Published on May 23, 2017 Lisa Anderson Announces APICS Student Case Competition Manufacturing and Supply Chain Expert, Lisa Anderson, MBA, CSCP, CLTD, president of LMA Consulting Group Inc., talks with Ron Stark about the awards she will be presenting and the exciting developments that manufacturing has achieved. [...]
Rail innovation is shaping logistics, driving efficiency, and reducing emissions for a sustainable future. This article covers how.
The Inland Empire Chapter of APICS, the leading association for supply chain and operations professionals, will be hosting a meeting on global supply chain trends and strategies at its Disruptive Innovations in Logistics Spring Executive Panel & Networking Symposium on May 6 in Corona, Calif. Expert panelists including Dr. [...]
I toured the Los Angeles Times last week and was impressed with the automation. Although newspapers seems like an old business, it was impressive in pure size and volume with minimal people.
According to the Material Handling & Logistics, robots are slashing U.S. wages and worsening pay inequality. That is certainly a provocative statement! According to new research by MIT's Daron Acemoglu and Boston University's Pascual Restrepo, one additional robot per thousand workers reduces the employment to population ratio from .18 percentage points to .34 percentage points and slashes wages from .25% to .5%.
Manufacturing innovation is the highlight at this summit, where creative solutions and industry trends will be the focus.
It is worth considering at least being aware of the power of crowdsourcing. Crowdsourcing can apply to all business and social interactions.
While in Japan last week, I had the opportunity to ride the bullet train three times - and, even waited to go back to Tokyo from Mt. Fuji to see it whiz past since you cannot see it in action in Tokyo as a terminal station - simply amazing [...]
If you are already in a product development cycle, take a step back to think about whether you think achieving 30% of total sales within 3 years is feasible.
How can we be innovative and use what we have in new ways to create success?
