Logistics Management - May 1, 2006
Cover Story
What does "lean" really mean?
Imagine that you are an automaker, and that three American customers have ordered blue cars with black seats and four Canadian customers have ordered white cars with red seats. The orders arrive while the factory is holding just enough red seats and black seats, blue paint and white paint, and car bodies and power trains to assemble the seven cars and ship them out that same day.
- Columns
- Bohman on Pricing
- North American B/L may finally be adopted
- North American bill of lading has finally been adopted
- Byrne on Excellence
- Supply Chain Outsourcing: More Choices, Tougher Decisions
- Parting Shot
- RFID could put the "zig" and "zag" in supply chains
- Viewpoint
- Explore the language of "lean"
- Departments
- Management Upate
- Management Update
- New Products and Services
- Updates for global trade management software
- Electric lift truck offers better control
- Price Trends
- Pricing Across the Transportation Modes
- Price Trends
- Features
- Global Logistics
- Paying for Protection
- Supply Chain Technology
- Smarter, faster, cheaper
- Transportation Trends
- Drafting a new blueprint for intermodal
- Warehouse and DC
- Forklift safety is serious business
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