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

GlobalTranz

In the first quarter of 2015, the number of American hours worked (a proxy for the number of workers) grew at a 1.5 Prior to ITIF, Adams was a student at Washington University in St. Louis, where he earned an M.A. Factors such as technology and capital investment let workers produce more than they could on their own.

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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. The LCC is now of course a standard logistics practice today. P&G first implemented the approach with Schnuck’s Markets in St. First Thoughts.

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Nursing Hospital and Healthcare Supply Into a New Age

Logistics Bureau

On the one side there is the medical aspect, which calls for various specialised logistics approaches , and on the other, the hotel/catering aspect. Centralisation then, is all about taking procurement and logistics out of the hands of medical professionals and placing it under its own governance structure.