C.H. Robinson Worldwide recently launched its Lean AI Engineer, an AI system that works with its existing Lean AI Planner to autonomously operate and enhance 4PL customers’ global supply chains across ...

In the “Benefits of Lean Accounting in a Lean Manufacturing Company,” author Dan Anthony discusses the major differences between traditional and lean accounting, starting with a quote from Taiichi ...

C.H. Robinson announced its most recent AI-focused initiative, in the form of a new offering, which it said is the first to ...

The concept of “Lean,” which is essentially a team-based approach to continuous improvement focused on eliminating non-value added activities or “waste” from the viewpoint of the customer, has been ...

The supply chain industry is at a crossroads. Once upon a time, when most products and components were in abundance, a lean supply chain was a miracle of efficiency. Lean principles were used in every ...

Lean and just-in-time (JIT) strategies are still vital to supply chains. Lean management practices JIT strategies may have taken a beating in recent years, but only because companies relied too ...

I interviewed John Sobeck, Vice President Material Management Services and Supply Chain 4.0 at the ZF Group, about their digital supply chain transformation journey. It turns out ZF has been on this ...

Editor's Note: Mark Dohnalek is President & CEO of Pivot International, the Kansas-based global product development, engineering & manufacturing firm. Lean manufacturing is a term applied to processes ...

There’s been a long-held concept that a supply chain could be agile or lean, but not both. In last month’s article, we explored how with the right digital transformation, there is no reason why a ...

AT A GLANCE • Differences in supply and demand of hogs and pork are influenced by seasonality, the hog production cycle and ...