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What’s Good for Consumer Goods Manufacturing?

USC Consulting Group

We find that trends, challenges, economies and other factors can affect those tides, but tried-and-true operating methods can right the ship every time. If you would like to learn more about SIOP, download our (free) eBook, “ Sales, Inventory & Operations Planning: It’s About Time.” Lean Six Sigma.

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How Medical Device Manufacturers Can Overcome Disruption to Save Lives

USC Consulting Group

” As medical device manufacturers know, the FDA has strict compliance requirements that affect every part of the process from designing to manufacturing to testing to shipping, even labeling. Six Sigma is a newer methodology designed to tackle defects in manufacturing. In those processes, there can be room for improvement.

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Do You Have a Proactive Supply Chain Design or a Reactive One?

Talking Logistics

While civil unrest could slow down production or shipments in a foreign country, natural disasters can accomplish just as much shipping disruption in North America. Even Canada, a country that’s not exactly famous for shipping disasters, was virtually cut in half by a single unexpected bridge collapse in 2016. To Sum It All Up.

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23 warehouse pros reveal the best ways for warehouses to control & reduce fulfillment costs

6 River Systems

It’s also very efficient, meaning it will allow your employees to process more orders on a hourly basis with virtually impossible odds of shipping the incorrect products to your customers. Dave is a Certified Master Black Belt, subject matter expert and trainer in Strategy Deployment and Lean, Six Sigma design.

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Like A Green Lump of Clay….

Supply Chain Shaman

To see the what I built, check it out on SlideShare or view/download it in the SCI Community ). For mature supply chain organizations, it is a natural extension of six sigma. There were 250 attendees signed up and I needed to adapt. We rescheduled my flight and I quickly put together some slides for the presentation. (To

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VTech: A Story of a Supply Chain Leader

Supply Chain Shaman

Download the app, and listen when you get a chance.). It took us three years to right the ship. Very early on, I made it mandatory for all supply chain leaders to study Six Sigma to a green belt level. This podcast is available on our website , itunes and on Sticher. We want to help and drive new insights.

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Navigating Automotive Disruption: Eliminate Bottlenecks in your Supply Chain and Lean-out Operations to free-up Working Capital for R&D

ThroughPut

Development cycles for new models have also been compressed by aspiring entrants, both new and foreign, while with Over-The-Air (OTA) software updates now download new features, functionality, and refined interfaces to existing cars and trucks regularly and without a trip to the dealer, nor a new model upgrade. With Industry 4.0