Starboard Navigator is a reasonably priced cloud-based application for designing and optimizing supply chain logistic networks. Creating products, customers, facilities, lanes is […]
An executive asked my opinion about having his staff all read Good to Great by Jim Collins (2001). It’s been years since […]
Euclides Coimbra latest book recently made it to the top of my reading list. Kaizen in Logistics & Supply Chains is a […]
Euclides A. Coimbra and his associates at the Kaizen Institute have created a wonderful and detailed work on the application of continuous […]
Hot off the press from the Lean Enterprise Institute … Page 12 & 13 have a brief description of Coefficient […]
Combining the questions of green and sustainability with the application of lean thinking to supply chain and logistics I offer these current […]
Hot off the press, written by plant manager Brett Wills, with first hand experience on the challenges faced trying to move an […]
In most warehouses the material handlers travel empty more than 60% of the time. Long pick paths and poor product placement can […]
Supply Chain design studies often target understanding the impact of new sourcing options such as switching suppliers, opening or closing facilities, new […]
When asked recently to recommend reference books on Kanban here’s what I came up with… Kanban for the Shopfloor is a straightforward […]
Five Frogs are sitting on a log. Four decide to hop off. How many frogs are left?* It doesn’t take much for […]
Check out Annals of Medicine: The Checklist by Atul Gawande in the Dec. 10. 2007 edition of The New Yorker for an […]