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Toilet paper and total war – the psychology of shortages and what it means for resilience

Logistics in War

Lessons can come from extrapolating what we witness every day; from events that capture tangible and intangible aspects of sustaining normal life. A normally stable balance of supply and demand is upset by events, with consumer behaviour in panic-buying magnifying the problem. Australian consumers are fearful.

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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. The article, in turn, summarizes (and slightly updates) Spear’s findings from his PhD work studying Toyota. Kent Bowen. All work highly specified as to content, sequence, timing, and outcome. PDCA Thinking. Four Rules: 1.

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Making the military prepared and resilient – logistics, supply-chains and problems within

Logistics in War

In 2003, as the US Army sped through Iraq, it was the tightening noose of an extended supply chain – one that many believed should be lean before the conflict – which forced an operational pause on the way to Baghdad. months’, with smaller-scale contingencies around 10.6

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Analytics in Supply Chain Management Becomes Central As Coronavirus Escalates

IoT World Today

And while during the SARS epidemic of 2002 and 2003, China represented 4.3% Another Statista study indicated that 44% of retailers expect delays and 40% expect inventory shortages given coronavirus disruptions on the supply chain. The good news about that is these were changes they were going to have to make in any event.”.

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55 Supply Chain & Logistics Experts You Should Follow on Social

The Logistics of Logistics

Stiefel Center for Trade Policy Studies at the Cato Institute in Washington, D.C He’s a widely-published economist whose in-depth and event-driven research and analysis covers international trade policy, the global logistics industry, and industrial supply chains. . economic forecaster of the year in both 2003 and 2014. .

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Suggested Reading continued.what to avoid, unless you are stuck in O'hare!

Blog on Log

Reengineering the Corporation: A Manifesto for Business Revolution” by Michael Hammer and James Champy (Collins, 2003) Publisher’s blurb: “This book leads readers through the radical redesign of a company’s processes, organization, and culture to achieve a quantum leap in performance.” Good luck.

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Limping to war

Logistics in War

Similarly, a RAND report highlighted that while the US Army was nominally ready for Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2003, there were real limits to the time in which high-intensity operations could be sustained – luckily, these limits were not tested.