Arkieva

JANUARY 20, 2017

Are you using lean in your logistics and transportation management? The transportation company’s culture and behavior should change to apply Lean thinking. Transportation takes time. The list of additional waste generated by transportation goes on and on. 5 Ways to Optimize Your Transportation with Lean.

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GlobalTranz

MARCH 23, 2016

Today I will discuss how a company can sustain a lean culture once they have implemented lean practices in order to achieve continuous improvement. I use a method I call managing for daily improvement or MDI. How can we Continuously Improve Daily and Sustain a Lean Culture and Behavior? Industry Week, March, 2016).

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SCMDOJO

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

It is arguably true that supplier performance management is considered a business practice for measuring, analyzing, and managing supplier performance to reduce cost, and risk and also drive continuous improvement. The questions that are most often asked are: What metrics should I use? Where do I begin?

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GlobalTranz

JANUARY 4, 2017

When it comes to the logistics industry, whether it's transportation management contracts or warehouse contracts, there are a million moving parts, and as many questions. Customer metrics. People then solve daily problems and improve processes DAILY not after they finish their “normal” work. Continuously using SOS cards.

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Unleashed

APRIL 10, 2023

Lean Manufacturing Lean Manufacturing , also known as Lean Production, is a popular process improvement technique that aims to remove waste, increase profits, and realise more efficient outputs. The key benefits of implementing lean manufacturing are time savings, cost savings, and improved quality of products and services.

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Talking Logistics

FEBRUARY 4, 2016

For companies focused on continuous improvement, MDI is the springboard to answering how processes can be improved, and LSS provides the tools to implement these improvements. These teams then can identify the root causes that created shortfalls in reaching goals and ensures that the solution is documented.

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Talking Logistics

JULY 11, 2018

Whether it’s to reduce transportation costs, centralize their transportation management, or deliver better service to customers, both parties identify a desired outcome and work collaboratively to deliver on those promises. One effective way to do this is through a process called Managing for Daily Improvement (MDI).

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GlobalTranz

OCTOBER 27, 2015

Let's talk about the outputs, or desired metrics worth measuring, in each category of what a logistics company might provide. Cerasis is squarely focused on transportation management through technology and managed services , however, there are logistics companies who offer fulfillment, warehousing, freight forwarding, and more.

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Talking Logistics

JUNE 22, 2015

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Department of Transportation’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) jointly proposed standards for medium- and heavy-duty vehicles that would improve fuel efficiency and cut carbon emissions. percent improvement.

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GlobalTranz

JUNE 11, 2015

The first post in this series broke down what is supplier quality management and the steps to evaluate suppliers and the second post gave you insight into the metrics to look out for by 6 major industries. We deal with our suppliers of transportation on a daily basis: our select carrier partners. They can talk to your Quality team.

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SCMDOJO

APRIL 11, 2023

If you’re a supply chain management professional, you’re probably aware of how important it is to continuously improve your skills and knowledge in this field. In the design of physical flows, the course shows how to formulate and solve Transportation, Transshipment, Facility Location, and Network Design Problems.

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Kanban Logistics

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

These include transportation management systems (TMS); eCommerce platforms such as Amazon, Shopify and Magento; and carrier portals (e.g., However, efficient pick and pack warehousing for B2C fulfillment requires a very different approach to product storage, picking, packing and transportation. Transportation requirements.

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The Logistics of Logistics

JULY 14, 2013

A key performance indicator (KPI) is a metric that you have chosen that will give an indication of your performance and can be used as a driver for continuous improvement. Order Documentation Accuracy. Percentage of order documents with errors. Transportation. Selecting Warehousing KPIs. Warehousing KPIs.

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Intelligent Audit

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

These often occur when there is a lack of freight auditing, poor documentation, and lax monitoring of the transportation network. Transportation and e-commerce are unique within the industry. This option continues to be a popular choice for supply chain freight payment reporting managers. Collect Freight.

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Arkieva

AUGUST 8, 2016

The Sustainable Freight Action plan released by California governor Jerry Brown outlines a long-term 2050 vision and guiding principles for California’s future freight transportation system. Targets for 2030 Include: Improve freight system efficiency 25 percent by 2030. Read Full Press Release. Read Full Article.

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Unleashed

MARCH 9, 2021

For example, industries like transportation and logistics, technology or consumer goods will focus more on supplier collaboration. That’s where Procurement Metrics and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) come into play. Procurement metrics and KPIs allow organisations to measure results and guide best practice performance.

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SCMDOJO

MARCH 7, 2023

But in case you haven’t come across it yet, let us briefly touch on what it is and its concept regarding supply chain management and what Transactional Process Improvement Kaizen really is. Kaizen is a Japanese term that means “continuous improvement.” Documentation of the future state is the first step towards implementation.

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Supply Chain Trend

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

Since then Sean has been involved in a large number of complicated, innovative but exciting projects in Australia, America, Africa and Europe for industry sectors such as FMCG, Food and Beverage, Software, Healthcare, Pharma, Defence and Heavy Manufacturing – helping to improve some very diverse Value Chains!

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GlobalTranz

AUGUST 9, 2016

For shippers, culture and behavior have to change to apply Lean Transportation thinking. The “Them (company leadership) versus Us (shop floor associates)” mentality also needs to change for Lean Transportation to " WE. The 8 Rights To Achieve Lean Transportation Practices. Transportation takes time.

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The Lean Supply Chain

AUGUST 5, 2015

It can take months to negotiate a complex SLA/KPI document, as you go back and forth with your logistics provider so the document becomes a “win-win” for both parties. Both parties will know how the partnership is moving along based on hitting the targets in this SLA/KPI document. Not everything is costs or price discussions.

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Unleashed

MARCH 24, 2024

Takt Time Takt time is a metric which measures how many units you will need to produce each day to meet customer demand, without overstocking or under delivering. To document your procedures in such a way, you would need to think about: Each step in the production process. Transportation. Purchasing excess materials.

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GlobalTranz

MARCH 18, 2015

Thus, selecting a 3PL that has an innovative, holistic approach to supply chain management will enhance your strategic goals and promote the core value of your company through continuous improvements, deep understanding of your business and the ability to add value to the 3PL services. What are the best transportation buying solutions?

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GlobalTranz

JUNE 2, 2016

It would mean joint problem solving/joint idea sessions/brainstorming continuous improvement and co-creation. If you don’t measure this partnership, you will never know how both parties are doing as to meeting the agreed upon metrics, including cost reduction efforts and continuous improvement.

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Unleashed

OCTOBER 5, 2023

It involves loading the packed items onto delivery vehicles, generating shipping labels and documentation, and ensuring that the products are sent to the correct destinations promptly. They have forks at the front that can be raised or lowered to pick up palletized goods and transport them within the warehouse.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 21, 2016

I urged him to take his corporate strategy document and set up a meeting with each profit center manager. For most companies, greater economy of scale is possible through the global management of procurement and transportation and local management of sales, manufacturing and customer service. We hope to see you there!

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Arena Solutions

MARCH 8, 2024

As soon as we have a new supplier, we can add their data straight into Arena: where they are, their mode of transport we use to get their products to our manufacturing sites. So Kate, I’d love to hear from you, what did this process look like for ProGlove as far as the iterative approach and the continuous improvements?

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 17, 2018

Nick strongly believes that it is insufficient to drive supply chain improvement through incrementalism. It is just not enough to do a software upgrade or slowly push continuous improvement projects. Completed in 2012, the ERP project forced the company to standardize organizational design, roles, and metrics. The reason?

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6 River Systems

JULY 22, 2020

In fact, warehousing accounted for the largest portion of jobs added in the transportation and warehousing sector in June, about 61,000 of 99,000 total jobs. We did this by tying metrics to their workload and included those metrics in our weekly all-hands meetings. Jeremy Owens Jeremy Owens is the CMO of Seriously Smoked.

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