Lean Six Sigma Is Ideal for Improving Supply Chains
Lean Six Sigma has improved manufacturing operations and processes for years now. Now the effect of the methodology is extending to supply chain and operations to help eliminate waste and reduce variation.
Making Supply Chains Deliver More Than Just Faster, Cheaper Products
Supply chains are having a moment. In March 2021, one of the world’s largest container ships got wedged in the Suez Canal, blocking 10 percent of global trade for a few days and launching a flotilla of memes.
How to Perform a Supplier Evaluation
Supply chain management (SCM) has been defined as “the design, planning, execution, control, and monitoring of supply chain activities with the objective of creating net value, building a competitive infrastructure, leveraging worldwide logistics, synchronizing suppl
Delivering on the Promise of Delivery
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With recent disruptions critically impacting the autom
MIT and Harvard Agree to Transfer edX to Ed-Tech Firm 2U
First published June 29, 2021, on MIT News.
Workplace Development Is the New Workforce Development
This article is the fourth in a monthly series brought to you by the America Works initiative.
Let’s Keep Meetings Virtual After Covid
This story was originally published by Knowable Magazine.
Digital Supply-Chain Maturity Assessment Sets Stage for Optimizing Performance
The premise for the NIST MEP Digital Supply-Chain Network project is familiar to MEP centers—many small and medium-sized manufacturers (SMMs) are often not ready for Industry 4.0 and don’t know how to implement it.
With Ford’s Electric F-150 Pickup, the EV Transition Shifts Into High Gear
When President Joe Biden took Ford’s electric F-150 Lightning pickup for a test drive in Dearborn, Michigan, in May 2021, the ev