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What is Just in Time Manufacturing? Benefits & Disadvantages

Unleashed

Just-in-time (JIT) manufacturing is a production management approach that helps you lift efficiency and streamline your operational processes. What is just-in-time manufacturing? The just-in-time approach contrasts with just-in-case strategies, where producers hold sufficient inventories to absorb maximum market demand.

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Just Jump

Supply Chain Shaman

At the time, many business leaders did not know how to type and had no idea how to use a computer. At the time, many business leaders did not know how to type and had no idea how to use a computer. Training ensued, and the expectation of changing work was shared. My job was redesigning work to improve effectiveness.

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Cardinal Health’s Perfect Implementation

Logistics Viewpoints

94% of US and Canadian healthcare systems use Cardinal Health in one capacity or another. Supply Planning Implementations are Just Harder The previous SCP implementation had not gone well. Supply Planning Implementations are Just Harder The previous SCP implementation had not gone well. I put my name on the line.” Count them!

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The Age of Agility: Building Resilience in the Supply Chain

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

Major businesses have had to completely re-consider previous supply chain strategies that were largely centred around lean manufacturing, just-in-time delivery and reducing operating costs. The Age of Agility: Building Resilience in the Supply Chain. Feature Article by Anthony Beavis, Managing Director APAC at Körber Supply Chain.

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Capacity Planning Software – Plan, Analyze and Prepare for capacity

ThroughPut

What is Capacity planning software? Capacity planning software is a programmable solution that helps manufacturing organizations understand the actual production capacity needed to address fluctuating demands for its products and services. How much capacity buffer is needed for those?

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This Week in Logistics News (September 9 – 15)

Logistics Viewpoints

In other Amazon news, the company has adjusted its Fulfillment by Amazon (FBA) seller capacity for the peak season. As part of its preparation, it offers most sellers higher estimated capacity limits for October. However, most sellers will also see lower estimated capacity limits for November. “In

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Polycrisis, Antifragility, and What’s Missing from Digital Transformation

Logistics Viewpoints

There’s an older term now being applied to supply chains for this capacity: antifragility. I’m sure of this: achieving antifragility in a time of polycrisis cannot be done with outdated, manual systems and processes. A polycrisis may not be able to be prevented or predicted, but we can be prepared by getting better each time.