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Fashion Transparency: China to Germany

Logistics Business Magazine

When it comes to manufacturing high-quality fashion, Walbusch Group relies on Polymax Group, among others. Three stories, large windows, white facade: From the outside, the Polymax Group factory in the Chinese coastal city of Ningbo could also be located somewhere in Germany. He feels at home in China.

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What is a “Socio-Technical System?”

The Lean Thinker

The work also met every definition of “difficult, dirty and dangerous.” When “trams” (coal carts) were in short supply, for example, the “trammers” would horde carts to optimize their team’s performance at the expense of other teams being limited by the number of carts available.

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TWI: Is it Time to Rethink Job Relations?

The Lean Thinker

During the war there was huge growth and turnover within the industrial base as production shifted from civilian products (locomotives, for example) to wartime production (tanks). Transactional Relationships within a work group This model embeds some tacit assumptions including: If everyone does their job, we get the result we want.

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Amazon’s operating strategy during the Virus

Logistics at MPEPS at UPV

1 The impact one Amazon For FBA sellers, they have sufficient inventory, which is the most benefited seller group in this virus, they are basically not affected by this virus . For example, looking at the current situation, the concept of health is becoming more and more popular. Order with the factory in advance.

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No Warehouse Left Behind

Logistics Business Magazine

This is the mission statement espoused by Jos de Vuyst, CEO of stow Group, at the launch of Movu Robotics, formerly known as stow Robotics. With a large existing client base for its racking, storage, silo and rack clad products stow Group is well-positioned to sell and integrate robotics and automation technology. It can scale-up fast.

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The Power of the Network: ERP vs. Spend Management

Logistics Viewpoints

By ARC’s definition, when a business spend management solution is used for direct procurement it is an MSCN. For example, one of the key decisions that a manufacturer needs to make is should they continue to buy goods from one of their suppliers. For example, are you still a minority owned company?

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KPIs to assist manufacturers and distributors with supply chain challenges

SYSPRO Smarter ERP

Freight bill accuracy : Whether shipping from factory to warehouse, or to the customer, this metric helps identify problems in billing operations. The definition of “on-time” can vary depending on the shipping method and if partial deliveries occur but should be based upon the agreed date.