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Filling orders from an inventory of 69,000 parts sounds anything but simple. Yet the folks at Future Electronics' new DC insist their workers could do it with their eyes closed.
Even the best-designed distribution systems may harbor traps that rob them of their highest performance potential. Here's how to find—and avoid—those velocity traps.
The prophets of lean turned the manufacturing world on its ear. Now they want to do the same for distribution—with just a roll of masking tape and a stopwatch.
While the other young go-getters were clawing their way to the top in the world of finance, Bill Hutchinson saw a wide-open opportunity in the unglamorous yet game-changing world of logistics.
The mark of a successful logistics operation—one that gets the stuff where it needs to be, when it needs to be there, damage free and at a good price—is that nobody notices.
Though we've all heard about college dropouts who have earned mega-millions, they're the exception, not the rule. Many of the best things in life take time, and education is one of them.
Until recently, "lean" principles have mostly been applied to manufacturing processes. Only a handful of companies have applied the concept to their supply chains.
In a lean distribution operation, the men and women working in the warehouse seek out the waste in everything they do, eliminate it, and then do it again.
If reverse logistics were simply a matter of easing the pain in the retail and wholesale sectors, it would be challenge enough. But there's a lot more to reverse logistics today.