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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. ISO9001:2015 provides a methodology to ensure that quality management is, and remains, fit for purpose, and is ‘owned’ not just by a QM team but by the whole organisation from the top down.

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Time for a Supply Chain Reserve Corps

10xLogistics

By now many of you have also seen the incredible Ted talk Bill Gates gave back in 2015 where he essentially predicted this COVID-19 outbreak. I highly encourage you to watch this: Here are some key points from the talk (March of 2015): The next big crisis will be from "microbes" not "missiles".

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Overproduction vs. Fast Improvement Cycles

The Lean Thinker

“Small Changes” Doesn’t Mean “Slow Changes” No matter how good your solution or idea, it is just an academic exercise until it is anchored as the an organizational norm. Copyright © 2015, Mark Rosenthal. Small changes, applied smoothly and continuously become big changes very quickly.

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When Does a Comment to Investors Become an Illegal "Signal" to Competitors?

10xLogistics

On July 18, 2015 I wrote a blog post entitled: DOJ Investigates Airlines - Are the Trucking Companies Next? airline officials repeatedly assured one another on earnings calls and at conferences that exercising "capacity discipline was good for the industry" Sound familiar? 15M is a lot more than just "nuisance" money.

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6 Quick Tips for Successful Logistics Outsourcing

Logistics Bureau

An extensive process mapping exercise, prior to supplier selection, should help to prevent this issue. Just like a process mapping exercise, providing for some change management in your outsourcing project might not be cheap, but the expense is well worthwhile. Successful logistics outsourcing is built on detail—the more, the better.

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An Optimistic Outlook for the LTL Market

Blue Grace Logistics

Some truck carriers have introduced last mile delivery services for items such as exercise equipment, mattresses, and furniture. As a result, some truck carriers such as JB Hunt, Estes and Werner have introduced last mile delivery services for items such as exercise equipment, mattresses, and furniture. Pricing and Labor.

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Where Does Supply Chain Design End and Planning Begin? (Takeaways from LLamasoft’s SummerCon 2017 Conference)

Talking Logistics

The first one arrived a few years ago when a growing number of companies started treating supply chain design as a continuous business process instead of a standalone project or a once-a-year exercise.