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A Lean Leadership Pocket Card

The Lean Thinker

Throw them away if you aren’t willing to train to them, mistake proof to them and reinforce following them. I talked about this in a post way back in 2008: Not Just Asking Why – Five Investigations. Do you have “standard work” documents that are rarely followed? Simple is Best. Go and see.

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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.

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Trucking Rates Looking to Increase: The Driving Factors & What You Can Do About It

GlobalTranz

Since the collapse of the housing market and the economy in 2008, the freight transportation industry has managed to claw its way out of a damaging situation and maintain historically low trucking rates. The Bureau of Labor Statistics asserts courses to obtain a Commercial Driver’s License (CDL) last anywhere from three to six months.

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Industry View: Automated Tugger Trains Boost Ergonomics, Efficiency and Value

Logistics Business Magazine

STILL experts explain the benefits of the tugger train system: Across all industries, companies are faced with the growing challenge of using resources in an optimised, profitable and sustainable way in order to survive in dynamic market environments. The supply of materials or onward transport of sub-products takes place in the same train.

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Supply Chain Management:Importance of Proactive Master Data.

Infosys Supply Chain Management

Of course this is & will be an ongoing activity as each month some new codes get added from planning perspective, either they are new products introduced or existing products getting extended to new planning locations. We were also able to identify any specific "Training Needs" for planning community in the long run. December 2008.

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Capacity Issues? Collaborate! Aggregate! Don't Stagnate!

Blog on Log

I am up in Toronto today and tomorrow participating in a course for Transportation and Logistics' professionals. In the rail sector, the labor fallout from early retirements has restricted train crews, while track and speed constraints limit the ability to run additional capacity across existing rail networks.

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Supply Chain Management: It’s IoT Time

The Logistics Academy

Collecting data from sensors to monitor activities in real time is valuable, of course. One of those is supply chain service provider ModusLink, which is developing new applications for Poetic, an IoT platform it acquired in 2008 along with a company called Open Channel Solutions (OCS). LIFT TRUCK NETWORK.