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Seneca College, School of Marketing
Field Trip:
Canadian Tire Logistics Talk & Tour March 28, 2014
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Professor Steven Litt [email protected]
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Canadian Tire Logistics Talk & Tour March 28, 2014
An hour after a 7:15 AM start and a bus trip across Highway 7, we’re just south of 8550 Goreway
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Canadian Tire Logistics Talk & Tour March 28, 2014
Dozens of trucks bays Receiving AND Shipping!
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Canadian Tire Logistics Talk & Tour March 28, 2014
Arriving…
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Professor Steven Litt [email protected]
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Canadian Tire Logistics Talk & Tour March 28, 2014
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Professor Steven Litt [email protected]
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Canadian Tire Logistics Talk & Tour March 28, 2014
They fed us and fuelled the morning crowd with Tim’s…
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Professor Steven Litt [email protected]
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Canadian Tire Logistics Talk & Tour March 28, 2014
Thanks you to Len, Ken and Mark for terrific presentations
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Professor Steven Litt [email protected]
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Canadian Tire Logistics Talk & Tour March 28, 2014
Ken takes us through a Canadian success story’s background
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Professor Steven Litt [email protected]
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Canadian Tire Logistics Talk & Tour March 28, 2014
Len describes the overall logistics flow and some of the challenges involved
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Professor Steven Litt [email protected]
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Canadian Tire Logistics Talk & Tour March 28, 2014
Students were actually taking notes!
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Professor Steven Litt [email protected]
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Canadian Tire Logistics Talk & Tour March 28, 2014
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Professor Steven Litt [email protected]
@strategysteven
Canadian Tire Logistics Talk & Tour March 28, 2014
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Professor Steven Litt [email protected]
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Canadian Tire Logistics Talk & Tour March 28, 2014
More from Ken on the
fascinating AGV’s
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Canadian Tire Logistics Talk & Tour March 28, 2014
Ken the facility manager gives us a backgrounder
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Canadian Tire Logistics Talk & Tour March 28, 2014
Len ‘backlit master’ Foster describes how 4 types of product classes each requires different logistics resources and flow
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Canadian Tire Logistics Talk & Tour March 28, 2014
Q&A time!
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Canadian Tire Logistics Talk & Tour March 28, 2014
A few words about the facility &
what we will see on the floor
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Professor Steven Litt [email protected]
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Canadian Tire Logistics Talk & Tour March 28, 2014
Be careful out there! (we were in very good hands)
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Professor Steven Litt [email protected]
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Canadian Tire Logistics Talk & Tour March 28, 2014
The facility is >30m high in places!
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Professor Steven Litt [email protected]
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Canadian Tire Logistics Talk & Tour March 28, 2014
AGV’s….
the A does indeed mean FULLY Automated
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Professor Steven Litt [email protected]
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Canadian Tire Logistics Talk & Tour March 28, 2014
Technology is used to find products,
read codes,
adjust inventory,
direct product to trucks…
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Canadian Tire Logistics Talk & Tour March 28, 2014
How tight can YOU floor-load a truck?
It’s an art!
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Professor Steven Litt [email protected]
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Canadian Tire Logistics Talk & Tour March 28, 2014
Privileged to have Patrick as Tour facilitator. (Kept this group safe & answered our questions!)
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Professor Steven Litt [email protected]
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Canadian Tire Logistics Talk & Tour March 28, 2014
Privileged to have Randy as Tour facilitator. (Kept this group safe & answered our questions!)
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Professor Steven Litt [email protected]
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Canadian Tire Logistics Talk & Tour March 28, 2014
Privileged to have Tracy as Tour facilitator. (Kept this group safe & answered our questions!)
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Professor Steven Litt [email protected]
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Canadian Tire Logistics Talk & Tour March 28, 2014
Our hosts patiently answering EVERYONE’s questions after the tour.
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Professor Steven Litt [email protected]
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Canadian Tire Logistics Talk & Tour March 28, 2014
Our hosts patiently answering questions after the tour- even the teacher had questions!
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Professor Steven Litt [email protected]
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Canadian Tire Logistics Talk & Tour March 28, 2014
Thanks to our hosts!
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Professor Steven Litt [email protected]
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Canadian Tire Logistics Talk & Tour March 28, 2014
Two of our terrific hosts! (missing Mark!)
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Professor Steven Litt [email protected]
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Canadian Tire Logistics Talk & Tour March 28, 2014
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Professor Steven Litt [email protected]
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Canadian Tire Logistics Talk & Tour March 28, 2014
The Bus-transported crew (missing a few who took own transport back for a 1:30 Quiz)
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Canadian Tire Logistics Talk & Tour March 28, 2014
We would like to THANK our hosts!
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