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The Supply Chain Impact of Europe’s Refugee Crisis

Kinaxis

According to a recent UNHCR report , nearly 60 million people were forcibly displaced in 2014 from countries such as Iraq, Eritrea, and Afghanistan. On September 5, 163 metric tons of relief supplies arrived via air shipments, including 86 tons of high-energy biscuits, 30,000 blankets, 25,000 sleeping mats, and 1,000 solar lanterns.

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Quality Improvement in Manufacturing: Relief for Operations Manager

ThroughPut

For Europe, operations are now resuming from the extended production breaks. The number of jobs, defects, cash conversion cycle, and output targets from operations were flipped to other metrics to hit for investment into ThroughPut. The only real metric that ticks for an Entrepreneur is burn rate. Fall has begun.

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Why Operations Managers & Entrepreneurs are fighting the same battles

ThroughPut

For Europe, it is almost time to resume activities from the extended production breaks. The number of jobs, defects, cash conversion cycle, and output targets from operations were flipped to other metrics to hit for investment into ThroughPut. The only real metric that ticks for an Entrepreneur is burn rate. Don’t get me wrong.

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Why Operations Managers & Entrepreneurs are fighting the same battles

ThroughPut

For Europe, operations are now resuming from the extended production breaks. The number of jobs, defects, cash conversion cycle, and output targets from operations were flipped to other metrics to hit for investment into ThroughPut. The only real metric that ticks for an Entrepreneur is burn rate. Fall has begun.