Entries tagged as logistics

Combination of company’s business processes, skills and motivation of its employees and ability to measure performance are in my view three most importance factors when talking about operational excellence. In my reengineering days when there was a need to understand how to resolve a specific business problem we always started from discovering the current business process in order to understand specific issues and improvement opportunities that stem from fixing these issues. A key component to quantifying the potential fix is ability to put real numbers behind both issues and solutions. There are companies out there today that offer a very interesting take on the measuring aspect. Oco Inc, a Waltham MA based company offers host of supply chain management related solutions bringing Software As A Service (SAAS) model into the supply chain world.

The names of several articles about container train network built in China caught my attention. Interestingly several articles are talking about linking China to Europe by cargo rail. While I am fully aware of the huge effort by the Chinese government to improve and often build from scratch a modern and powerful infrastructure in that country, I think adding a European angle to this development is a bit of a stretch. This huge bit is called Russia.

With apologies to Sergio Aragones, the brilliant cartoonist of Mad Magazine’s Spy vs. Spy, I want to chat about RFID chips, those miniature devices that allow us to track the movement of inventory

Rare events in our recent history made more dramatic changes to the world and to the supply chains than the fall of the Berlin wall. 

Perhaps it was growing up within a stone’s throw of the New Jersey Turnpike. Or, working my way through college by loading and unloading 18 wheelers, but I have always been a fan of trucks.