Logistics Bureau

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Recent studies have shown that among the challenges frustrating warehouse and distribution centre managers this year, rising energy and labour costs are two of the most often cited. We hope the tips and ideas in this article will help you make inroads into warehouse energy and labour cost reduction.

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Logistics Bureau

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

If your business is experiencing a persistent reduction in profit margins, analysing your cost to serve is an advisable step in diagnosing the causes. Some customers are very good at finding loopholes to reduce their purchasing costs. We’ll begin with a look at pricing strategy. Are Your Profit Margins Declining?

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Logistics Bureau

JANUARY 7, 2020

Supply chain strategy is critical to business success, but companies often underestimate its importance and hence pay it less leadership attention than other areas of operation. Supply Chain Strategy. In other words, the majority did not recognise the need for close alignment between supply chain and general business strategies.

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Logistics Bureau

JANUARY 9, 2019

Supply chain strategy is critical to business success, but companies often underestimate its importance and hence pay it less leadership attention than other areas of operation. Supply Chain Strategy. In other words, the majority did not recognise the need for close alignment between supply chain and general business strategies.

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Supply Chain Design Software Supply Chain Design Inventory Reduction Cost Reduction 118

The Lean Thinker

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

We had case studies, exercises, all in an effort to teach people to be better problem solvers. ” In Toyota Kata world we have reduced those questions down to the critical few in the Coaching Kata. If you don’t then you are wasting their time and your money sending them to that class.

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Logistics in War

AUGUST 18, 2019

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. In the meantime, we should study its strengths and weaknesses, and the how and why of its present design.

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The Lean Thinker

OCTOBER 13, 2020

The article, in turn, summarizes (and slightly updates) Spear’s findings from his PhD work studying Toyota. But in general the operators hurry, cut a corner now and then. To paraphrase Elon Musk, the greatest waste of time is improving something that shouldn’t even exist. Kent Bowen. What is its purpose?

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