By: Michael Koploy, Guest Blogger Michael Koploy is an ERP market analyst at Software Advice, a free online resource for wms software. On the February 1, Wanted Analytics posted some ...
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Today’s Top Jobs in Logistics
By: Michael Koploy, Guest Blogger Michael Koploy is an ERP market analyst at Software Advice, a free online resource for wms software. On the February 1, Wanted Analytics posted some great numbers for those in manufacturing, logistics and the supply chain: in the past 90 days, almost 50,000 jobs were posted online, up 24% over [...]
Hear What Participants Are Saying About The Lean Supply Chain Certificate Program
“The Lean series at Georgia Tech has given me the tools needed to apply lean principals at my organization.” “I am only half way through the series and I am already able to apply the principals and tools I have learned back at my company.” There’s no doubt the Lean Supply Chain Certificate Program is [...]
Watch the FREE Lean Supply Chain Webinar From GA Tech Online Now
Click to watch the webinar. To become a Lean Supply Chain Professional, we must grow our skills in three areas: Lean Problem Solving, Lean Supply Chain Application, and Lean Leadership. In this free one-hour webinar now available online, you will be introduced to: Lean problem solving through the use of problem solving tools to eliminate [...]
Lean IT: How To Improve Your Software Development
Be a Better Developer Being on the software development side of LeanCor, it is important to have structure to your code. Something that we as developers do to maintain our code is practice DRY. DRY simply means “Don’t Repeat Yourself.” Rushing is a common problem that can occur when balancing emergencies and standard projects. It’s [...]
Measuring the Bottom Line: How to Calculate a Lean Fulfillment Stream’s ROI
“There is no line item on my balance sheet for ‘lean.” – Paul Kaufman, CFO, Slumberland Furniture. I am one of the lucky lean logistics managers on-site at my customer’s facility. My customer intuitively (From the President to the CFO) understands the value of improving the Lean Fulfillment Stream. At LeanCor, however, it’s very important [...]
LeanCor and Georgia Tech Kicking Off 2012 With Lean Supply Chain Certificate Series, Free Webinars
Building on the success of their first two years, LeanCor and the Georgia Tech Supply Chain & Logistics Institute will continue the Lean Supply Chain Professional Certificate Program this March. Course 1: Building the Lean Supply Chain Problem Solver: March 13-15, 2012, September 18-20, 2012 Course 2: Building the Lean Supply Chain Professional: April 10-12, [...]
Simplifying Landed Cost Modeling Series Part 3: Outputs & Interface
One of the most difficult aspects of creating our cost models can be the design of the outputs and the user interface. What to display on the outputs, how to display it, and how the user affects these outputs can make or break the effectiveness of your cost model. It is easy to make these [...]
Building a Lean Fulfillment Stream Wins Shingo Research Award!
Building a Lean Fulfillment Stream has won the The Shingo Research and Professional Publications Award! The award is given to authors for their writing on operational excellence and promote and recognizes new knowledge and understanding. Awards are given in four categories: (1) books (monographs), (2) published articles, (3) case studies, and (4) applied publications/multimedia programs. [...]
The Logistics Bridge Model
Both Lean and Six Sigma lend distinctive disciplines and tools to supply chain management and logistics. Using these disciplines and tools will allow an organization to uncover and deal with wastes and inefficiencies. Although Lean and Six Sigma tools are very powerful, we need to remember that for Lean and Six Sigma to work in [...]
Lean Assembly: A New Hire’s Appreciation For Poka-Yoke
For the past few weeks, I have been working on a project where I learn automotive processes in order to document standard work so that each activity is precisely described by motion, time, task sequence, and minimum inventory required to conduct the activity. The only problem is that I have never worked on an automotive [...]
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