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Analysis: Why the Biden Administration is Not Being Honest About Supply Chain Issues

MTS Logistics

In politics, it can of course be necessary at times to portray events as relatively simple in order to reach a wider audience. However, when the speech and the underlying fact sheet is studied more closely, it unfortunately contains a range of misconceptions about how the shipping industry works.

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A Lean Leadership Pocket Card

The Lean Thinker

The article, in turn, summarizes (and slightly updates) Spear’s findings from his PhD work studying Toyota. I talked about this in a post way back in 2008: Not Just Asking Why – Five Investigations. Kent Bowen. All work highly specified as to content, sequence, timing, and outcome. Go and see. Go and see for yourself.

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The Fear Trade Picks Up Steam - Don't Be Fooled

10xLogistics

These statements, of course, are designed to create the fear trade and to get the shippers to buy into a "fear premium" as they go into bid season. Another interesting statement out of the CASS reporting was that for the first time since 2008 the National Retail Foundation is forecasting a decrease in holiday sales by 2.5%

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Can Australian Manufacturing be Brought Back Home from China?

Logistics Bureau

Even when other costs such as coordination, transport, and logistics are taken into account, it still makes sense for many companies to outsource to China as onshore overall production costs would be much higher, a study of Australian manufacturing firms concludes. Access to China’s Mass Consumer Market. percent in 2019.

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5 Mini Case Studies: Successful Supply Chain Cost Reduction and Management

Logistics Bureau

The following five mini case studies explore a few high-profile companies that have managed to sustain their supply chain cost reduction efforts and keep expenses under control. In fact, during 2007 and 2008, Starbucks leadership began to have serious doubts about the company’s ability to supply its 16,700 outlets.

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Supply Chain Management:Infosys team at Pulse 2012 - Day 0

Infosys Supply Chain Management

Case Studies. |. Though I have attended all Pulse events since its inception in 2008 (last year I gave it a miss), it still looks new every year. The first Pulse event in year 2008, after MRO acquisition, was more of an extension of earlier MRO world or Maximo world event, hence was mainly Maximo focused. December 2008.

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Installing a sculpture in a public area

Logistics at MPEPS at UPV

In the 2000’s, her descendants decided to offer to the city hall of Paris a bronze print of one of her art pieces : Mon fils marin (My son sailor), and in 2008, the local administration of the 14th arrondissement of Paris agreed to install this sculpture not far from the artist’s former studio.