Benefits of Warehouse Slotting
Product Slotting is defined as the intelligent location of product in a warehouse or distribution center for the purpose of optimizing material […]
Author: Lawrence Loucka
Lean Sigma Tools for Supply Chain, part 1
Not all of the lessons from Toyota and Motorola translate well into health care, project management, product development, services but many easily […]
Paper Modeling for Supply Chain Optimization
Whenever doing any kind of analysis its tempting to start loading up the tables or spreadsheets and start slicing and dicing only […]
Warehouse Photos
While warehouses rarely make a contribution to architecture, they fill an important role in the supply chain. Here’s a collection of warehouses […]
Lean Six Sigma Certification Game
A friend and colleague, Bill Bentley, writes about the use of professional certifications in the recruiting industry. I had a long talk […]
Forget the 80/20 Rule
In the late 1800s, economist and avid gardener Vilfredo Pareto established that 80% of the land in Italy was owned by 20% […]
Trucks and Trucking Photos
“The little four-wheelers live on risk. They endanger themselves. They endangered us. If you’re in a big truck, they’re around […]
Shipping Container Photos
Containers, cargo, ports, ships, industry… all that gray, steamy, rusty, stinky but at the same time fascinating stuff. If you […]
A cynic’s view of Lean Six Sigma
The Scratching Post has a jaded but honest collection of views of how movements become evil or how half enlightened fanatics can […]
Fractal Project Management
by Dave Jenkins So, we’ve all disparaged Waterfall software development as overly cumbersome and simply undoable in today’s go-go world. Agile came […]
Green and Lean
Combining the questions of green and sustainability with the application of lean thinking to supply chain and logistics I offer these current […]