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Logistics Blog

• Amazon Testing Drone Delivery System. Will it happen?
• Amazon Warehouse – behind the scenes.
• Horizontal Carousel Warehouse Automated Storage and Retrieval System – ASRS.
• IKEA Distribution Center in Savannah, GA. What do people think?
• Jobs with Starbucks Distribution.
• Logistics and supply chain management: Refresher. Hour long.
• Logistics IoT. The Logistics Internet Explained.
• Overview of Logistics and Supply Chain Management.
• Perishable monitoring with smart sensor tags – results of the European PASTEUR project
• Supply Chain MBA – enhance your knowledge and be a top performer.
• Top 10 Forklift Accidents! Safety is everyone’s job.
• Toyota Production System – 5S, Just in Time, Kaizen.
• Walmart Advanced Vehicle Experience Concept Truck.
• Walmart uses hydrogen powered fork lifts in giant energy efficient warehouse.
• Why UPS trucks never turn left – Supply Chain.

Supply Chain and Logistics Quotes

• “Supply Chain is like nature, it is all around us.” ~ EverythingSupplyChain.com
• “Leaders win through logistics. Vision, sure. Strategy, yes. But when you go to war, you need to have both toilet paper and bullets at the right place at the right time. In other words, you must win through superior logistics.”  ~ Tom Peters
• “Gentlemen, the officer who doesn’t know his communications and supply as well as his tactics is totally useless.”  ~ General George S. Patton
• “During the last war, eighty percent of our problems were of a logistical nature.”  ~ Field Marshall Montgomery
• “Tell me and I will forget, show me and I may remember, involve me and I’ll understand.”  ~ Chinese Proverb
• “Make inventory a common enemy for your company.” ~ Dave Waters
• “Where there is no Standard there can be no Kaizen.”  ~ Taiichi Ohno
• “I say an hour lost at a bottleneck is an hour out of the entire system. I say an hour saved at a non-bottleneck is worthless. Bottlenecks govern both throughput and inventory.”   ~ Eliyahu M. Goldratt, The Goal
• “Quality is free. It’s not a gift, but it’s free. The ‘unquality’ things are what cost money.”  ~ Phil Crosby
• “All we are doing is looking at the time line, from the moment the customer gives us an order to the point when we collect the cash. And we are reducing the time line by reducing the non-value adding wastes.”  ~ Taiichi Ohno
• “The line between disorder and order lies in logistics…”   ~ Sun Tzu
• “If you can’t describe what you are doing as a process, you don’t know what you’re doing.”  ~ W. Edwards Deming
• “Focus on the lowest total cost of ownership not the lowest price.” ~ EverythingSupplyChain.com