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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. Perhaps most notably, CHEP , a pallet and container pooling provider, is supporting UNHCR to perform an in-depth study of its global supply chain network. Of those 60 million people, 19.5

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Managing for Daily Improvement: Bridging the Gap Across Teams and KPIs

Talking Logistics

Due to the enhanced visibility of data and metrics across peer groups, sales leads have improved their customer service by walking prospective customers through the operations process and comfortably answering any queries on how success is measured. Overall, MDI provides organizations with key takeaways and measured KPIs.

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Quality Improvement in Manufacturing: Relief for Operations Manager

ThroughPut

The opportunity to free up operational waste through data can liberate and enrich the lives of the bottom economic 50% globally is a bold mission. The number of jobs, defects, cash conversion cycle, and output targets from operations were flipped to other metrics to hit for investment into ThroughPut. Don’t get me wrong.

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Why Operations Managers & Entrepreneurs are fighting the same battles

ThroughPut

The opportunity to free up operational waste through data can liberate and enrich the lives of the bottom economic 50% globally. The number of jobs, defects, cash conversion cycle, and output targets from operations were flipped to other metrics to hit for investment into ThroughPut. Entrepreneurship was and is no different.

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Why Operations Managers & Entrepreneurs are fighting the same battles

ThroughPut

The opportunity to free up operational waste through data can liberate and enrich the lives of the bottom economic 50% globally is a bold mission. The number of jobs, defects, cash conversion cycle, and output targets from operations were flipped to other metrics to hit for investment into ThroughPut. Don’t get me wrong.