Logistics Bureau

JANUARY 16, 2025

Just as your body needs multiple defense mechanisms to fight off illness, your supply chain needs various strategies to handle disruptions, whether they’re local supplier issues or global crises. Common examples of Supply Chain Disruptions So what are the main reasons that you need to consider supply chain resiliency in the first place?

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 9, 2025

Unlike fixed automation, flexible solutions can be reconfigured or expanded to meet changing operational needs, from handling new SKU profiles to adopting advanced technologies. Throughput is particularly critical for 3PLs, as high-speed operations enable them to handle larger volumes, expand their client base, and generate greater revenue.

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The Lean Thinker

MARCH 27, 2023

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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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 30, 2025

For instance, many distribution centers (DCs) face challenges handling rising e-commerce order volumes alongside wholesale orders because their WMS or ERP systems only support wave-based picking. Warehouse optimization solutions enable DCs to implement waveless picking or dynamic order prioritization, even with legacy systems.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 13, 2024

Through the story of a plant manager, it offers insights on how to improve efficiency, which also includes optimizing the production process as a whole, instead of focusing on individual parts. In our picking example, you would begin by analyzing the entire warehouse to identify where the bottleneck or constraint occurs.

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The Lean Thinker

JANUARY 25, 2024

I outlined the typical scenario – the map is built by the Continuous Improvement Team, and they are the ones primarily engaged in the conversations about how to close the gap between the current state and the future state. In this working example, asking the shop floor workforce to fix this problem would be futile.

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