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Handling a Smart Century

Logistics Business Magazine

Part of the Meijer Group, Meijer Handling Solutions has just celebrated its 100th birthday. Sjoerd was even more of a techie than his father and shifted the company’s course towards mechanical engineering and construction. Meijer Handling Solutions grew to become the world market leader in the production of hydraulic forks.

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Toyota Kata: Coaching vs a Report Out

The Lean Thinker

In other words, report out progress (like in a meeting, for example) as though you were answering a version of the Coaching Questions even though they aren’t being asked. The next step being taken, what we expect (or expect to learn) It would be really simple, for example, to format PowerPoint slides in this sequence.

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Ways to Handle Excess Inventory in Retail

ShipLilly

Of course, this is only possible with goods with a long expiry date. For example, some businesses could position themselves as the source for hard-to-find items that have not been recently stocked by most rivals. For example, companies should move away from over-purchasing even if there are optimistic projections for demand.

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TWI: Is it Time to Rethink Job Relations?

The Lean Thinker

During the war there was huge growth and turnover within the industrial base as production shifted from civilian products (locomotives, for example) to wartime production (tanks). And, Job Relations, what we are discussing here, the skill of handling people problems. The challenge, of course, is that nobody owns this material.

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Forklift Telematics Data – Vital Statistics

Logistics Business Magazine

Forklift telematics systems deliver the vital statistics data that every warehouse or distribution centre manager needs to get the most from their materials handling equipment budget. For example, how busy are they during their working day?

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From Push-Cart to Cutting-Edge Robotics: China Skips Traditional Warehouse Automation

Logistics Viewpoints

Of course, this was an exaggeration, but it illustrated his point well. “ Of course, fiber optic land lines offer greater bandwidth. Most examples of warehouse robotics adoption in China are at operations in support of domestic consumption and these examples are predominantly consumer goods retail fulfillment operations.

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Robots, Robots, and More Warehouse Robots!

Logistics Viewpoints

And almost all the large material handling vendors and systems integrators that don’t include that word in their title were also displaying bots. For example, if the system has trouble picking a particular item, an alert can tell a planner not to allow that stock keeping unit to enter the robotic picking queue.