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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. For example, imagine your company moves 10,000 containers a year with an average contents value of $75,000.

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The Cost of Using the Wrong Mode When Capacity is Tight

Blue Grace Logistics

In a 2021 study by Inbound Logistics, logistics technology providers said that 58% of their shippers were concerned with capacity constraints, triggering 68% of shippers worried about how they were currently optimizing their transportation resources.

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Toilet paper and total war – the psychology of shortages and what it means for resilience

Logistics in War

Lessons can come from extrapolating what we witness every day; from events that capture tangible and intangible aspects of sustaining normal life. A normally stable balance of supply and demand is upset by events, with consumer behaviour in panic-buying magnifying the problem. Australian consumers are fearful.

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50 years in Sri Lanka

World Food Programme Logistics

WFP and partners celebrate the World Food Day with an important message on nutrition and diet This year, WFP and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) jointly celebrated the World Food Day (16 October) with an event that put ending malnutrition and ensuring food security and healthy diets for all at the centre stage.

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Inventory Management Excellence: Some Companies to Learn From

Logistics Bureau

It’s a random approach in which, for example, a consignment of electric blenders might find a home in a storage location between bottles of shampoo on one side, and dog collars on the other. As you can deduce from Amazon’s example, there is no standard for an optimal warehouse layout. What Next for Toyota IM?

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Supply Chain Helps Meet ESG Goals

Blue Grace Logistics

Some changes are environmental—greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and other factors contribute to climate change and an increase in severe weather events that impact the supply chain. Prasad cites an example where the system’s data has enabled a driver to run the same loop for almost two years. Others are societal. DROP AND HOOK.

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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.