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I’ve just posted up a development version of a centre of gravity model for distribution centre location. It uses Google Maps, and it is really easy to use, and completely free. Try it here now. I regard it as a “toy” application, but I’m surprised how usable it is (down to the familiar Google interface […]

Books, still crammed with useful information that’s not on the web. What should you be reading to improve your Supply Chain or Lean knowledge? Find invaluable books here »

Supply Chain View has been collecting free resources from the web, for Supply Chain Management, Lean and Six Sigma. Find resources here »

There’s a commercial profile of Aricia Limited in this month’s Logistics and Transport Focus – I’d not heard of them, but it appears to be a micro-consultancy in the supply chain field, run by Kirsten Tisdale who wrote the Focus article. Kirsten’s website has a one-page document available to download entitled 50 ways to make […]

I forgot to mention in my post yesterday about last week’s HELP Forum meeting that Mike Whiting has also written about the air operation during Nargis, both the air-bridge from Bangkok and the helicopter operation in-country. Mike was OiC for Aviation for the Logs Cluster, so this is an authoritative account. You can find his […]

Sometimes people get hung up on semantics. Sometimes it pays to be clear – very clear. I am currently trying to wade through some waters muddied by misunderstanding and poor use of terminology. My employer has had some good quality experience of Lean (albeit in a fairly small section of its operations) for about four […]

I have added a permanent page containing a storage capacity calculator that I have put together. This little widget is based on something I knocked up years ago to aid warehouse planning and design. Please follow the link under the site banner or click here for the storage capacity calculator.

This is a simple storage capacity calculator, similar to something I put together a few years ago for warehouse design projects. It takes a set of product dimensions, a list of possible storage modules (pallets, stillages, bins, shelves, etc.) of different sizes, and calculates the number of products that will fit in each module. Providing […]

This has been on the web for some time but I’ve only just come across it. Gemba Panta Rei is a Lean weblog that consultants Gemba have been posting since 2003. Gemba’s press are about to publish a translation of Taiichi Ohno’s Gemba Keiei, or Workplace Management. This is one of the three books he […]

Perhaps you’ve arrived here looking for the Humanitarian Emergencies Logistics Professionals forum (HELP). If so, you may be confused. The forum can be found at help.supplychainview.com The Supply Chain View blog was launched Nov 2006. Please check back for comment and views on supply chain issues, or subscribe to the RSS feeds.