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The State of Logistics Podcasting with Blythe Brumleve

The Logistics of Logistics

They talk about the growing popularity of podcasts in the logistics industry and how podcasting can be a helpful tool for professionals to stay up-to-date on industry trends and insights. Blythe is the Founder of Digital Dispatch and the Host of Cyberly, an influential podcast on the Freightwaves platform.

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Predicting 2023 supply chain innovations

Logistics Business Magazine

Boosting trade is one of the most powerful tools to lift people out of poverty. But the provision of finance to smaller businesses is lagging – a problem exacerbated by the global financial crisis in 2008, which made large banks pull back from lending more broadly. If we are up to the challenge this really can be a win-win.

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Using Big Data to Drive Manufacturing Sales: 3 Big Takeaways from the USMTO Reports

GlobalTranz

Obviously, a lot of manufacturing equipment buyers wait for the show before committing to purchase and of course a lot of orders are set up to be taken at the show as well! This obviously shows how deep and terrible the recessions were, not only for US manufacturers, but for the sellers of manufacturing equipment and machine tools as well.

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Automation Hero May 2020: Ulf Larsson from Copiax

EazyStock

We have been part of the Assa Abloy Group since 2008, and I started as purchasing manager for the company back in 1999. Of course, it’s nearly impossible to accurately monitor inventory availability and minimize capital investment with such a large portfolio. What other types of automation tools do you use today?

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A Lean Leadership Pocket Card

The Lean Thinker

It was our job to teach our continuous improvement people how to do that coaching and assisting – beyond just running kaizen events that implement tools. I talked about this in a post way back in 2008: Not Just Asking Why – Five Investigations. PDCA Thinking. Today we would use Toyota Kata to teach this. Four Rules: 1.

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Kuehne + Nagel Ventures Forth with a New Global Initiative

Logistics Manager

The proverbial waves of change will still often come crashing down and it’s always best to have a course of action mapped out. In 2008, amidst a cluster group revamp for Kuehne + Nagel, I moved to Singapore to take on an operational sea freight management role. Service Minded.

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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.