Supply Chain Optimization Benefits
Supply chain and logistic networks consist of locations – suppliers, plants, warehouses, and customers – and the product transportation between them. Network […]
Category: Supply Chain
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Green or Green Washed?
Green or Green Washed? 7 Lessons in Green Supply Chain in China By Rebeca Kanthor Ma Jun is one of China’s most […]
Optimizing the Green Supply Chain
Be proactive or wait until you are forced, it’s your choice. LLamasoft’s Supply Chain Guru has capability to map and model […]
Cheat Sheet – Warehouse Productivity
Fork-Truck Pallet Movement Lower Range Upper Range Units Counterbalanced 10 15 pallets/hour Narrow-aisle Reach 8 20 pallets/hour Man-up Turret 12 20 pallets/hour […]