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How the Coronavirus is underscoring the relevance of Global Supply Chain throughput: From the Frontlines of Yokohama, Milan, and Southern Florida

ThroughPut

Logic would say that a visible American tech startup should be staying put in Silicon Valley, cancelling all international commitments with Italy, Japan and other international contacts, and waiting to let the coronavirus situation play-out. I’ll start with Japan. So I took a red-eye flight from New York City to Tokyo.

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The History of the Shipping Container

Freightos

Did You Know That … Early examples of intermodal containers include railroads from 1830s (various sized containers), and Pennsylvania Railroad regular container service (1929). US Army uses the “Transporter” container, developed four years earlier for removals, for Korean War supply movements. Significance.

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Sustainable Food Waste Management for Food Industry SMEs

Unleashed

Food waste can be caused by inadequate processing, production waste, poor food handling, perishability factors, environmental events, loss during transport and harvesting, or because food simply doesn’t make it past the farm gates. What is food waste management? This has resulted in swill-fed pork being marketed at a premium.

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[INFOGRAPHIC] The History of Shipping Containers

GlobalTranz

As a logistics service provider, focusing on over-the-road surface transportation management solutions via technology and managed transportation services, we find the following information on the history of shipping containers of great significance to the logistics and supply chain community at large. Did You Know That …. Significance.

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ThroughPut Inc. Appoints World-Renowned Just-in-Time, Lean & Kaizen Expert Mr. Takao Sakai to Executive Advisory Board

ThroughPut

While he performed technical consulting for Toyota Motor, Honda sent many of his fellow workers into the company for the purpose of establishing an automobile industry in Japan. These concepts are technically complex and hard to translate often outside of Japan. Those that Kotaro Honda advised were called Honda School Leaders.

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World-Renowned Lean & Kaizen Expert Mr. Takao Sakai joins ThroughPut Advisory Board

ThroughPut

While he performed technical consulting for Toyota Motor, Honda sent many of his fellow workers into the company for the purpose of establishing an automobile industry in Japan. These concepts are technically complex and hard to translate often outside of Japan. Those that Kotaro Honda advised were called Honda School Leaders.