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TWI: Is it Time to Rethink Job Relations?

The Lean Thinker

The TWI Job Relations course emphasizes the importance of supervisors having “good relations” with their people, and giving supervisors the basic skills they need to develop and maintain those relations is clearly the objective of the course. Are you comfortable with this definition of “good supervision?”

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Digital Transformation Journey in Supply Chain Planning

Logistics Viewpoints

You need to accept that data will NEVER be 100% clean and consistent or maintained promptly. Instead, the goal should be to focus on maintaining the inputs to ensure you are getting realistic insights and recommendations. . Maintaining all past and future promotional events in a database. Having accurate stock-out data.

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Focus on people drives success for Utz Group

Logistics Business Magazine

Seven technicians maintain and repair machinery at the company’s factory in Alfreton, Derbyshire – which recently took delivery of its tenth injection-moulding machine – while four employees in the toolroom produce and service tools to meet production requirements. One of the apprentices at Georg Utz Ltd is Shaun Batty’s son, Finley.

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Executive guide to ERP Part 6: The operation stage

SYSPRO Smarter ERP

With unbalanced dimensions, the business can work but it takes more energy to maintain and the risk of something going wrong is much higher. To prevent these problems from happening requires a clear and definite strategy to enable organizations to maintain the business benefits of the ERP system.

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What is a “Socio-Technical System?”

The Lean Thinker

The work also met every definition of “difficult, dirty and dangerous.” The study I am citing here was commissioned to determine why. And people tend to assume that once it is working, it will continue to work so long as it is maintained to be kept in the same condition. Productivity plummeted.

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How Corona has Changed Shopping Behaviour

Forto

A study by Forrester Consulting and Bloomreach shows that around 50% of customers have ordered products online for the first time, products they had previously bought only in bricks-and-mortar retail stores (such as food). Nevertheless, a Kantar study predicts that e-commerce will emerge from the Corona crisis as a major winner.

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Best Delivery Route Planner Apps for 2023

WorkWave

Using delivery routing apps is a definite time saver, so drivers go to the nearest drop-off location first, then the next nearest, and the other stops further out. Delivery Proof An app for delivery routes maintains compliance with your delivery policies and acts as a safety net if customers claim they did not receive a delivery.