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How Shippers And Logistics Providers Can Keep The Relationship Fresh

Talking Logistics

What key metrics should they be driving for as an organization? Implement a Continuous Improvement Methodology: To help support the pursuit of optimizing performance in both the short-term and long-term, the 3PL should employ a continuous improvement approach, such as Lean Six Sigma (LSS). What are their pain points?

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Consumer Demand Helping Drive 3PL Industry Growth

Talking Logistics

3PLs are being asked by shippers to create better metrics to provide both added understanding and a deeper perspective as to what’s occurring inside their business both yesterday, in real time and tomorrow. Mr. McGuigan joined Transplace during the acquisition of SCO Logistics in April 2011, where he was President and CEO.

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The Current State of Bottleneck Management and What Companies Need to Do to Improve

ThroughPut

This was as true as in hydraulic fracturing in 2011 as it was in managing telecommunications finished goods inventories in 2019. They think in terms of lean six sigma, which is a more generalized accreditation that mistakenly encourages its practitioners to primarily focus on the quality side, instead of the process step elimination side.

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What Entrepreneur Media Wouldn’t Publish about ThroughPut: Why Industrial Operations Bottleneck Elimination is the World’s Greatest Mission

ThroughPut

This was as true as in hydraulic fracturing in 2011 as it was in managing telecommunications finished goods inventories in 2019. They think in terms of lean six sigma, which is a more generalized accreditation that mistakenly encourages its practitioners to primarily focus on the quality side, instead of the process step elimination side.

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VTech: A Story of a Supply Chain Leader

Supply Chain Shaman

I followed his journey during the period of 2006-2011, and wanted to check in with him to gain his insights on the selection of VTech as a finalist in the Supply Chains to Admire research. Over the period of 2009-2015, only 88% of companies made improvement on the Supply Chain Metrics That Matter. Let me give you a simple example.