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Manufacturing Labor Productivity: A Vital Metric to Spur for American Manufacturing to Compete

GlobalTranz

Two weeks ago the Bureau of Labor Statistics handed down some pretty dismal news for American manufacturing—news that was largely overshadowed by the façade of job growth numbers. Yes, American manufacturing is adding jobs. And that’s very dangerous, especially because that decline extends to the manufacturing sector.

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The Top Dozen Supply Chain Innovations of All-Time

Operations and Supply Chain Management

April 23, 2015. Given my focus on this topic here in 2015, I thought it would be appropriate to repost that list, which I think is a good one. 10: Taylorism: In the late 1800s, the great Frederick Taylor takes the first scientific approach to manufacturing. The LCC is now of course a standard logistics practice today.

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Nursing Hospital and Healthcare Supply Into a New Age

Logistics Bureau

Orders are typically placed by different factions within a single facility, and fulfilled by multiple manufacturers, wholesalers and distributors. On the one side there is the medical aspect, which calls for various specialised logistics approaches , and on the other, the hotel/catering aspect.