Quotes About Logistics

You can't live in Orange County and train in Thousand Oaks. OK? you just can't. Not with the hours we put in. We have to be on time.

Are you a smuggler? [...] He laughed. Borders - lines on a map. Things move across, people too. I'm just the delivery boy.

Why is shipping so difficult? I think there are two challenges and one reason: The challenges: 1. Thrashing 2. Coordination And the reason: The resistance.

One of the difficulties in living the lifestyle I lead is that it is hard to get my friends in one place.

All interstellar empires rose and fell, ultimately, on their ability to deliver on this one simple, unexciting thing: logistics.

Was your plant able to ship even one more product per day as a result of what happened in the department where you installed the robots?

Ford's starting point was that the key for effective production is to concentrate on improving the overall flow of products through the operations. His efforts to improve flow were so successful that, by 1926, the lead time from mining the iron ore to having a completed car composed of more than 5,000 parts, on the train ready for delivery, was 81 hours!3 Eighty years later, no car manufacturer in the world has been able to achieve, or even come close, to such a short lead time.

You see, whenever there's a hole in a buffer—and I'm not talking about just the work that's supposed to be done on a given day, but the work for two or three days down the road—we go and check in which work center the materials are stuck.

If Ralph can determine a schedule for releasing red-tag materials based on the bottlenecks, he can also determine a schedule for final assembly. Once he knows when the bottleneck parts will reach final assembly, he can calculate backwards and determine the release of the non-bottleneck materials along each of their routes. In this way, the bottlenecks will be determining the release of all the materials in the plant.

Eighty percent of your products require at least one part from a bottleneck. What are you going to substitute for the bottleneck part that hasn't shown up yet?" Bob scratches his head and says, "Oh, yeah . . . I forgot." "So if we can't assemble," says Stacey, "we get piles of inventory again. Only this time the excess inventory doesn't accumulate in front of a bottleneck; it stacks up in front of final assembly.

The pirates could probably follow or at least locate us even while we were in white space, which nobody else could manage. So they had better ways to track us than by tryingto hack the interstellar mail tracelessly (that last word is key)-which even Singer wasn't sure he could manage, as the minds that ran it were big and old and wise in the ways of logistics and treachery, as well as having abundant cycles to play with.

Shipping is a terrible thing to do to vegetables. They probably get jet-lagged, just like people.

I don't really know the logistics of a Soundcloud rapper.

I never predict freight rates; nobody can do that.

If we drive cost down, we will be able to live with low freight rates.

Real estate deals a lot with the government. It isn't like manufacturing, logistics, home appliances or the auto sector, which deal with consumers.

Sea freight is by far the cheapest, most economical way to move goods.

Amazon is definitely serious about delivering its goods by an autonomous air force.

On 'Game of Thrones,' we always shoot away from the green screen because it's bloody expensive to shoot green screen.

My sister has kids, including two in baby seats, and she drives a minivan. I had to climb over the car seats to get into the back seat, and it seemed ridiculous to have to do gymnastics to get in and out of the car.

Just as military officers must understand force structures, tactics, logistics, munitions, the effects of geography, and the like in order to plot military strategy, political defiance planners must understand the nature and strategic principles of nonviolent struggle.

You're really spread out now, you've got stuff all over the WORLD! You've got stuff at home, stuff in storage, stuff in Honolulu, stuff in Maui, stuff in your pockets...supply lines are getting longer and harder to maintain.

One of the big problems we had was, 'Where are we going to put the trailer?' So now they've found places - they did 'A Walk in the Woods,' they put it with that movie 'War Room,' they put it with 'Ricki and the Flash.'

Surface streets are probably a hundred to a thousand times more complicated than highways.