Tag: education
LOG: Logistics Operations Guide for humanitarian logisticians
Here is something very useful for humanitarian logisticians: the Logistics Operations Guide, or LOG for short, brought to you by the Logistics Cluster. But not only is it useful for those in the humanitarian sector, it is an excellent model for the clear communication of logistics know-how: succint, practical and well-referenced. (The big logo below [...]
Categories: Supply Chain News and Comment, Supply Chain Resources, Training and Reference.
Tags: education, Humanitarian Logistics, Supply Chain
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More numeracy woes, bad news for supply chain skills
As I’ve been working from home a lot recently, I’ve had the radio on to give the office a bit of a ‘buzz’ and today I overheard this story on BBC 6 Music. Camelot have withdrawn a lottery scratchcard because customers couldn’t work out when they had won. The customers’ confusion stems from the concept [...]
Categories: Supply Chain News and Comment.
Tags: education, Lean, numeracy, People Management, Six Sigma, statistics
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Do we have the numeracy for Six Sigma?
There was a pretty depressing story in the Guardian a few days ago that proposes, in typical newspaper hyperbole, that Britain is in the grip of a numeracy crisis. For once, the concern is justified. According to the article, there are 3 times as many UK adults with poor numeracy than poor literacy. That’s 15.1 [...]
Categories: Supply Chain News and Comment.
Tags: education, Lean, numeracy, People Management, Shingo Shigeo, Six Sigma, statistics
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