Category Archives: Logistics

Reducing the number of shopping bags

Posted on March 29, 2011 by | Leave a comment

How many items should we allow a customer to put in a bag? An interesting perspective and not the whole answer by any means.

Bagging process design « The Operations Room

 

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A new wrinkle for manufacturing

Posted on February 21, 2011 by | 1 comment

So this concept of making single products by building them up a layer at a time might become feasible.

Does this mean that a ship could start from China simply full of raw material, and actually make the individualized products en route, customized to the orders that are coming in?

It would kind of take the pain out of the long steaming times. You would not even have to have orders till you started out. There’s a bit of similarity with the frozen fish business, where the mix of packages can be determined as the fish is caught and processed on board.

Print me a Sheep: 3D printing « The Operations Room

 

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Outstanding discussion of Internet Metering Plans

Posted on February 15, 2011 by | Leave a comment

Must reading, loyal readers. Here we have a close analysis by a top operations scholar about internet metering– elimination of unlimited usage plans for phone and internet.

It’s an important technology and supply chain issue, and ultimately will affect all.  I’m not taking sides here. It’s important to be aware of the arguments on all sides. and furthermore, it will keep your operations and economics skills sharp to move back and forth between those different modes of thinking.

Bandwith hogs and network performance « The Operations Room

 

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