Logistics in a general business sense, manages the flow of goods between the point of origin and the point of consumption to meet the requirements of customers or corporations. The resources managed in logistics may include tangible goods such as materials, equipment, and supplies, as well as food and other consumable items.
When I was a child, I remember the prices on products at the store were merely stickers with a currency value on them. Sometimes, there were several stickers – one on top of the other – and you could see if the price had changed upwards or downwards.
Human behavior is as funny as it is interesting. We take as a given that with which we grew-up as a child – our country, local community, heritage, religion, government – collectively our experience. We are conditioned to not question that which is “normal” – because that is the way it’s always been. And not given an alternative…
XONITEK-US and XONITEK-UK recently hosted an Operational Excellence Summit in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. If you have ever been to Amsterdam, you will know there are distinct cultural differences which are quite obvious if you are from New York – even from a pre-Giuliani New York. From each place I visit, I’ve always liked to acquire…
“First comes thought; then organization of that thought into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.” Napoleon Hill Almost all of us have experienced a “ Eureka Moment ” – a moment in our lives where we have had a great thought…
