Supply Chain Shaman
MAY 1, 2014
I dusted off a 2002 presentation from P&G to share with the audience. Yet, the attendees wanted to discuss Lean warehousing. As a result, scanning has grown in importance. Late-stage postponement and effective in-country labeling and tracking is essential. Aggressively Get and Use Channel Data.
6 River Systems
MAY 8, 2020
” However, as we saw in China after SARS in 2002, it’s possible that ‘normal’ won’t quite look like what we’re used to. Trying to “lean out” our supply chains has been the mantra for ages. What might our world resemble in a few months? But have we taken too radical a view when it comes to inventory levels?
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Talking Logistics
NOVEMBER 10, 2015
From 2002 through today, the Consumer Price Index has increased 35.5 Leveraging more technology, such as warehouse automation, is one way to manage rising labor costs. His company raised pay rates from $10 to $14 per hour in the warehouse, but OS&D (over, short, and damaged) costs decreased by 50 percent!
Talking Logistics
APRIL 10, 2019
Virtually all of those startups disappeared by 2002 — they either burned through all of their investment money or were acquired by bigger fish. In Toyota’s case, the customer is the company’s manufacturing plants, which run in a lean, just-in-time environment where every minute of downtime is very expensive.
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