Plant Services: What Manufacturers Can Learn from Great Chefs
There’s only one chef that is in charge of purchasing and ordering the ingredients, arranging shipment, receiving and unpacking the meats and vegetables, and managing storeroom inventory, plus the meal preparation. Her name is Mom. As for top restaurant chefs,…
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Lean Production has its Roots in Kanban
Lean Production has its roots in Kanban – a scheduling system for JIT production developed in the early 1950s by Taiichi Ohno, an industrial engineer at Toyota. Our company, Kanban Logistics, took its name from this system because of our…
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New Rules for 3PL eCommerce Fulfillment
Amazon, with its 100+ fulfillment centers, has set the bar for consumer expectations on fulfillment time, cost and accuracy. Many of the etailers who compete with Amazon have actually chosen to use Amazon’s distribution arm, Fulfillment by Amazon, to fulfill…
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Aerospace Logistics Services: Check out Video
There are literally millions of different parts in a single airplane. For example, the Boeing 787 Dreamliner is made up of about 2.3 million parts, from “fasten seatbelt” signs to jet engines. Think about the complexity of this inbound supply…
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What East Coast Ports (and 3PLs) Make Sense for your Imports?
Labor strife at West Coast docks and the expansion of the Panama Canal to handle large, post-Panamax vessels have led importers to look at shifting more import shipments to East Coast ports. But which port? The Port of Virginia, consisting…
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Right to Work States: Locating Your Logistics Site in North Carolina
What’s the least unionized state in the country? According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), the top spot goes to North Carolina, with less than one in 50 employees holding union memberships. This same BLS analysis, summarized by a…
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East Coast Logistics to Thrive After Panama Canal Expands
If you import products from Asia, the most significant shipping event in 2016 will be the completion of the Panama Canal expansion. The upgrades will double the capacity of the Canal and allow it to serve post-Panamax shipping vessels, which are the…
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Looking for an East Coast Warehouse? Consider Eastern NC.
If you are looking for the best location for an East Coast warehouse, Eastern North Carolina offers some pretty compelling advantages. Lower costs. Market studies have shown that our labor and space rates are lower than other East Coast warehouse markets…
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Improve productivity in manufacturing: 4 things your plant workers should NOT be doing
Busy executives have personal assistants not because they can’t do the things their assistants do – like pick up the dry cleaning and get the car washed – but because they want to free up time to focus on more…
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