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Logistics Viewpoints
JANUARY 26, 2021
The definition of agility and resilience will continue to evolve. The hyper-focus on meeting customer expectations is also creating pressures upstream in the supply chain, as manufacturers extend visibility and collaboration beyond their own walls to avoid any disruptions. A Positive Example. There are Also Commercial Reasons.
Conger
JULY 28, 2022
Plenty of examples of warehousing. Looking for a private warehousing definition? Now that we’ve covered private warehouses, let’s give a public warehouse definition. Perhaps the most prominent fulfillment center example is Amazon’s fulfillment centers. For example, take Co-op Partners Warehouse in St.
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The Lean Thinker
MARCH 9, 2020
The story I cited above about inventory levels is a great example. I can make my defect rates improve by altering the definition of “defect.” For example, I was working at a large company where a significant part of their product cost was a commodity raw material. The “rising tides” test.
Logistics Bureau
DECEMBER 22, 2024
A KPI is a practical and objective measurement of progress, either: Towards a predetermined goal, or Against a required standard of performance It might help to think of a KPI as something like an instrument on a car dashboarda speedometer, for example. Why Are KPIs Important?
Logistics Bureau
DECEMBER 28, 2024
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. Cloud computing itself is a prime example.
The Lean Thinker
MARCH 23, 2023
During the war there was huge growth and turnover within the industrial base as production shifted from civilian products (locomotives, for example) to wartime production (tanks). That is the purpose of these meetings. Are you comfortable with this definition of “good supervision?” War Manpower Commission.
The Lean Thinker
DECEMBER 9, 2022
The work also met every definition of “difficult, dirty and dangerous.” When “trams” (coal carts) were in short supply, for example, the “trammers” would horde carts to optimize their team’s performance at the expense of other teams being limited by the number of carts available.
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