The Lean Thinker

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Last week (February 17-20) I attended (and presented at) the TWI and Toyota Kata summits put on by my friends at Lean Frontiers. To be clear, what follows are my impressions and thoughts that were sparked by some of the presentations. Photo from Martha Purrier’s Presentation. Audit Check Card.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 3, 2025

He also spoke at the ARC forum in 2023, and this article is based on that presentation as well. Agentic AI involves creating a system of interacting agents, each trained on a specific task or dataset. to create a work order for Fred. Then a new updated work order was created to swap out the asset. Celanese has 2.5

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TransAudit

JANUARY 13, 2025

Global shipping and transportation present tremendous opportunities for businesses, but they also bring complex challenges, particularly when it comes to compliance. Compliance management software can help businesses track global trade regulations and ensure that all required documentation is in order.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 13, 2024

This solution provides for purchase order collaboration. It is a bad sign if an AI solution is being trained on public web data,” Turner explained. “A A solution needs to be trained on the right data, on data that has been ethically sourced.” Coupa also has a supply chain collaboration solution that runs on the platform.

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MTS Logistics

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Training and education are only part of MTS Logistics’ formula for achieving a consistently high level of performance. Real-time delivery status updates are crucial for keeping customers informed about their orders, ensuring they are present to receive them, and confirming that the contents meet their expectations.

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Logistics Business Magazine

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Single people mark the occasion by spoiling and treating themselves to gifts and presents, but it wasn’t until Chinese eCommerce giant Alibaba chose the date to offer heavily discounted merchandise on its platform for 24 hours, starting at midnight on the 11th November, 2009, that Singles’ Day became a major commercial event.

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Airfreight Logistics

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

DHL Express has presented its new Strategy 2025 on the occasion of the opening of its € 123 million state-of-the-art hub at Cologne-Bonn Airport. As the experts in export and import, we can only grow by ensuring top quality, which is why we invest more than a billion euros each year in employee training, infrastructure, and digitalization.

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Ship Monk

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Optimally, I would say within a few weeks of receiving inventory an account should be ready to go live and start fulfilling orders. For example, accounts that are just starting out in ecommerce sales with lower monthly order volumes typically need a lot of attention. It really depends. Most brands are excited to start selling.

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Material Handling and Logistics

AUGUST 31, 2018

It’s no surprise that the current labor market is presenting a big challenge for organizations within the supply chain. For example, using smartphones and tablets instead of barcode scanners can make it easier to train your employees and for them to get work done. Trouble finding skilled labor”. The Eaten Elephant.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

JUNE 27, 2022

It does present a training requirement, the need for new skills for industry 4.0 Ongoing training initiatives. It goes without saying, that in order for the skills deficit to be reduced significantly, skills development needs to be central to a business digital strategy. Rollout ongoing training opportunities.

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The Lean Thinker

AUGUST 31, 2022

Thus, education and training is but one tool used by leadership to help people clear the barriers and problems that block progress toward higher levels of performance. The content of training is as critical as the way it is delivered. As far as I can determine, the “Toyota Way” of teaching is similar to this model.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Manufacturers and distributors face a transition – they need to recruit, train, or retrain workers with the up-to-date skills needed on modern factory floors. By investing in training or recruiting employees with potential and a good learning ability employees can work towards transitioning their skills into the jobs that need to be filled.

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Logistics Business Magazine

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

STILL experts explain the benefits of the tugger train system: Across all industries, companies are faced with the growing challenge of using resources in an optimised, profitable and sustainable way in order to survive in dynamic market environments. The tugger train system is a systematic further development of this idea.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Amazon explained how it adjusts capacity for the peak shopping season, advising sellers who use its fulfillment services to get their inventory to its warehouses by October 26 in order to be ready for Black Friday, the traditional kickoff to the holiday shopping season. And the clock won’t quit ticking.”

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Shipchain

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Systems that work together can ensure that all parties in the supply chain have access to the information and resources necessary to fulfill more orders and please customers. These systems may include warehouse management systems, a transportation management system, order management system, or other cloud-based systems.

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Ship Monk

JANUARY 29, 2024

For that reason, it’s critical that when more frustrating issues like lost, damaged, or stolen orders occur, your staff is properly trained to handle them with customer service best practices. Remember, when it comes to ecommerce brand orders, there’s no such thing as over communication.

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GlobalTranz

JANUARY 30, 2015

In order to be truly accurate long term, the source data should be available for you or your provider to directly scrutinize. Proper system guides should be implemented along with individualized training to mitigate possible bad data entry. It is important to know who is providing the source data used to develop your KPIs.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 26, 2022

Additionally, they want quick turnaround times from initial order to final delivery, essentially bringing the Amazon effect to the big & bulky retail market. A common practice with big & bulky delivery is partial delivery, when the delivery of an order arrives in more than one shipment. On-site delivery experience and cost.

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GlobalTranz

JANUARY 5, 2018

Manufacturers will still need to stay ahead of their competition back home in order to survive. Your team can also charge up their iPhone 8 Plus wirelessly and share presentations or photos on a 5.5-inch Provide Ongoing Training. There’s another reason ongoing training is crucial to your business’ success.

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LandLink

MARCH 20, 2019

Challenged by the demands of e-commerce and omni-channel fulfillment, smaller orders, ever-shrinking delivery timeframes, and a persistent labor shortage, operations are in perpetual need of tools that can help them tackle these and other ongoing productivity issues.

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Logistics Business Magazine

OCTOBER 6, 2020

It’s been trending for a while actually, but the global pandemic and associated ‘stay at home’ orders, plus restrictions on business operations and occupancy of brick-and-mortar establishments has accelerated it beyond even the most hardened analyst expectations – says Tony Dobson, SnapFulfil CEO for UK & Europe.

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Logistics in War

APRIL 25, 2021

He expanded upon his presentation and provided a two part series of articles, which we put together into a single piece , which brought together his core argument. Beaumont, Director of the Australian Army Research Centre, focused on the intersection between logistics and support innovation and automation and autonomous systems.

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Talking Logistics

OCTOBER 6, 2017

I’ve never given a supply chain presentation in Spanish. Here’s a short video I recorded in Spanish highlighting the topic of my presentation: If you plan to be at the conference, I look forward to learning and networking with you. Rio Tinto Steams Ahead With First Driverless Ore Train (WSJ – sub. I’ve never been to Chile.

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Ship Monk

APRIL 23, 2024

The UN World Commission on Environment and Development defines sustainability as “development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.” Improve Inventory Management Reduce waste by improving forecasting methods to order only what you need.

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WorkWave

AUGUST 4, 2020

While descriptive data presents existing figures, predictive data allows you to draw insights from trends in your descriptive data in order to make an educated guess about what might happen next. You can also see counts of current service locations, your current bill tos, and your current recurring orders. Service Completion.

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3PL Insights

JANUARY 19, 2023

We have developed new avenues for personal development and rolled out biweekly internal training programs to support the success of all Evans associates. The portal has recently gone through several rounds of enhancements including a customer metrics dashboard that provides insight into order processing, inventory, shipping, and returns.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 4, 2024

So, a user might ask, “who is the supplier on this order.” These visual controls present the information in an intuitive and verifiable way and enable the users to dive right into the data.” There are not vast amounts of external data that are part of the training model as is the case for ChatGPT. “We’re

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Smart warehouses are using IoT sensors, powered by 5G, to automate inventory tracking and manage orders with greater accuracy. Challenges in the Transition to 5G in Logistics While 5G presents significant opportunities for logistics, transitioning to this technology is not without challenges.

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United World Transporation

JANUARY 16, 2020

Truck drivers are trained to not use the shoulder lane of a road unless they absolutely must. Experts and CMV training centers will tell you that the responsibility lies with the CMV operator to drive in a way that avoids assumptions and measures that may cause crashes. Continual Training. But this doesn’t always happen.

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Logistics Bureau

JUNE 5, 2023

If your fleet has evolved into its present scale and composition, there may be opportunities to decrease the number of vehicles you use. Use Training to Encourage Economic Driving Techniques The way your employees drive their trucks affects the quantity of fuel needed to run your fleet.

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Logistics Business Magazine

MARCH 9, 2022

The programmes will allow members to learn and execute complicated supply chain processes, enhance their knowledge of logistics tools, and prepare themselves to effectively deal with the present challenges in the industry. These training programmes can be completed at the students’ suitable pace.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 9, 2022

Suddenly, the situation changes, whether because of a new company strategy, ever-present retail dynamics or possibly due to a completely new influencing factor. Sophisticated transport networks are great in logistics, but the bottom line is how quickly an order gets moved through a warehouse. Everything is prepared.

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Talking Logistics

MAY 18, 2017

As I prepared my keynote presentation for the BluJay Solutions’ SOAR 2017 conference , I recalled this experience and saw it as a good metaphor for the difficulties many companies are having today responding effectively to the blizzard of supply chain management. I’ll share my takeaways from their presentations in future posts.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 22, 2023

Once you know where that truck (or train, plane or container) is, that’s when things get really interesting. A retailer places a make-to-order PO with an overseas factory. If you’re Walmart or Target, you put teams on the ground, in-country, to take a constant pulse of order status. In other words, visibility is an enabler.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

JULY 14, 2022

The market gap however presents an opportunity for Indonesia, a country responsible for 60 percent of global palm oil production. To address the digital skills gap, a good ERP provider should provide online training courses to ensure employees understand emerging technologies. The dark side of supply chain disruptions.

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Logistics Business Magazine

MARCH 17, 2023

Cognex will present machine vision-based solutions for automation in inbound, order fulfilment, sortation, and outbound areas at LogiMAT, the international trade fair for intralogistics solutions and process management, in Stuttgart, Germany, April 25-27th, 2023, at booth J11 in Hall 1.

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The Logistics of Logistics

MAY 18, 2022

If you look at anything, which is a physical product, something that you can see, touch, and feel, it can now be ordered online and delivered at home. Before these for a few years, we were training students into robotics. How was that organized, the training of robotics? The complexity that stays behind this.

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