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The significant benefits of Lean corporate culture.
 Lean has changed the way many leading enterprises deliver products to customers and suppliers. However, there is a significant performance gap between companies simply using Lean techniques on the shop floor and those that have built a Lean corporate culture.
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Arcelor Accepts Mittal's $32.46 Billion Offer
After five months of acrimony and evasion, Arcelor S.A. agreed to an improved takeover offer from Mittal Steel, creating the world's largest steel producer, with over 100 million metric tons/year of raw steel capacity. Read more
Logistics Costs Have Explosive Growth
Rosalyn Wilson could only call the growth in logistics costs in 2005 "explosive." In the history of the State of Logistics Report, she had not seen total logistics costs rise faster than in the current report period. The 17th Annual State of Logistics Report put total logistics costs to U.S. companies at $1,183 billion. Read more
Manufactured Durables Orders Drop For Second Month
In still another sign that the U.S. economy is slowing from the heady 5.3% annual rate of growth in the first quarter of this year, new orders for manufactured durable goods fell three-tenths of a percentage point in May to $208.7 billion, according to the U.S. Commerce Department. Read more
Mineta Quitting As Transportation Secretary
Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta, the only Democrat in President Bush's Cabinet and one of its three remaining original members, will step down July 7. Read more
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