

Tim Higham and Joe Lynch discuss the free TMS, which is of course AscendTMS. This gives you the flexibility to choose the deployment option that best meets your needs. You can be sure that AscendTMS will continue to meet your needs as your business grows and changes. AscendTMS).

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It’s Hard to Learn if you Already Know

The Lean Thinker

In this TED Talk, Amy Edmondson of the Harvard Business School talks about “How to turn a group of strangers into a team.” Although long-standing teams are able to perform, our workplaces today require ad-hoc collaboration between diverse groups. Of course, just sending an invitation doesn’t mean people come to the party.

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Executives Exploring AI Need to Understand Data Fabrics

Logistics Viewpoints

According to Colin Masson, a director of research at ARC Advisory Group, the opportunity to mine these vast quantities of data to achieve business value is “NOW.” In the supply chain arena, the need to make course corrections is exploding. Many global multinationals accelerated their investments in digitizing data during the pandemic.

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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. That is the purpose of these meetings.

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HBR: Managers Think They’re Good At Coaching. They’re Not.

The Lean Thinker

” None of this, of course, had anything to do with what had triggered the tirade. As I recall I had scheduled a meeting with a supplier over something that he had thought was more important. Needless to say, the guy didn’t have a lot of credibility with the group, as this was pretty normal behavior.

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Focus on people drives success for Utz Group

Logistics Business Magazine

Celebrating its 75th anniversary this year, the Utz Group believes that – in addition to its technological innovation and local service – it is the company’s culture of focusing on people and fostering a sense of community that drives its success. Utz recently held a group-wide conference (pictured) to mark its 75-year milestone.

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3PL Industry Trends and a Forthcoming Identity Crisis

Logistics Bureau

He suggested that businesses are more likely to prosper if they focus on meeting the needs of customers, instead of selling products. The first thing for any 3PL to do is to understand the nature of its market and the need it meets. All you need is your credit card (and a driving licence, of course.)

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