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Your Complete Guide to Smart Warehouses

A pair of lean consultants auditing the floor of a smart warehousing facility

Smart warehousing brings together the most innovative solutions that modern technology has to offer to improve your facility’s picking, packing, and transporting processes. Find out what smart warehousing can do for you.

Incorporating Lean Principles Into an Eco-Friendly Plant Layout

A futuristic production plant utilizing lean principles and eco-friendly methodologies.

In today’s environmentally conscious world, businesses are increasingly embracing eco-friendly practices to reduce their carbon footprint and contribute to a sustainable future. Integrating lean principles into facility design, specifically focusing on plant layout and design, is a powerful approach to achieving both efficiency and environmental sustainability.

Empowering a Lean Supply Chain With Predictive AI Analytics

In today’s competitive, fast-paced business landscape, supply chain management has become a critical factor in a company’s success. A lean supply chain is not just about reducing costs; it’s about optimizing processes, minimizing waste, and ensuring the efficient flow of goods and services. Leveraging artificial intelligence in the supply chain, particularly predictive AI analytics, is a surefire way of achieving optimal efficiency.

8 Wastes of Lean Manufacturing & How to Eliminate Them

Not only is your company being impacted by COVID-19 related labor and material shortages in logistics, but your vendors and clients are also likely feeling the stress. Optimizing your supply chain processes improves efficiency and reduces wasted time and materials. Taking it a step further and creating a pull system approach to order fulfillment — one that’s based on lean principles — is another way to reduce waste. It helps you improve your production quality and frees you of excess inventory.

What Is Value Stream Mapping?

Not only is your company being impacted by COVID-19 related labor and material shortages in logistics, but your vendors and clients are also likely feeling the stress. Optimizing your supply chain processes improves efficiency and reduces wasted time and materials. Taking it a step further and creating a pull system approach to order fulfillment — one that’s based on lean principles — is another way to reduce waste. It helps you improve your production quality and frees you of excess inventory.