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To Infuse Kaizen in Trucking

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                                              Trucks are loaded and unloaded across various states carrying the unique make of one manufacturer to another like colorful fabrics, simple yet important things like Incense and Kumkum etc. Transporting commodities to hundreds of miles away involves a lot of processes, techniques, labor and time.There are other ways to optimize the entire logistics like reducing the lead time, reducing the unloading-loading by using the equipments, applying the JIT, rooting out the causes of errors by using fish-bone method etc.       Many a times we fail to give credit and attention to the trucks when it is the most important asset of all. Kaizen can be applied to the transport activities by using forklifts. Lean Management and Just-In-Time can be used in faster movement of load from different Hubs.     ...