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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. If there is interest, I’ll put something together. Every tool, technique, etc.

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Supply Chain Design: A Tool to Help Maximize Value

Logistics Viewpoints

Moreover, this exercise might need to be repeated several times depending on how the war proceeds. For example, we can have “Texas Small Volume” customers and “Florida Peak Season” customers, or “East Coast High Margin” customers and “Carolinas High Priority” customers. Their time frame was short and resources limited.

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The Counter to Constant Supply Chain Volatility Is Pervasive Visibility and Industry Collaboration

Logistics Viewpoints

The surging Delta virus, devastating floods in China and Germany and cyber attacks on South African ports are amongst the latest in a series of events that continue to send shock waves throughout the system. In light of all of this, I’d posit we can no longer look at the events of the last year as an aberration. The impact?

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Freight Procurement is a Different Game

Logistics Viewpoints

That processing event determines when the goods need to be delivered to the next stop. It was quickly determined that a procurement event was necessary just to set a baseline. Procurement ran a request for proposal event. Any shipment moving from Siloam Springs to Bentonville, Arkansas, for example, would be one lane.

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SEC Group delivers IMHX sustainability zone

Logistics Business Magazine

It is no longer enough to ‘green wash’ your company’s environmental performance or treat issues such as diversity and inclusion in the workplace as another ‘box ticking exercise’. IMHX 2022 group director, Rob Fisher, comments: “In business,?sustainability?refers sustainability?refers

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Preparing for preparedness – how should we begin?

Logistics in War

Part Two offered examples where militaries get it right, and a number of examples where events did not transpire as well as they might. In the Australian example, this ratio has featured in every review of Defence undertaken in the forty years since the ADF was formed.

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Underwriting preparedness – considering the logistics of the future preparedness system

Logistics in War

Behind every major warfighting exercise, such as the recent Exercise Talisman Sabre or the successive multinational exercises underway in Europe , the logistics system is tested. The establishment of an efficient logistics system for one scenario may be viewed as a significant compromise when other problems are considered.