Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 29, 2021

Earlier in his career he managed large-scale supply chain projects for manufacturing and distribution organizations in food and beverage, retail, consumer goods, and automotive industries. Justin is a certified Lean Six Sigma Black Belt, and he holds an MBA from the Katz Graduate School of Business at the University of Pittsburgh.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Earlier in the pandemic, we wrote about how forecasting demand is still the biggest supply chain question mark, especially for companies in industries like Retail, Consumer Goods, Pharmaceutical, or Food Production. Inventory Management.

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Talking Logistics

AUGUST 3, 2017

For years, consumers have had bottles of water or dog food delivered each month to their homes. For example, will there be continued widespread adoption of online purchases of groceries, or will people still be willing to go to a brick-and-mortar store in order to see and feel their food before buying it? DTC isn’t new.

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USC Consulting Group

APRIL 18, 2023

In the food processing industry , the name of the game isn’t necessarily doing more with less, although that’s a powerful goal. Government regulations give the food industry a little wiggle room between the expected quantity of any given item and the actual quantity. Companies that process shelf-stable foods can use too much water.

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BlueYonder

APRIL 28, 2021

Take me for example: I started my professional life studying Electrical Engineering, and then moved through Nuclear Power and Manufacturing Operations before landing in a Lean Six Sigma role that brought me deeper and deeper into the process orientation and end-to-end thinking that epitomizes a supply chain professional.

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GlobalTranz

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Forecasting Cost : Food, fashion, and retail all have seasonal turnover. For instance, if the customer and employee feedback show that product quality issues are prevalent, Lean Six Sigma has to be improved. Decreased Competitiveness : In the age of e-commerce , everyone is competing for customers.

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USC Consulting Group

JANUARY 4, 2022

They employ methodologies like Lean Six Sigma, SIOP, the Five Ms and other tactics to uncover what’s bedeviling your operation and create ways to solve those problems. Operations consultants will first look at your current operations model, systems and day-to-day processes of getting the job done.

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SCMDOJO

JUNE 21, 2023

Furthermore, industries such as food, hospitality, construction, infrastructure, and even government sectors are gradually adopting SCaaS for improved outcomes. This partnership improves inventory management, particularly for medicines with limited shelf life, utilizing dedicated storage facilities.

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USC Consulting Group

JANUARY 10, 2022

They employ methodologies like Lean Six Sigma, SIOP, the Four Ms and other tactics to uncover what’s bedeviling your operation and create ways to solve those problems. Operations consultants will first look at your current operations model, systems and day-to-day processes of getting the job done. Anything but.

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Supply Chain Opz

JUNE 1, 2014

The secret behind its supply chain success is the use of Six Sigma approach. They studied how General Electric (GE), DuPont and Honeywell implemented six sigma. The products are categorized by the temperature (frozen, chilled, room temperature and warm foods). Tesco is one of the prominent retail stores in Europe.

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synchrono

MARCH 19, 2018

In turn, these flawed plans translate into all sorts of issues: expediting orders, late nights, increased overtime, missed deadlines, angry salespeople, angrier customers, inflated inventory levels, blown budgets, tense meetings in the executive conference room and bland food diets to prevent your indigestion from turning into a full-blown ulcer.

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SCMDOJO

JULY 26, 2023

The Founder (2016) “The Founder” chronicles the true story of Ray Kroc, a persistent entrepreneur who turns a small drive-in restaurant in California, owned by the McDonald brothers, into the global fast-food empire known as McDonald’s.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

MAY 28, 2022

In these times of global turmoil, there are five (5) important megatrends shaping supply chain innovations in the coming years, namely in e-fulfillment, sourcing, food and agriculture, labour intensive operations, and halal supply chain management. Marco Tieman – CEO, LBB International. Halal logistics and supply chain management.

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CH Robinson Transportfolio

MAY 5, 2015

Understanding the temperature of a package throughout transit provides significant value to customers seeking six sigma quality logistical processes, like food distributors and drug manufacturers.

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Requis

JUNE 25, 2020

Think of the carriers who have switched to food and beverage delivery, versus something like automotive plants, some of which have been shut down for months. Susie has earned her Lean Six Sigma Green Belt, Lean Leader Certificate, ScPro Level One Certification from CSCMP, and is a Lean Supply Chain Professional and Prosci Change Practitioner.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 11, 2014

Food and Beverage Company Performance on the Supply Chain Index for the Period of 2006-2012. We built these into continuous improvement programs such as Lean Six Sigma, while also setting goals to drive breakthrough cost savings to supplement continuous improvement savings.

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Logichain Solutions

OCTOBER 8, 2018

Besides logistics and transportation companies, industries like pharmaceutical, cosmetics, automotive, aeronautics, and food & beverage, are other early adopters of the newest developments in IoT. They are therefore embracing the advancements in IoT technology. Challenges of IoT.

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Logichain Solutions

OCTOBER 8, 2018

Besides logistics and transportation companies, industries like pharmaceutical, cosmetics, automotive, aeronautics, and food & beverage, are other early adopters of the newest developments in IoT. They are therefore embracing the advancements in IoT technology. Challenges of IoT.

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Logichain Solutions

OCTOBER 8, 2018

Besides logistics and transportation companies, industries like pharmaceutical, cosmetics, automotive, aeronautics, and food & beverage, are other early adopters of the newest developments in IoT. They are therefore embracing the advancements in IoT technology.

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Logichain Solutions

OCTOBER 8, 2018

Besides logistics and transportation companies, industries like pharmaceutical, cosmetics, automotive, aeronautics, and food & beverage, are other early adopters of the newest developments in IoT. They are therefore embracing the advancements in IoT technology.

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Logichain Solutions

OCTOBER 8, 2018

Besides logistics and transportation companies, industries like pharmaceutical, cosmetics, automotive, aeronautics, and food & beverage, are other early adopters of the newest developments in IoT. They are therefore embracing the advancements in IoT technology.

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Arena Solutions

JUNE 15, 2021

Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued 422 citations or observations (i.e., Other common tools include Six Sigma, lean, and total quality management. Compliance issues can create significant barriers for medical device companies looking to bring new products to market. In 2020 alone, the U.S. Document Control.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 11, 2018

We installed new racking with over 32k locations, installed a new WMS using the latest technology created all new processes with pick faces and over flow locations, used six sigma tools to drive fool-proof processes and trained up the local team on RF guns and the new processes. We did it all in 6 months and $400k less than budget.

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ThroughPut

JUNE 3, 2019

Innovation and IT are usually at the bottom of the food chain for Industrial Organizations, regardless of how valuable their R&D discovery may seem initially. But if you have never done sales, whether a product or service, to your external customers, then how exactly do you expect selling internally to work?

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SCMDOJO

MAY 18, 2023

They have revolutionized numerous sectors, ranging from travel and food to childcare. Muddassir is a Six Sigma black belt and founded the leading supply chain platform SCMDOJO to enable supply chain professionals and teams to thrive by providing best-in-class knowledge content, tools and access to experts.

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Unleashed

JULY 23, 2023

Food manufacturing KPIs Food manufacturers are especially encouraged to track specific production KPIs as the urgency of customer orders and perishability of food stock mean inefficient processes can be costly. Yield Yield is a food manufacturing KPI that helps to identify and reduce inventory waste.

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USC Consulting Group

JANUARY 7, 2020

Whether it’s business transformation, lean six sigma, process improvements or business process management, these methods are all designed to help businesses reach a little farther and dig a little deeper in terms of becoming better than they were yesterday, a month, or a year ago. Technology: Automated intelligence.

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6 River Systems

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

Paul is a highly experienced supply chain leader, with a 20-year background in supply chain management including the delivery of more than 60 consulting projects in the retail, defense, automotive, food, utilities and mining sectors. Doug Orlove. Doug Orlove is the VP of Operations at Amify. He holds an M.B.A.

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Arena Solutions

MAY 25, 2021

Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Compliance. Other common tools include Six Sigma, Lean, and total quality management. Other ISO standards related to QMS include: ISO 13485 (QMS for medical devices). ISO 14971 (Risk management for medical devices). ISO 9004 (Continuous improvement/guidance to achieving sustained success).

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Arena Solutions

AUGUST 4, 2021

Today, organizations have adopted newer approaches to quality management, such as Six Sigma and lean manufacturing. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Compliance. This led to the adoption of total quality management (TQM), which served as the basis for quality and operational excellence in the United States.

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Kinaxis

MAY 24, 2018

Dana stated that leading supply chain organizations such as Amazon are looking for disruptive skills such as Lean/six-sigma, SQL, project management, R, Perl, and Python in addition to the core supply chain skills, as compared to lagging organizations primarily looking for ERP and excel skills.

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Unleashed

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Since 2004 Samsung has also been using the Lean Six Sigma method, which is a management technique aiming at sustained improvement of manufacturing processes through statistical & financial analysis. The five key steps of Lean Six Sigma are define, measure, analyse, improve and control – usually referred to as DMAIC.

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6 River Systems

JUNE 26, 2020

For example, this is especially true in food products where product innovation can be difficult because you’re ‘blocked’ from accessing the restaurants and kitchens using your products at the end of the supply chain. It’s not just this way in food, but also in many other industries. How to solve it?

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