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Driving Continuous Improvement in Transportation Management

Talking Logistics

In this concluding episode, led by Bill Madden, Director of Managed Services at LeanLogistics , we will discuss how to drive continuous improvement in transportation management. Watch as we discuss: How to identify and prioritize continuous improvement opportunities. The post Driving Continuous Improvement in Transportation Management appeared first on Talking Logistics with Adrian Gonzalez. Live Episode: Thursday, July 23, 2015 at 12:00 ET.

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6 Game Winning Strategies for Continuous Improvement

USC Consulting Group

Continuous improvement strategy. The winningest teams are always looking to continuously improve by mastering the fundamentals and putting in the time and dedication to perform when the clock is ticking down and the next score wins.

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Lean Continuous Improvement – Key Drivers for Continuous Improvement

ThroughPut

“ Lean” is considered to be a philosophy of continuous improvement. What is Lean Continuous Improvement? Lean Continuous Improvement is defined as a method for identifying opportunities for streamlining work, reducing waste, and increasing productivity.

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Optimize Continuous Improvement with Lean Collaboration and Digital Transformation

DELMIA Quintiq

Lean manufacturing and continuous improvement programs continue to grow in importance as organizations strive to become agile and remain competitive. This is why making your lean and continuous improvement programs part of a digital transformation strategy is so important.

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Parts Town: An O2C Journey from Manual Processing to Digital Transformation

Speaker: Sarah Gibson, Platinum Operations Manager

The order-to-cash (O2C) process is often considered the lifeblood of an organization. It’s why so many business leaders are looking to next generation of O2C solutions to unlock value across their enterprise — value that’s necessary to remain competitive. Join us for an educational webinar with guest speaker, Sarah Gibson of Parts Town, as she takes attendees through her company’s digital transformation journey.

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Continuous Improvement in Logistics: A Q&A with Jason Morin

Consumer Goods Logistics

Jason Morin is Senior Director of Continuous Improvement and Engineering within KANE’s operations group. His 25 years of supply chain engineering and continuous improvement (CI) experience includes stints at multiple third-party logistics companies and, most recently, at Dematic.

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How to Use Agile for Rapid Continuous Improvement Results

Industry Star

Implementing Agile project management strategies and software enables your supply chain team to collaborate in real time, reduce human errors, and better track task progress to boost the effectiveness and shorten the timeline of your continuous improvement project results.

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Continuous Improvement in Processes

Claritum

Cut operational costs and improve efficiencies. Essentially, the use of a cloud based system, where all the stake holders have access, improves efficiencies and means more work can be done using less time and resources. Incremental improvements.

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Master the Continuous Improvement Process with the USC Playbook (video)

USC Consulting Group

Score operational excellence in your business by embracing the continuous improvement process. Enter Coach USC, who takes a page from the USC Playbook – Embracing Continuous Improvement.

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Why Continuous Improvement Is as Important as Ever

USC Consulting Group

Continuous improvement has always been an important methodology for businesses looking to remain competitive; but now more than ever, it has become essential to face the challenges presented by the novel coronavirus. What is continuous improvement?

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5 Ways CPG Companies can Appeal to Conscious Consumers

DELMIA Quintiq

Consumer Goods Consumer Packaged Goods & Retail Continuous Improvement Sustainability Sustainable Supply Chain Challenge consumer conscious cpg CPGR sustainable

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How Can Supply Chain Leaders Use Big Data as a Tool to Continuously Improve?

GlobalTranz

Supply chain leaders must be ready to implement big data and leverage it to improve their companies without any delay or inhibition This may sound impossible and frightening, but they must only understand how big always goes back to these two, simple principles of measurement, review, and action. Previously, these entities only needed to focus on their local demographic for ensuring continued stability. But the possibilities for continuously improving.

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Embracing Continuous Improvement: Strategies for Organizations Seeking Sustained Advancement (eBook)

USC Consulting Group

By embracing continuous improvement. Whether you’re in chemical processing, mining and metals, life sciences or food and beverage, continuous improvement is a must for every industry and is more of a lifestyle than it is a mindset.

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Put on Your “There Has to Be a Better Way” Glasses: Driving Continuous Improvement in Transportation Management

Talking Logistics

Everybody agrees that driving continuous improvement is important, especially in transportation management, but in many cases, companies are so consumed with their day-to-day activities that it’s difficult for them to find the time for it. Continuous improvement has to be embedded in your company’s culture,” Bill added. Episode Highlights Transportation Management accrual reporting Bill Madden continuous improvement LeanLogistics transportation management

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Looking to Grow Post-COVID? Think Operations Efficiency and Continuous Improvement

USC Consulting Group

But growth in a post-COVID era is also going to be about focusing on operations efficiency and continuous improvement. Even more than hiring, efficiency and continuous improvement will be crucial to what comes next. Continuous improvement matters now.

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Supply Chain 2030: Forge a New Path

Supply Chain Shaman

Our goal is to build a guiding coalition to think differently to improve outcomes. Today only 12% of supply chain teams are driving improvement, performing better than their competitors and driving value (as determined by Price to Tangible Book Value). It cannot be about incremental improvement. It is clear that new outcomes cannot happen through a focus on traditional continuous improvement programs.

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How TMS Analytics Can Lead to Actionable Insights & Continuous Improvement

GlobalTranz

“What can you do to improve your company?”. That is a loaded question, loaded with innuendo, desire, financial concerns, questions about the state of the road and weather and much more, but the ways you improve your company are becoming easier to see. Modern, cloud-based analytics systems within transportation management systems ( TMSs ) have redefined how you strive for continuous improvement. Analytics may also be used to drive improvement in your equipment.

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6 Benefits of Applying Useable Data in Logistics For Continuous Improvement

GlobalTranz

We continue our series on strategic shipping by going into detail of the 10 main areas that shippers can turn to in order to have a strategic logistics and transportation management mindset. Today we will go into detail on using the available data created in the processing of shipments within transportation management and other related logistics management for continuous improvement. . Data can help you improve your transportation processes when applied correctly.

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How to Achieve Outcome-based Continuous Improvement

QAD

Manufacturers, more than any other sector, know they must continually improve their operations. Most embrace continuous improvement. Lean and Six Sigma provide the most recognizable frameworks for continuous improvement.

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The Journey to the Factory of the Future

DELMIA Quintiq

These manufacturers are on the factory floor continuing to build, construct, create and prepare. Their need is urgent and the vision for a better tomorrow continues. While most people are staying home during the COVID-19 pandemic, many are on the front line.

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KaiZen (Continuous Improvement)

The Lean Supply Chain

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The Return of Demand: How Aerospace & Defense Can Prepare for the Next Normal with Virtual Twins

DELMIA Quintiq

A lack of data continuity and visibility in manufacturing operations led to the inability of many A&D companies to pivot and make fast and optimal remedial decisions.

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Continuous Improvement, Artificial Intelligence, and DDMRP

Demand Driven Technologies

Decades of Lean and continuous improvement initiatives have profoundly changed the way many companies operate.

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Creating Continuous Improvement Within Transportation

Kuebix

Continuous improvement programs are important for reducing waste within your transportation processes – and overall business environment. Continuous improvement is defined as “a method for identifying opportunities for streamlining work […]. The post Creating Continuous Improvement Within Transportation appeared first on Kuebix.

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Why 9 out of 10 companies don't achieve sustainable results in their continuous improvement process.

Aioneers

Almost every production company has a continuous improvement process: an army of people is constantly working on improving operational KPI’s, like, for instance, Overall Equipment Efficiency (OEE).

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What is Kaizen (Continuous Improvement) in Manufacturing?

Unleashed

In business, it refers to a mindset of continuous improvement through small and gradual improvements. The idea is to make minor changes that over time create notable improvements to the end product. What is Kaizen?

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Webinar: MRO Best Practices: Introducing a Continuous Improvement Program

Synovos

Plant management often struggles in developing a strategic approach to how those parts and services should be managed, missing opportunities for efficiency gains in process improvements. In this recent webinar hosted by Plant Services magazine, Don Shoemaker, Synovos Vice President of Engineering & Consulting Services, looks at the MRO supply chain from the plant’s perspective in recognizing how implementing a continuous improvement strategy can address some of those core issues.

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8 Steps to Continuous Improvement

TrackVia

Process Improvement with TrackVia. As a process improvement professional who has used TrackVia for over 10 years, I’ve concluded that: (1) My processes perform better with TrackVia, and (2) TrackVia performs better on improved processes. Process Improvement without TrackVia.

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How Cloud PLM Ensures Continuous Improvement in Product Development

Arena Solutions

Not only did I learn about their advanced energy storage products, but I also discovered there’s always room for improvement in the product development process. We didn’t fully appreciate how Arena PLM could improve product development until recently,” Chad continued. “We’ve

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Continuous Improvement, Procurement and Logistics

Logistics Viewpoints

I spoke to Carl Fowler, the Vice President of North American Sales and Engineering at Menlo Logistics, on the topic of continuous improvement and procuring warehousing services. Carl Fowler The question I had in mind was this, suppose you know that your warehousing operations were not what they should be and you wanted a 3PL […]. Logistics Service Providers Procurement Warehousing

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Continuous Improvement, Procurement and Logistics

Logistics Viewpoints

I spoke to Carl Fowler, the Vice President of North American Sales and Engineering at Menlo Logistics, on the topic of continuous improvement and procuring warehousing services. Carl Fowler The question I had in mind was this, suppose you know that your warehousing operations were not what they should be and you wanted a 3PL […]. Logistics Service Providers Procurement Warehousing

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What’s Wrong with Continuous Improvement Programs in Logistics?

Consumer Goods Logistics

There’s a lot of that going on when it comes to programs for continuous improvement in logistics. Lip Service. According to Merriam-Webster, it’s a belief “expressed in words but not backed by deeds.”. Some companies do quite a good job presenting the image of a quality-driven operation. But too often the banners, slogans and award certificates – the eye candy – don’t translate into real cultural change. Supply Chain Challenges Logistics Innovation Lean Warehousing

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Lean Manufacturing and Continuous Improvement

synchrono

It almost seemed hackneyed: Lean manufacturing and continuous process improvement. Yet this intentional, ongoing process of improving services, and procedures to improve flow, customer satisfaction, quality, safety, and profit means nothing without metrics. Improvement must result in a corrective action. They are a proven system of metrics developed based on decades of working with manufacturers on Lean and continuous improvement initiatives.

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E-Commerce Continues to Add Focus on Omnichannel Supply Chain Strategies: Projections for 2018 Demand Continuous Improvement

GlobalTranz

Demand for E-Commerce and Integration of Supply Chains Will Continue to Dominate 2018 As explained by Derek O’Carroll of Multichannel Merchant , some driving forces behind the demand for omnichannel supply chains include: The creation of social storefronts. The post E-Commerce Continues to Add Focus on Omnichannel Supply Chain Strategies: Projections for 2018 Demand Continuous Improvement appeared first on Transportation Management Company | Cerasis.

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The Best Time to Kick Off a Continuous Improvement Initiative

synchrono

Prosperity is perhaps one of the greatest obstacles to continuous improvement in manufacturing. When things are going well, we don’t feel the need to make improvements quite as keenly. There really is no better time to make improvements than when things are going well. Then, I will explain why now is the best time to kick your continuous improvement efforts into high gear. Paper: 4 Ways SyncKanban eKanban Technology Drives Continuous Improvement.

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Harvesting Rainwater at Americold

Americold

Environment Continuous improvement cold storage supply chain temperature-controlled supply chainOctober is National Energy Awareness Month, and we’re marking the occasion by highlighting a unique program within our resource management strategy – rainwater harvesting.

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3 Ways to Put Big Data to Work in Your Factory

synchrono

In this post, I’ll cover the three ways you can use Big Data to improve operational performance. #1 2 Continuous improvementContinuous improvement is the cornerstone of any Lean initiative and has become a best-practice throughout the industry, even in those organizations that don’t consider themselves Lean. Is enthusiasm for Big Data wavering? In 2015, McKinsey Global Institute claimed that the IIoT had the potential to create as much as $3.7

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