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A Conversation with Vittorio Favati, TVS Supply Chain Solutions GFS

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

The experience stems from the ground up as an operator, then assuming global roles spanning Asia, Europe, and North America and the journey has been incredibly exciting and fulfilling. This recognition was in part due to the setting up of the region’s first and only physical warehouse training facility. MORE FROM THIS EDITION.

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Do You Have a Proactive Supply Chain Design or a Reactive One?

Talking Logistics

With such widespread advances in digital help both inside and outside the warehouse, the modern supply chain should naturally gravitate toward proactive design. While civil unrest could slow down production or shipments in a foreign country, natural disasters can accomplish just as much shipping disruption in North America.

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Inventory Management Strategies of 7 Successful Firms

Unleashed

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.