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Focus on Waste Reduction

Focus on Waste Reduction

October 9, 2017
OM in the News

This is your Monday OM in the News roundup! Follow the links to recent posts from our faculty contributors. This week’s focus is on reducing waste and increasing efficiency. Reduce, reuse, recycle, and upgrade.

Steelcase Runs Circles Around Waste
An estimated 8.5 million tons of furniture waste goes to landfills annually. Furniture designer/manufacturer Steelcase helps companies re-purpose excess furniture,  to enhance everyone’s triple bottom line. Read more…

Out with the Old, In with the Cloud
Despite its name, a supply chain is anything but linear. And Oracle suggests that legacy supply chains lack the agility needed to operate in today’s interconnected web of suppliers and customers. Read more…

Managing Inventory with Surgical Precision
Ambulatory Surgical Centers (ASCs) have untapped opportunities to reduce waste by better managing inventory. Observing how surgeons use inventory is one of the best ways to determine not just what to stock, but how much. Read more…

inventory management, JIT, responsive supply chains, waste management
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Amazon, Sewbots, and Beer

Amazon, Sewbots, and Beer

October 3, 2017
OM in the News

This is your OM in the News roundup! Thanks to our faculty contributors for sharing excellent articles with thoughtful discussion questions.

Location, location, location
Amazon is looking for a second headquarters location, and the pundits are atwitter. How will their corporate culture be affected? Will the two locations do their own thing, or will HQ2 follow the dictates of its parent? To what extent will Amazon’s famously centralized supply chain management change? Read more…

Robots stitch the deal
Another article about location, this one the decision of a Chinese apparel manufacturer, Tianyuan, to open a factory in the US. Working with US robotics company Softwear Automation, Tianyuan plans to produce a T-shirt every 26 seconds for 33 cents. How many jobs will this create in the US? Is there an opportunity to expand jobs in the US by luring overseas manufacturers to our fair shores? Read more…

A clean-drinking port in a storm
Anheuser-Busch turned production on a dime, turning beer into… water. Its Cartersville, Georgia brewery whipped up a large batch of fresh drinking water to support relief efforts after Hurricane Harvey swept through Houston. Read more…

automation, flexible-manufacturing, insourcing, location, productivity, robots, strategic capacity management
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