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Sourcing Innovation: Public Procurement in 2020 -- Are You On Track? Part IV
At the beginning of the week, we began our discussion of Hansen's predictions for public procurement in 2020, which were offered as a 5-part series last month in response to the 5 predictions of Bob Lohfeld (of Lohfeld Consulting) that were published in Washington Technology in early July. We
Evolving Excellence: People Exploration
By Kevin Meyer While perusing today's Parade Magazine supplement in the Sunday paper, between a recipe for soup and a weight loss ad, I came across an interview with Stephen Hawking. Always an interesting perspective, and today I was not...
Watch Crimewatch tonight: violent lorry hijack & theft of football shirts...
Earlier in the year I reported on a trucker who was threatened with a gun before being hijacked in Drome Road, of Deeside Industrial Estate. An expensive haul of Umbro football shirts were stolen. Police are urging anyone who was...
Evolving Excellence: The Royal Monkey
by BILL WADDELL A few months back I was asked to visit one of the big - really big - manufacturing software providers to talk to them about lean. They were particularly interested in lean accounting, and thought there might...
Evolving Excellence: Factory Tour of the Week: Allen Edmonds Shoes
This week we visit Allen Edmonds, a shoe company that resisted the urge to chase cheap labor overseas and instead invested in lean manufacturing. Which is a big reason why I've worn Allen Edmonds for many years. Visit Superfactory for...
Evolving Excellence: Freight Is The Tail - Not the Dog
by BILL WADDELL Economy of scale is great when you've got it. The problem comes when you try to create it out of thin air. That tunnel visioned pursuit of economies of scale is apparent nowhere more clearly than in...
Sourcing Innovation: Stay Hip with the Program with Hiperos
Last year, I told you how you could Get Hip with Hiperos, an "Extended Enterprise Management" platform that allows you to manage your risk, performance, compliance, sustainability, and supplier information through a single portal that they dubbed R3. Knowing that you can't stay still in the
A hairy demo of why an Electronic Stability Program is a good idea on an artic says Biglorryblog!
This is the last of the video clips I shot at the Mercedes-Benz safety seminar last Thursday and shows (albeit briefly) an Actros artic negotiating the industry standard 'Double-S' stability manoeuvre at the Stuttgart test track - but without...
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