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Fleet Route Optimisation in the Past, Present, and Future

Logistics Bureau

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.”

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“Flesh and Breath” – The Appeal of Delegating to AI and its Limits

Logistics Viewpoints

Never Delegate Understanding – the Limits of AI Charles and Ray Eames designed some of the most iconic furniture of the 20th century through a deep study of an object’s purpose, a process that led to their famous adage, “Never delegate understanding.” In short, delegating to AI is moving fast and making an impact.

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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. These study missions were quite eye-opening for the participants.

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Decision-forcing cases for logistics: practicing logisticians to overcome ‘wicked problems’

Logistics in War

A military logistician is a study in contrasts. 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. A link to his site can be found here.

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Preparing for preparedness – how should we begin?

Logistics in War

Eccles argued that ‘no problem presents more difficulty than trying to determine in advance the most efficient balance of logistics resources and combat forces that will be needed for any campaign’. [2] In the meantime, we should study its strengths and weaknesses, and the how and why of its present design. 1] See Eccles, H.,

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How to Boost Worker Productivity by Promoting a Positive Mindset

GlobalTranz

Workers who are present but performing less than 100 percent due to illness or stress actually cost companies more on worker productivity than absent workers do, losing an average 12.4 days lost due to absence, according to a study by Willis Towers Watson. Negativity in the workplace hurts worker productivity and costs money.

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Condition Monitoring- A Case Study-Part I

Infosys Supply Chain Management

Here''s presenting the case study of how a seemingly workable condition monitoring exercise can possibly go wrong. You can witness several CM programs failing because of the limited understanding of holistic program goals. You can witness several CM programs failing because of the limited understanding of holistic program goals.