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How To Survive The Decline in Warehousing Capacity

Blue Grace Logistics

As manufacturers are unable to identify the lead time for deliveries, they are creating a buffer stock scenario where they can meet demands. There are numerous technology options to identify the lead times required to meet delivery deadlines. Batch Size and JIT.

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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.