The Lean Thinker

DECEMBER 21, 2017

On the one hand, the practice has become more sophisticated as people explore and learn application in contexts other than the original industrial examples. That book provides working examples of vertical linkage between organizational strategy and shop floor improvement efforts. Study the Process’s Operating Patterns.

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Talking Logistics

JUNE 5, 2017

Take BMW as the latest example. What is happening to BMW today is another case study in supply chain risk management. For related commentary, see my June 2015 post, Time to Survive and Nexus Supplier Index: New Measures of Supply Chain Risk Management.]. Here’s an excerpt: Is your supply chain best-in-class? Total Answers 11.

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Logistics Bureau

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Thus, if you find out that an expensive transport solution (courier for example) is routinely being used to deliver a low margin product to a customer, you’ll understand that much better if the end result for you turns out to be a loss. Customer-specific services. Returns management. The Value of Knowing Your CTS.

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Airfreight Logistics

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

The survey shows a growing number of online shoppers of 3% and 4%, comparing to 2015 and 2014 respectively. Another study published by the UK’s Office for National Statistics (ONS) suggested that buyers spent about £1 billion a week with online UK retailers in February of 2017. It helps workers to deliver safe and accurate operations.

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Logistics in War

OCTOBER 16, 2017

4] Individual service studies and those of partner allies back up the same thesis. [5] For example, the US Army’s Multi-Domain Battle White Paper states, ‘adversaries will also exploit perceived U.S. For example, the US Army’s Multi-Domain Battle White Paper states, ‘adversaries will also exploit perceived U.S.

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Freightera

MAY 26, 2017

What I would like to present today is there’s an industry perspective on how we can actually – using market mechanisms, immediately reduce gas emissions on the range of 20 to 30% easily and then a longer-term perspective get out to low and zero emission freight. This is data from the carbon footprint study from the OECD.

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247 Customs Broker

APRIL 5, 2018

Gilmore Says… In a great example of the balance in this book, Sheffi notes the actual evidence of consumer preference for Green products is tenuous at best. Most sustainability books in my view do not present the full 360 view. What do you say? . Editor’s Note: .

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247 Customs Broker

APRIL 19, 2018

An off-cited analysis from McKinsey in late 2017, for example, found automation could destroy as many as 73 million US jobs by 2030, about one third of all jobs in the country. For example, in a story I remembered that we ran in 2014, a company called Parkdale Mills had recently re-opened a factory near Gaffney, SC that now produces 2.5

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Automotive Logistics

APRIL 11, 2019

I think political uncertainty, and where this will take the economy, is the biggest risk, but it looks at the moment as if OEMs that are already present are going to stick with Turkey,” says LMC’s Thomas. The FT quoted a 2015 study estimating the cost of all this border friction at around €3 billion ($3.4 Luc Nadal, CEO, Gefco.

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Freightos

OCTOBER 26, 2020

After a rough 2015, the first half of 2016 was no different. In the weeks following the Damco brand subsumption, DB Schenker released a press release that referenced the Damco changes: “The last thing shippers need at present is further uncertainty”. The Maersk Shift: Where it started. For Maersk, June of 2016 was the breaking point.

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Automotive Logistics

AUGUST 20, 2018

The rise came off the back of a healthy 2016 as carmakers such as Renault and PSA Peugeot-Citroën returned to the market following an international agreement at the end of 2015 to relax sanctions. The best-selling car, for example, is the Saipa Tiba/Saina, followed by the Saipa Pride, the latter based on the long discontinued Kia Pride.

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247 Customs Broker

APRIL 18, 2018

Such is Andela’s stellar reputation for excellence that American TV network CNN in June 2015 called it “the startup that’s harder to get into than Harvard”. Although the Dubai example is perhaps a long shot, the promoters of Smart City Lagos are right to aim that high. An example is Lara.ng

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