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LTL in a Post-Yellow World with Curtis Garrett

The Logistics of Logistics

Curtis is also the Founder of Understand LTL , an LTL training firm. Curtis is hosting the industry’s first live LTL Mastermind Event, November 9 th and 10 th in High Point, North Carolina. Curtis is also the Founder of Understand LTL, an LTL training firm.

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Training the Australian Army’s logistics officers – a new LIW series

Logistics in War

Logistics in War has contended with the topic of training, and the preparation of logisticians for a variety of operational and garrison possibilities. Others have been more specific to the challenge of training such as Michael Lane who describes the need for logisticians to be better prepared for the most likely events they will face.

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“95 Thesis” on Kaizen Events and TPS

The Lean Thinker

Kaizen Events. Kaizen events (or whatever we want to call the traditional week-long activity): Can be a useful tool when used in the context of an overall plan. This is independent of whether it is done in a week-long intense event or not. Classes and Courses ? If there is interest, I’ll put something together.

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The Growing Skills Gap & How Vocational Training Can Help to Shrink It

GlobalTranz

More manufacturers are turning toward vocational training and apprenticeship programs to help close the skills gap. However, some manufacturers will continue to avoid vocational programs in the interim, but they should consider the following ways vocational training will be a major player in addressing the growing skills gap. .

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Takt Time: How Slow Can You Go?

The Lean Thinker

Twice a year we had a “PT” (Physical Training, I think) test that consisted of measured performance on five “events.” ” One of those events was a 2 mile run. Also, of course, we could make up 5-10 seconds a lap if we really had to. ” *ROTC (Reserve Officers Training Corps) is a U.S.

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Another Tale from the Past

The Lean Thinker

It was Tuesday afternoon of a traditional five-day kaizen event. Monday morning had been spent training the team on the basics of “JIT” including some fundamental principles and a 1:1 flow simulation just to demonstrate some of the possibilities. Those printouts, of course, only showed output.

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COVID Has Fundamentally Changed the Profession of Supply Chain Management

Logistics Viewpoints

The toilet paper shortage was one of the COVID era events that taught people what the term “supply chain management” meant. Multinationals knew that events could occur that could cost them tens, or hundreds of millions of dollars. But these events were not predictable – they might happen, they might not.