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3 Ways to Benchmark to Boost Supply Chain Performance

Logistics Bureau

If you’ve never done a benchmarking exercise before, read on. If, for example, you are concerned about the pick rates in your warehouse, or your transport costs, or your inventory accuracy, benchmarking can help you because it can show you exactly where your performance is compared to others in your industry. Informal Benchmarking.

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Warehouse Capacity – How to Increase It and Avoid Moving

Logistics Bureau

Make the most of your current warehouse using the tips in the video below. Let me just start, I’ll share a few diagrams and images on the way through this video as well. I mean, we actually do this a lot for some of our clients and it’s not untypical to see sort of picks spread like that right across the warehouse.

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Warehouse Product Slotting: The Ultimate Guide

Logistics Bureau

If you browse through the Logistics Bureau blog, you’ll find at least two or three articles—and about the same number of videos—that cover warehouse product slotting. Still, without a doubt, picking is the operational regimen that will see the most significant impact. Slotting Improves Picking Accuracy and Speed.

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Boeing: The Turning Point(s)

The Lean Thinker

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. Again, I wasn’t sure of the point of all of this.

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WorkWave Isn’t Quarantining Our Culture of Continuous Learning

WorkWave

Email or video updates are shared weekly by our CEO, Dave Gianetto, informing employees of our progress, goals, and recognizing the amazing work being done across the organization. With that shift in mind, we created and shared collaboration guides to all employees to help exercise and improve these new skills.

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Raising Productivity in Logistics Operations: The BHAG Approach

Logistics Bureau

As I explain in a YouTube video on this subject, I recently saw a good example of how a BHAG can galvanise a workforce and make a dramatic impact on productivity. They did a benchmarking exercise with us and we found that the industry standard was about 40 lines per hour. A Compelling Reason to set a BHAG.

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Mike Rother: The Toyota Kata Practice Guide

The Lean Thinker

When I landed in Detroit last week to visit Menlo Innovations , Mike Rother picked me up at the airport. While there has been a fair amount about the Improvement Kata out there for a while, the only things we have had about coaching have been the “5 Questions,” a few YouTube videos and some general principles. Coaching Starter Kata.