People Are Dying Producing Your Product – Conversation with Arche Advisers CEO Greg Gardner. This article was originally published on CSRwire Talkback, September 12, 2013.”
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Back in the early 1980s, manufacturers in America woke up to the fact that Toyota and other Japanese companies were outperforming them on quality and efficiency. They looked across the Pacific and copied the first thing they could see — rapid delivery of parts to the plant. They called it Just-in-Time and mandated it from their suppliers. Continue reading
To the majority of modern people, logistics mean transportation, that is many big trucks traveling fast even on narrow roads, and warehousing – that is, large grey buildings making panoramas quite obscene.
This view is correct, but the conventional view of logistics does not dig deeper into what logistic processes are, should be, and are intended to be. Continue reading
As manufacturers are reaping the benefits of Lean and Lean Six Sigma or other continuous improvement processes within their facilities the importance of eliminating waste still hold sway. So the question now facing these manufacturers is this:
Has the time come where Just-in-Time inventory levels need to be changed to Just-in-Case levels? With the present and at least near future volatility of the economy this may prove to be the case. The answer lies within each company’s own supply chain and decided upon based on each company’s individual requirements. Continue reading
There’s this financial guy, Ty J. Young, who opens his TV ads with the following statement, “The world has changed. Clearly it’s not the 80’s and 90’s anymore.” A truer sentiment could not be stated describing the world of customer-supplier relationships, particularly related to risk in the global supply chain. Continue reading