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Sustainability and due diligence laws force action

Logistics Business Magazine

Companies are increasingly considering how to implement circular economy strategies so that fewer products need to be destroyed. Managers must have a handle on “batch size 1” production and delivery, master the returns business, and have a last-mile solution in place. New legislation is driving the pace.

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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. The Russians have always thought deeply about military affairs and how to exploit technological developments and changes in the character of war.

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How To Survive The Decline in Warehousing Capacity

Blue Grace Logistics

Batch Size and JIT. Manufacturers have also shifted to running smaller batches with adjusted schedules to meet the ever-changing demand. The post How To Survive The Decline in Warehousing Capacity appeared first on BlueGrace Logistics. Implementing JIT (just in time) programs have been common practice recently.

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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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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. There are various ways to decide when an order is “Ready to Process”.