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Order Planning and Batching (Chapter 3)

Camelot 3PL Software

The rest of this chapter will be discussing how to efficiently organize orders that are deemed “Ready to Process”. Batching orders together is a base principle of eCommerce fulfillment, and batching similar orders together is a key to improving efficiency. This is an important factor in batching.

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What Conversations Does Your VSM Drive?

The Lean Thinker

I outlined the typical scenario – the map is built by the Continuous Improvement Team, and they are the ones primarily engaged in the conversations about how to close the gap between the current state and the future state. When a shop is behind, the management reflexes are (1) increasing batch sizes and (2) expediting.

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Mobilisation in the Information Technology Era

Logistics in War

This is the exciting world of three-D printing where production batch sizes can be small or on-demand without impacting production efficiency. Whether any particular groups are supportive of Russian policies is irrelevant, the aim is instead to drive them to being more confrontational towards others.