PlusOperational Excellence (OPEX) Insight – Thursday - October 15, 2026: Diesel Climbs, Cut Miles Not Service.
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Operational Excellence (OPEX) Insight – Thursday - October 15, 2026: Diesel Climbs, Cut Miles Not Service.
Welcome To Operational Excellence (OPEX) Insight Article For The Paid Subscriber-Only Edition .
Operational Excellence (OPEX) Insight – Thursday - October 15, 2026: Diesel Climbs, Cut Miles Not Service.
Welcome To Operational Excellence (OPEX) Insight Article For The Paid Subscriber-Only Edition .
Operational Excellence (OPEX) Insight – Tuesday - October 13, 2026: Building a Factory for a World That Does Not Exist Yet.
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Operational Excellence (OPEX) Insight – Thursday - October 08, 2026: Nike Cuts Back to Run Faster.
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Operational Excellence (OPEX) Insight – Tuesday - October 06, 2026: Automate Waste and You Just Get Faster Waste.
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Plus PlusOperational Excellence (OPEX) Insight – Tuesday - October 13, 2026: Building a Factory for a World That Does Not Exist Yet.
Welcome To Operational Excellence (OPEX) Insight Article For The Paid Subscriber-Only Edition .
PlusOperational Excellence (OPEX) Insight – Thursday - October 08, 2026: Nike Cuts Back to Run Faster.
Welcome To Operational Excellence (OPEX) Insight Article For The Paid Subscriber-Only Edition .
PlusOperational Excellence (OPEX) Insight – Tuesday - October 06, 2026: Automate Waste and You Just Get Faster Waste.
Welcome To Operational Excellence (OPEX) Insight Article For The Paid Subscriber-Only Edition .
PlusOperational Excellence (OPEX) Insight – Thursday - October 01, 2026: Automate Waste and You Just Get Faster Waste.
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PlusOperational Excellence (OPEX) Insight – Tuesday - September 29, 2026: When Supply and Demand Sit at One Table: A Lesson From Clorox
Clorox is moving its US supply chain to a new ERP. The real lever is not software but S&OP: one shared plan across sales, production and finance.
PlusOperational Excellence (OPEX) Insight – Thursday - September 24, 2026: Idle Stock Is Idle Cash: Amazon's Inventory AI Move.
Amazon is bringing AI agents to inbound planning and aged inventory. The underlying tool is ABC analysis: focus control on the few items that carry most of the value.
PlusOperational Excellence (OPEX) Insight – Wednesday - September 23, 2026: Don't Keep All the Eggs in One China Basket.
Nexperia is expanding into India with Tata after losing control of its China unit. The lesson: map single points of failure and diversify supply before a link breaks.
PlusOperational Excellence (OPEX) Insight – Thursday - September 17, 2026: Chips Piled Up in the Warehouse and Still Stuck, Because the Bottleneck Has Moved.
AI infrastructure has chips in stock yet still stalls. Every system is limited by one constraint at a time, and fixing it only moves the bottleneck elsewhere.
PlusOperational Excellence (OPEX) Insight – Tuesday - September 15, 2026: Why No One Can Move a Factory Overnight.
Apple is ramping iPhone assembly in India, yet a new plant cannot match a mature one in China overnight. Cost, speed and yield come from accumulated learning, not copied equipment.
PlusOperational Excellence (OPEX) Insight – Thursday - September 10, 2026: Amazon Raises 2026 Holiday Surcharges: When Price Becomes A Peak Load Tool.
Amazon quietly published higher holiday surcharges. Seen as operations rather than a money grab, price becomes a tool to spread peak load.
PlusOperational Excellence (OPEX) Insight – Tuesday - September 08, 2026: Made in Time, Delivered Too Late.
Standing at the loading dock behind an AI data center, the piece looks at what happens after chips are made: why output produced on time can still be delivered too late.
PlusOperational Excellence (OPEX) Insight – Thursday - September 03, 2026: Every Big Change Gets Worse Before It Gets Better.
The US has about $1.97 trillion in manufacturing investment commitments, yet early September 2026 shows a paradox. Why big operational changes get worse before they get better.