- 21. Amazon Fulfillment From the Inside
- (News)
- Amazon gets a lot of press, but there's a reason for that: they do a lot of interesting things. I've often wondered what their fulfillment process looked like from the inside, and CNet has provided a fantastic ...
- 22. Don’t Drive Without a Dashboard
- (Supply)
- ... dashboards, when something is not as expected a flashing light or other visual indicator lights up alerting the operator to some kind of action. Some dashboards go the next step and issue phone, pager, ...
- 23. HP Develops Network Visualization Tool
- (News)
- As a participant in a global supply chain, you know how costly disruptions can be. A major technology player, HP, has developed a visualization tool to help identify and mitigate risks.Chris Cunnane interviews ...
- 24. Building an Understandable Supply Chain
- (News)
- The design principle of being Understandable is the topic of the latest installment of Jonathan Lofton's series on supply chain design. As supply chain complexity has increased (and who hasn't seen this?), ...
- 25. Flextronics' Visual Supply Chain
- (News)
- Visual data is always a 'nice to have' in supply chains. Contract manufacturer Flextronics is a big believer, as you can see in the recent article on the Supply Chain Digest site.Their 'Jumbotron' helps ...
- 26. Mitigate Risk with Metrics
- (News)
- Scorecards have been around supply chains for quite awhile. Do people on the manufacturing floor have access to the metrics they really need, though?In an EBN article, Hailey Lynne Mckeefrey explores the ...
- 27. The Lean 3PL
- (News)
- It's obvious that if you're evaluating 3PLs to support a portion of your supply chain, you want to ensure you identify one with a 'quality' culture. But saying it's so doesn't mean it is.According to Steve ...
- 28. Will Omnichannel Transform Pricing?
- (Retail)
- ... distribution, planning, delivery, and consumer purchases to a constant online model, demand is seen differently and in much more complex patterns. Retailers need to be able to visualize the entire cycle ...
- 29. IoT Infographic
- (News)
- Infographics are great. They can present a visual that'll quickly explain the most complex technology. For example, the Smart Data Collective posts a graphic on the Internet of Things.It simply explains ...
- 30. True Happiness in the Supply Chain
- (Supply)
- ... Along the way there should be multiple happy points where hidden transactions are replaced with knowledge and confidence. In Sinur's example these happy points are what he calls "visual process intelligence." ...
- 31. Big Data Infographics
- (News)
- Pictures are worth a thousand words, that's for sure. When you talk about Big Data, there's a lot to learn and sometimes visuals are the best way to educate.Louis Foong, on the Customer Think site, does ...
- 32. Whole Body Learning
- (Management)
- ... faster and more effectively. Eyes – According to the Visual Teaching Alliance, approximately 65% of the population are visual learners. This means that they assimilate information best when ideas, concepts, ...
- 33. BOTS - An Open Source EDI Tool
- (EDI)
- ... this little application easily matches everything that I have seen in them except the visual mappers… BOTS more than makes up for that lack in mapping and process control. The application, written in ...
- 34. Visual Management and the Shared Vision
- (News)
- Visual management is one of the key tools of Lean management. In his A Lean Journey blog, Tim McMahon tells us not only what it is, but why we should be using it.It's clear that the 'shared vision' so essential ...
- 35. Looking at Re-shoring?
- (News)
- A really neat little graphic on the Visual.ly site provides some ammunition for the offshore vs. re-shoring battle.Although offshoring initially may look like an attractive proposition, there's enough data ...
- 36. The Robotic Workforce
- (News)
- Erin Lynch on the Multichannel Merchant site gives us a visual look into how an automated warehouse operates.It's pretty remarkable to see where this is heading. Check it out HERE
- 37. Manage Your Stakeholders & Manage Your Life
- (Management)
- ... key stakeholder, take a step back. Do you know the medium of communication that they prefer? How often do they prefer communication: daily, weekly, monthly? Do they prefer visual representations of the ...
- 38. It's Risky Out Ther
- (Supply)
- ... people, and process standpoint. Try to move away from a reactive model to one where you’re proactively recognizing risks and issues. The use of tools like visual management and operations dashboards ...
- 39. It's Risky Out Ther
- (Logistics)
- ... people, and process standpoint. Try to move away from a reactive model to one where you’re proactively recognizing risks and issues. The use of tools like visual management and operations dashboards ...
- 40. From the Top - Elliott Grant
- (Retail)
- ... actually extremely important versus six days old in Los Angeles. So you can really begin to visualize your fresh supply chain as a, almost a byproduct of having shoppers engaging in a marketing activity. ...
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