In case you don’t regularly check our News Roundup section on Logistics Viewpoints, here are some important developments that occurred this week:
Hours of Service (HOS) trucking rules are back on the drawing board. After years of legal challenges, the “final” rule was published last November. But earlier this year, Public Citizen, Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety, the Truck Safety Coalition, and the International Brotherhood… Continue reading
Task interleaving is an advanced productivity practice enabled by leading warehouse management systems (WMS) with task management engines. Task interleaving is designed to reduce deadheading—i.e., when a worker, for example, picks products and drops them off at a dock and then returns to the picking area without performing any useful tasks along the way. In most operations, some workers are dedicated to picking, while others are dedicated to put-away. Task… Continue reading
That is the title of the workshop I will conduct next week at The Logistics & Supply Chain Forum organized by Richmond Events. The content of my presentation is based on numerous case studies and end-user interviews I’ve conducted over the years (Ace Hardware, Frito-Lay, HJ Heinz, International Paper, Wausau Paper, and others), as well as interviews with some of the leading technology and service providers in this area… Continue reading
I recently spoke with key members of Ford’s service parts supply chain and IT organization in North America to better understand how the company is using SAP’s end-to-end service parts supply chain solution (SAP is an ARC client). Ford and Caterpillar Logistics, as key customers and partners, have helped SAP to build out this solution, particularly in the area of service parts planning. Ford has implemented service… Continue reading
The authors of Freakonomics, Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner, have a new book out (SuperFreakonomics) and they were featured this past Friday on ABC’s 20/20 news program. Climate change was among the topics covered in the book and the television program. You can watch excerpts of the program here (parts 3 and 4 are the most relevant).
Many of the points the authors raised… Continue reading
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