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Quality Management Important for Warehouse Space

Logistics Business Magazine

Contrary to popular opinion the Standard is anything but a box-ticking exercise, especially in its 2015 reiteration. but by requiring the organisation to ask the right questions and to listen to and act on the answers, for example the feedback from customers and suppliers. Our experience at Bis Henderson Space serves as a good example.

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Concealed Freight Damage: NMFTA Changes Reporting Window Effective April 18, 2015

GlobalTranz

On April 18, 2015, the National Motor Freight Traffic Assocation® has amended the NMFC rules regarding the required time frames for reporting concealed freight damage. For example, if a transportation management services provider decides to extend this timeframe beyond the NMFTA® ruling, the consumer may follow the carrier specified policy.

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HBR: Managers Think They’re Good At Coaching. They’re Not.

The Lean Thinker

.” None of this, of course, had anything to do with what had triggered the tirade. example may have been a somewhat extreme case, a recent HBR article by Julia Milner and Trenton Milner titled Managers Think They’re Good at Coaching. .” As the organization matures, of course, that structure can shift.

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Preventing Cross Contact at Food and Pharmaceutical Storage Facilities

Kanban Logistics

For example, 8 items – milk, peanuts, eggs, soy, tree nuts, wheat, fish, and shellfish – account for 90% of allergic reactions in the U.S. For example, at Kanban’s warehouses, certain products can only be unloaded, stored, or transported within a designated section of the warehouse by authorized personnel.

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The Cancer of Fear

The Lean Thinker

This, of course, gets reflected in the conversations throughout the organization. Back in 2015 Liz Ryan wrote a piece in Forbes online called The Five Characteristics of Fear Based Leaders. All of this is a unconscious but focused effort to present the illusion that things are progressing according to plan. Asking for help?

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“Selling Baoli creates strong customer relationships”

Logistics Business Magazine

MV: Of course! MV: The price is of course an important factor for many of our customers, even if it is not fundamental. MV: Of course, these negotiations are very individual. For example, we provided one of our customers with a forklift truck on loan to cover their production peaks, and offered them a 2.5-tonne

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Save on Ecommerce Shipping with These Weight Workarounds

Ship Monk

If a package is large but lightweight, and the carrier were to charge by weight alone (like they all did prior to 2015), they would lose money. Of course, if your product, sans packaging, is already above the weight limit there’s not much you can do to make it lighter. You’ll have to explore one of the other cost-cutting methods.