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Toyota Kata: Coaching vs a Report Out

The Lean Thinker

In other words, report out progress (like in a meeting, for example) as though you were answering a version of the Coaching Questions even though they aren’t being asked. The next step being taken, what we expect (or expect to learn) It would be really simple, for example, to format PowerPoint slides in this sequence.

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The Great Import Slowdown: When Will Shipments Bounce Back and Return to Normal?

MTS Logistics

For example, even earlier this year, every importer was scrambling to find container space at premium levels and bring goods into the U.S. at all costs to meet order demand from large retailers and consumers. Overall, the import slowdown is a typical and healthy cycle, as witnessed in 2008-2009 and 2014-2015. The Slowdown.

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Looking Forward to an Innovative 2021 for Retail

Logistics Business Magazine

Edward Hutchison, Managing Director of BITO Storage Systems , applauds the UK Retail Sector for meeting 2020’s challenges and looks forward to supporting it through innovative intralogistics installations in 2021. This represents the largest annual increase since 2008.

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3PL Logistics Companies Up Services to Continue to Meet the Needs of Shippers

GlobalTranz

When the housing market collapsed in 2008 , the US and global economies went into a tailspin. For example, the Cerasis Rater enables rapid reporting, tracking of KPIs, and review of asset-allocation quickly and easily. Stocks plunged, layoffs became normal, and shippers scaled back operations in favor of surviving the collapse.

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Which is better for fleet assets? Contract or spot freight?

FreightWaves SONAR

In regard to the freight situation between 2008 and 2016, Trucking info.com noted how rates evolved from “since the bottom of that recession, contract prices have averaged a 1% quarter-over-quarter growth (annualized). The data analyzed within today’s freight market goes back to the beginning of digital transformation. Consider this.

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Thomann expands music logistics centre

Logistics Business Magazine

The Austrian company started to automate the Versand-Center-Süd (VCS – Shipping Centre South) in Treppendorf as general contractor in 2008. During the expansion, TGW modernised the WMS in order to meet the complex requirements of the music supplies retailer. Long-time intralogistics partner of Thomann is TGW Logistics Group.

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Logistics industry delivers HGV simulator to Zambia

Logistics Business Magazine

Four big names from the transport and logistics sector have come together to supply an HGV driver training simulator for the Industrial Training Centre (ITC) in Zambia, which Transaid has partnered with since 2008 to help meet the country’s growing demand for professional driver training.