Exercises Groups Presentation 
Logistics Bureau
NOVEMBER 20, 2023
Indeed, the transition has taken place so swiftly that some companies may still need to fully grasp the present or future possibilities to exploit distribution performance as a competitive advantage. In reality, it would take several rounds of fine-tuning to get all the orders sorted into routes without leaving any vehicles underutilised.”
Logistics Bureau
NOVEMBER 26, 2024
Any warehouse design exercise that doesn’t include a rigorous approach to designing the processes and equipment layout for Order Picking, is suspect. Here are a few: Batch Picking: Picking multiple orders at the same time, grouping similar items together to reduce travel time and increase efficiency.
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The Lean Thinker
JULY 2, 2024
With the justification aside, they next had us go through exercises calculating net present value and ROI for a hypothetical capital investment in tooling – as though a shop floor supervisor would do this at any point in the course of their job. Years later I joined another group touring the 737 “moving” line.
Logistics Viewpoints
FEBRUARY 2, 2023
Instead of manually entering data at set intervals throughout the month – an after-the-fact exercise prone to errors and omissions – an automated solution captures billable activities correctly in real-time, improving overhead utilization, cost control, and revenue leakage at once. To learn more, visit Open Sky Group today.
Logistics in War
MARCH 11, 2025
The following text is of a presentation given at a 2019 Wiliams Foundation conference, ‘Sustaining self-reliance’ As the original article cannot be found on other sites, it is provided here with some slight adjustments. The answer cant afford to be as simplistic as thirty days of supply or purchase from the global market.
Logistics in War
AUGUST 3, 2018
Also known known as a ‘historical immersion problem,’ a decision-forcing case is an exercise in which participants take on the role of an actual person who, at some point in the past, was faced by a particularly challenging problem. The Road to Habbaniya’ is a two-problem exercise.
AIMMS
FEBRUARY 1, 2021
Like others in our peer group, we often find ourselves sharing a range based on results typically seen in the market. While businesses differ in complexity and size, for this exercise we extrapolated based on these $7.5Bn baselines. When the models are built, running scenarios with these large businesses can be a lot of fun.
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