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Driving the Mission with Graig Morin

The Logistics of Logistics

Since 1998, Graig has been fully involved in the transportation industry. For the past 19 years, Graig has dreamed of owning and operating a driver friendly transportation and logistics company. Graig takes a pragmatic entrepreneurial approach to helping solve your transportation needs.

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Supply Chain Leadership Driving Industry 4.0 & Resilience During Crisis – LogiSYM July 2020

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

The philosophy of lean, triggers us to look for the “Ideal Way”. For companies not adopting lean, Peter Hines’s Six Rights seems to be a good start, which are Right Product, Right Place, Right Time, Right Quantity, Right Quality, and Right Price. Arguably, it is criticised that acting too lean can cause breakdowns in crisis.

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Collaboration? When It Comes to Cash-to-Cash, We Don’t Know How to Walk the Talk

Supply Chain Shaman

All industries operate today with more inventory than in the pre-recessionary period of 2004-2007. In lean terms, we have too much muda (waste) and too little inventory working for us. The average is twenty-five days. The average company operates with almost a month more inventory than fifteen years ago.)

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The Knichel Logistics Story with Kristy Knichel

The Logistics of Logistics

Since taking over as president of her company, Knichel Logistics , in 2007, Kristy has been the driving force behind their yearly growth and reputation as one of the top service providers within the IMC community growing her business to 84 million. For 18+ years, Knichel Logistics has transported goods for America’s largest corporations.

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QAD Solutions Guide: Offering Overview

QAD

The QAD solution offering has expanded beyond the original QAD MFG/PRO (1984-2007) software to now include a full-featured suite of integrated software solutions to manage manufacturing, financials, operations, customer and supply chain processes. Transportation Execution. Transportation Execution. Transportation Analytics.

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Unpacking Supply Chain Traceability: A Comprehensive Guide

RFgen

Raw Material Tracking Traceability from the raw materials stage through the consumer tracking stage enables lean manufacturing and gains in productivity. This includes tracking the transportation of the product, the conditions under which it was transported, and any potential issues that may have arisen during the transportation process.

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Reflections, Thank-you(s) and Rethinking the Future

Supply Chain Shaman

As growth slowed post 2007 recession, companies fought back. While the push in the back office was for efficiency–larger batch sizes, transactional processing, lower costs of transportation, and labor arbitrage strategies (Many companies outsourced the back office to India.)–the World Trade Intensity and Annual Growth.