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Toyota Kata: What If There Is No Takt Time?

The Lean Thinker

If I need to make 96 units during the course of an 8 hour day, then I need to have made 48 units in four hours. We have to attack a source of variation and work on stability. This is true in Steve’s example of an Emergency Department. Don’t Confuse the Tool with the Goal. are an example of this.

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The Advantage of Speed: The Cooper Health Supply Chain Relies Upon Real-time Risk Alerts

Logistics Viewpoints

Everything from contrast dye, to tubing, to medical devices with embedded semiconductor chips would suddenly become difficult to source. For example, when a UPS strike was looming last year, the Interos solution automatically highlighted Cooper’s strategic suppliers that relied on UPS for shipping. Of course it would!

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Autoliv’s Supply Chain Risk Management Journey

Logistics Viewpoints

Risk management solutions scrape data from hundreds of thousands of online & social-media sites, but Autoliv also has access to sources of information that they pay for. They wanted these diverse sources of information pulled together in one central, user-friendly location they call their “garage.” And we are making progress.

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Cutting Emissions Through Better Transportation Planning

Logistics Viewpoints

Transportation is, of course, a major source of green house emissions. For example, Oracle is using average emission from a 5-ton truck, or a bulk tanker. For example, if they buy a component for their hardware products in Thailand, they have an estimate for the logistics emissions associated with the component.

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Seven Theses on Ergonomics in Logistics

Logistics Business Magazine

How, for example, must future user interfaces or tools be designed? Our onsite teams only work with the best tools. They are the source of ideas and critical testers”, Johannes Schweiger says. A know-how transfer that benefits our logistics designers, design engineers, developers, and of course our customers.”

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Setlog presents OSCA software at LogiMAT

Logistics Business Magazine

In Hall 7 Booth C61, the supply chain experts from Bochum will demonstrate the IT tool’s five solutions. The tool is used by more than 150 brands worldwide. Over the course of time, specialists have further developed OSCA so that users can also manage several tiers of upstream suppliers with the tool.

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7 Tips: A Guide to Mastering Procurement

Material Handling and Logistics

With the digitization of the source-to-pay process being a key initiative for many chief procurement officers, to the inherent automation which promises to accelerate innovations such as artificial intelligence (AI), digitization is growing. Digitization is Your Friend. Digitization is your friend, but quality data is your foundation.