https://RationalAmerica.com/tags/operational-excellence/Recent content in Operational-Excellence on Rational AmericaHugoen-usSat, 05 Sep 2026 09:00:00 -0400https://RationalAmerica.com/posts/the-secret-of-supply-chain-optimization-through-ra/Sat, 05 Sep 2026 09:00:00 -0400https://RationalAmerica.com/posts/the-secret-of-supply-chain-optimization-through-ra/<h1 id="the-secret-of-supply-chain-optimization-through-rational-logistics-planning">The Secret of Supply Chain Optimization Through Rational Logistics Planning</h1> <p>You think your last mile is chaotic. Try feeding a city of 2.3 million people entirely by airplane.</p> <p>On a muggy July morning in 1948, a Douglas C-47 dropped out of the clouds over West Berlin and slammed onto the runway at Tempelhof. Ground crews swarmed the fuselage like pit mechanics. In minutes, ten tons of flour came out, the empty pallets went back in, and the aircraft was rumbling toward the opposite threshold while a dozen more planes stacked in the landing pattern above. Three minutes. That was the turnaround target. On a good day, a plane landed, unloaded and took off again inside of three minutes, and every one of those minutes was choreographed like a stage play.</p>