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The Cancer of Fear

The Lean Thinker

I am sitting in on a daily production status meeting. The site has been in trouble meeting its schedule, and the division president is on the call. This, of course, gets reflected in the conversations throughout the organization. The actual consequence was a small delay, with no impact on production. The call ends.

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Mini Yellow’ sortation robots help ZTO meet the demands of ‘singles day’ 

Logistics Business Magazine

ZTO’s network partners are responsible for first-mile pick-up and last-mile delivery services, while the mission-critical transportation and sorting processes that take place in between pick-up and parcel delivery are undertaken by ZTO. Both types have CE certification.

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What Conversations Does Your VSM Drive?

The Lean Thinker

” Of course the answer was “No.” The Future State Map is a Hypothesis Once you understand the current condition, the next step is to answer the question, “How does the process need to operate in order to meet our goal?” It isn’t about seeing what you could do by removing waste.

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Sortation Solution for Japanese Fashion Retailer

Logistics Business Magazine

United Arrows, one of Japan’s leading fashion retail brands, has seen a significant increase in the efficiency of the order sortation process at its Tokyo distribution hub following the introduction of a mobile robot-based sorting system supplied and installed by LiBiao Robotics.

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Automation To Help Smooth Singles’ Day Peak

Logistics Business Magazine

Originating at China’s Nanjing University in 1993 as a sort of anti-Valentine’s Day, Singles’ Day is celebrated by unmarried people in China on the 11th November. Of course, this enormous spike in volumes puts retailers’ supply chains and distribution networks under extreme pressure. billion (€120 billion).

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Sustaining National Defence – logistics investment in the National Defence Strategy

Logistics in War

The media, think-tanks and all sorts of commentators have followed Ukraine’s experience of invasion to find another prompt that something should be done. There are, of course, many other examples where assumptions had led to risks being accepted in advance of war, and preparedness failures occurred as a result.

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Road Safety: See it, Say it, Sorted

Logistics Business Magazine

Feats such as reversing the course of the river, reclaiming land from Lake Michigan and building the first skyscrapers followed. Driver coaching used to take days, with weekly meetings typical. Accidents trigger a report and workflows are automatically assigned, using ‘Connected Training’ which has customised courses and quizzes.

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