Solving Cross-Border Roadblocks
- Topics:
- Transportation
- Source:
- Reed Elsevier
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Overview: Article defines a step-by-step process mapping helped one shipper speed shipments across the U.S.-Mexico border. Denso Manufacturing Tennessee, an automotive components manufacturer, decided to tackle the transit-time problem. By working with its service providers to map out the entire shipment process from U.S. origin to Mexican destination, Denso not only discovered why its shipments were taking so long but it also was able to eliminate the cause of those delays. As a result, the company has cut both door-to-door transit times and safety stocks of inventory by about 70 percent while realizing double-digit savings in some areas. One of the step is to map out the activities involved in moving a shipment and redesign processes to maximize speed and reliability.
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Format: HTML | Date: Mar 2003 | Pages: 1
