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Savvy Supply Chain Leaders Aren’t Letting a Good Downturn Go to Waste

Logistics Viewpoints

These are the companies and leaders that aren’t letting a good downturn go to waste. A famous 2010 HBR article, “Roaring Out of Recession,” studied how 4,700 public companies fared during the recessions of 1980, 1990, and 2000. Let’s not waste it. 17% went bankrupt, went private, or were acquired. Reduced working capital.

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Rowing Across the Pacific With TGAL’s Ocean Freight Services

Trans Global Auto Logistics

Simon Evans, an executive at an IT consulting firm, has taken part in plenty of rowing and cycling sporting events. Numerous studies have found the ketogenic diet to be very effective in patients that do not respond to anti-epileptic drugs. Plastics have toxic chemicals that harm both marine and human health.

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A Lean Leadership Pocket Card

The Lean Thinker

The article, in turn, summarizes (and slightly updates) Spear’s findings from his PhD work studying Toyota. It was our job to teach our continuous improvement people how to do that coaching and assisting – beyond just running kaizen events that implement tools. Kent Bowen. The path for every product is simple and direct.

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SupplyChainTechTrends: Is blockchain coming of age?

The Logistics Academy

The solution enables the real-time exchange of original supply chain events and documents through a digital infrastructure, or data pipeline, that connects the participants in a supply chain ecosystem. They can also see the status of customs documents, or view bills of lading and other data.

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Preparing for preparedness – how should we begin?

Logistics in War

When capability and attitude are misaligned, and where understanding is deficient, it is inevitable that the investment of time, effort and resources into military readiness is wasted. Part Two offered examples where militaries get it right, and a number of examples where events did not transpire as well as they might.

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Preparing for preparedness – how should we begin?

Logistics in War

When capability and attitude are misaligned, and where understanding is deficient, it is inevitable that the investment of time, effort and resources into military readiness is wasted. Part Two offered examples where militaries get it right, and a number of examples where events did not transpire as well as they might.

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Every Shipment Matters With Jim Waters

The Logistics of Logistics

This gives you the ability to set parameters and get real-time alerts on conditions like temperatures and shock and detailed documentation on the activity of your package en route to where it should be. Did it have a shock event? On Sunday night, these guys showed up at work and they realized they had wasted $70,000 worth of food.