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Future-Proof Logistics Warehouses with Flexibility and Throughput

Logistics Viewpoints

For example, flexible systems allow warehouses to shift resources seamlessly between e-commerce and business-to-business (B2B) operations, enabling smooth transitions between high-demand cycles for different clients. Flexibility enables these warehouses to customize workflows and systems to accommodate their clients diverse needs.

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A Lean Leadership Pocket Card

The Lean Thinker

It was used in conjunction with our “how to walk the gemba” coaching sessions that we did with the lean staff, and then taught them to do with leaders. It was our job to teach our continuous improvement people how to do that coaching and assisting – beyond just running kaizen events that implement tools.

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Boeing: The Turning Point(s)

The Lean Thinker

The idea was that the original leadership teams would teach this course to the next level of leadership, then train people at that level to teach the next – and cascade the teaching through the leadership ranks. “You guys are showing me how to run a business if I end up starting one.” Usually… overtime.

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Lessons from “The Goal” for Optimizing Warehouse Operations

Logistics Viewpoints

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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Building AI to Unlearn Bias in Recruiting

This eBook covers these issues & shows you how AI can ensure workplace diversity. Research shows that the hiring process is biased and unfair. While we have made progress to solve this, it’s potentially at risk due to advancements in AI technology.

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Standards Driven Innovation: How Connected Vehicles Are Impacting Logistics and Smart Warehousing

Logistics Viewpoints

For example, logistics companies are to employ Level 2 and 3 autonomous vehicles that assist drivers by adjusting speed and steering based on road conditions. For example, logistics companies operating older fleets are faced with upgrading their vehicles to meet the requirements of SAE J3016 standards for automation.

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Infor Nexus is Taking an Interesting Approach to Generative AI

Logistics Viewpoints

A good example is saying “What are my demurrage issues at the Port of Long Beach?” Infor Nexus’s approach is not to just give a specific answer to a specific question, but to provide the right data visual, in this example a matrix type view of several days of shipments with demurrage risk. Mr. Sorgie calls this “rich visual controls.”