Applying Lean Concepts in a Warehouse Operation Frank Garcia Partner ADVENT DESIGN CORPORATION What We’ll Cover Basic Lean Concepts for Warehouse Improvement Using Value Stream Maps: Current & Future State Implementing Process Improvements Case Study Using and Ongoing Application (Pork Producer) WHAT TO DO ABOUT THE WAREHOUSE? • • • • • Too many people Excessive material handling Inventory inaccuracies Don’t ship the pounds No space!!!! Need to Expand! WAREHOUSE CHALLENGES Focus on Manufacturing
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and Personal Judgement and Initiative Engaged and Ethical Local and Global citizens Discipline Specific Knowledge and Skills Critical, Analytical and Integrative Thinking Assessment Tasks 5 5 6 6 8 Case Study and Presentation Media Report Analysis Final Examination 8 9 10 Unit Schedule Delivery and Resources 12 14 Classes Prizes Required and Recommended Texts and/or Materials Teachnology Used and Required Learning and Teaching Activities Policies and Procedures
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An outbreak investigation featuring a cohort study associated with food contamination with an unknown organism: Confirmed with a variety of biological identification techniques 2015 – Karl Olsen N0425691 During October 2015, an outbreak of 14 cases of symptoms related to gastroenteritis occurred at a bank staff party in Nottingham, it was confirmed via a cohort study that Salmonella was the infectious pathogen. A lack of significant association between specific food sources and illness suggests
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narrow jurisdiction 4. Constitutional issues – wide variety of cases High seas U.S. officers One of the 50 states A foreign government Citizens of different states 5. Presidential appointment, for life, approved or rejected by Senate 6. To hear and decide cases 7. Life 8. 8-15 years 9. Power of the federal courts alone to hear certain cases 10. Power shared by the federal and state courts to hear certain cases 11. In civil law, the party who brings a suit or some other legal
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HOFSTEDE: Cultures And Organizations - Software of the Mind Culture as mental programming In Western languages 'culture' commonly means 'civilization' or 'refinement of the mind' and in particular the results of such refinement, like education, art, and literature. This is 'culture in the narrow sense; 'culture one' Culture as mental software, however, corresponds to a much broader use of the word which is common among social anthropologists: this is ‘culture two’. In social anthropology, 'culture'
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BUSI620-Global Economic Environment Critical Thinking Questions 6 Questions for Critical Thinking 6 Chapter 12: A. Discussion Questions: 7, 11, and 13. 7. Quantity discounts are not a form of price discrimination because the firm saves on handling large orders. True or False? Explain True, quantity discounts are not a form of price discrimination because the firm saves on handling large orders (Salvatore, 2012, p. 492). Large orders can be shipped at a lesser price compared to
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Introduction The Hungarian method is a combinatorial optimization algorithm which was developed and published by Harold Kuhn in 1955. This method was originally invented for the best assignment of a set of persons to a set of jobs. It is a special case of the transportation problem. The algorithm finds an optimal assignment for a given “n x n” cost matrix. “Assignment problems deal with the question how to assign n items (e.g. jobs) to n machines (or workers) in the best possible way. […] Mathematically
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Finance Assignment Submitted by, Ukiwo Anya Vipin Sekar Chandrasekar Date : November 6, 2015 A Summary of the Economist Article: Reinventing the Company (October 24, 2015) The article talks about the rise of startups and the way they are changing how business is done and what it means to be a company. They are referred to as disrupters or insurgent companies. It illustrates this fact further with examples of Uber, Airbnb and cloud
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Basis for Bid Evaluation 6 1.10. Ethical Standards 6 1.11. Responsibility for Surety Bonds 7 1.12. Proposal Format 7 1.13. List of Bidders 7 1.14. Letter of Acknowledgment 7 2. DESCRIPTION OF WORK 8 2.1. Engineering Contracts 8 2.2. Construction Contracts 8 3. PROPOSAL 9 3.1. Breakdown of Bid Price 9 3.2. Revisions and Extra Work 10 3.3. Escalation Formulas 10 3.4. Scheduled Completion Dates 10 3.5. List of Subcontractors 10 3.6. Key Supplier
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No part of this publication may be reproduced in any form without the permission of the publishers. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A CIP entry for this book is available from the British Library ISBN: 978 0 7136 7604 4 eISBN-13: 978-1-4081-0157-5 Text typeset by A & C Black Printed in the UK by Caligraving Ltd This book is produced using paper that is made from wood grown in managed, sustainable forests. It is natural, renewable and recyclable. The logging and manufacturing
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