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Employment Trends
Over the past few years, an increasing number of people have become employed in non-full-time roles, whether as consultants, freelancers, or part timers. If you've been swept up in this trend, rather than fighting it you may want to embrace it.
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Lean Startup Principles
Principles behind the Lean Startup may not be directly applicable to your business as a whole, but they can still be appropriate in looking at anything 'new' being developed.
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Use the 5S Methodology
The 5S methodology is an important component of continuous improvement. Joseph Wilkes, on the Manufacturing Digital site, explains what the 5S's are and what they mean.
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Omnichannel Distribution
Steve Banker and James Cooke, in a DC Velocity article, review the challenges faced by retailers in coping with the omnichannel customer. From a distribution standpoint, store locations have a lot of work to do.
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Procurement in the Future
As we've mentioned, the procurement function in the supply chain has changed and will continue to do so. Some new technologies will make its evolution even more critical.
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More Versatile Robots Needed
Robots play a key role in many large distribution center operations. However, the recent omnichannel trend in retail has exposed a need for more versatile automation.
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Procurement Changes on the Way
Procurement is continuing to evolve. According to the article by Jason Busch on Spend Matters, it's going to really change between now and 2020.
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Keep It Flowing
Keeping things moving, whether it's an order picker in your warehouse or the activities in your project plan, is a basic tenet of business. It's also one of the key principles in Lean.
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Pulling Back the Supply Chain Curtain
Issues related to supply chains have been all over the news recently, whether there's a factory fire or other disaster at foreign manufacturers that damages a known consumer brand.
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Lean Essentials
There's a lot involved in Lean, so much that it's sometimes necessary to review what the essential concepts and tools are that are critical to the approach.
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Feb 13 2013
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