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What is Lean Retail (+ Why Retailers Must Embrace It)

ToolsGroup

Whereas retailers once purchased merchandise largely based on the gut instinct of trend-savvy buyers and the push of whatever manufacturers tried to sell them, nowadays, they need to take a much more customer-focused and data-centered approach. What is Lean Retail? The impact of lean retail on supply chain management.

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Lean Logistics: Improving Efficiency in the Supply Chain

Unleashed

Lean logistics is a strategy designed to optimise supply chain efficiency by cutting out waste and maximising customer value. In this guide to lean logistics: What is lean logistics? This approach to supply chain management is a child of Lean Thinking – a business methodology that originated in Japan in the late 1980s.

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8 Examples of Kanban in Lean Manufacturing

Unleashed

Here we give you eight real-world examples of how businesses use Kanban, a popular lean tool that’s helped companies in a huge range of sectors improve efficiency – especially those in the manufacturing industry. Kanban came from the same place as the wider principles of lean manufacturing: Toyota. Table of Contents.

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Achieve Seamless Material Flow in Industrial Equipment with Material Synchronization

DELMIA Quintiq

Self-aware software driven systems: Having a smarter, more connected system supports autonomous equipment to improve production performance. Leveraging the right solution, industrial equipment companies can achieve this by targeting one of the weaker links in the value chain: the gap between production and warehouse management.

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Warehouse Cost Reductions: 3 Understandings Driven By Inventory Management & Lean Principles

GlobalTranz

This is the second part of my series on various ways to reduce overall costs as it relates to logistics and warehouse cost reductions. Today, I will now address how a focus on inventory will allow for warehouse cost reductions as well. A Focus on Inventory Control Begets Warehouse Cost Reductions. First, data integrity is vital.

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Dancing in the Ring of Fire

Supply Chain Shaman

His organization purchased an advanced planning technology from well-known best of breed provider, and the implementation should have been successful, but it was not. The focus by Anne, the CIO, is on the deployment of an outdated ERP system purchased five years ago. Anne is a lean disciple and sees all inventory as Muda.

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Revolutionizing Warehouse Operations: Unleashing Efficiency and Trimming Labor Costs

RFgen

When seeking to improve efficiency and optimize cost, solution-focused mobile technology can accomplish both. Warehouse operations can meet this challenge head-on with an emphasis on trimming labor costs and implementing warehouse efficiency measures across their operation. In fact, U.S. labor costs have risen 5.1%