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Boeing: The Turning Point(s)

The Lean Thinker

In the late 1980s and early 1990s Colin Fox, an early consultant in the world of flow production, had led a series of study missions to Japan that engaged Boeing’s top 100 or so leaders. These study missions were quite eye-opening for the participants. The new plane was also being designed with producibility in mind.

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8 Biggest Risks when Outsourcing to a Low Country Country like China?

Logistics Bureau

When outsourcing, you generally want to keep costs to a minimum. However, there are some risks when you outsource to a low cost country, like: Quality control remains one of the biggest challenges. Ali Baba and the $4 Pyjamas This is no fairy tale, but an example of the cost challenges of manufacturing consumer products at home.

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How HVAC Contractors Can Overcome Supply Chain Woes

Trinity Logistics

 One example is helping you with your routing decisions by matching your freight with the best carriers, lanes, rates, and transit service. It Onshoring refers to the overall practice of moving manufacturing operations from foreign soil back to the United States or outsourcing to domestic contract manufacturers rather than overseas.

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Getting Aligned with Business Goals for Successful Logistics Outsourcing

Logistics Bureau

Logistics outsourcing is frequently “sold” on the dollars and hours it saves a business compared to its in-house operations. Yet those business goals are also a key consideration in logistics and logistics outsourcing. Neither the client nor the logistics services provider make the most of the logistics outsourcing agreement.

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Five New Ways Shipping Businesses Will Use Technology in 2021

MTS Logistics

Tools like Kissmetrics, for example, enable businesses to analyze marketing data to support decision-making by management. Before the COVID-19 pandemic, some studies indicated that one in two office workers would work remotely at least some of the time in 2020. Outsource IT to reduce outages, downtime, and more.

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Transportation Strategies for Continued Success

Logistics Viewpoints

Ultimately it comes down to whether shippers want to manage their freight spend in-house or outsource it. Ma-chine learning can be used to “learn” these constraints rather than having to do time studies and hard code these constraints into the solution. Address Outsourcing Risks Head On. Invest in IoT.

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31 Motivations for Reshoring Manufacturing & Updated Reshoring Stats

GlobalTranz

And, according to a Boston Consulting Group (BCG) study, 54% of companies with above one billion in revenues are now considering reshoring. And, some companies just instinctively followed the corporate crowd toward outsourcing. for example, compared to shipping state-to-state. a move known as reshoring.