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How to automate your warehouse

Logistics Business Magazine

How to automate? Let’s examine one example of this compromise keeping in mind that there can be many processes which under certain circumstances may not allow for 100% automation. The introspection about change regarding how you have done things vs. how you want to do things becomes very important.

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A Lean Leadership Pocket Card

The Lean Thinker

I was going through some old files and came across a pocket card we handed out back in 2003 or so. It was used in conjunction with our “how to walk the gemba” coaching sessions that we did with the lean staff, and then taught them to do with leaders. Stop pretending you have standards or rules about how the work is done.

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Why Is It So Hard to Find Good Help These Days?

Material Handling and Logistics

For example, the NIST demonstration shows an assembly operation. Sellers have a difficult time deciding which SKUs to locate where, and how to dynamically manage them in a changing marketplace where demand is uncertain. TOMPKINS: Sellers today find e-commerce inventory allocation and replenishment to be challenging.