By Edwin Lopez, Supply Chain Dive; October 26, 2018
- Kansas City Southern (KCS) is closely watching Union Pacific’s transition to precision scheduled railroading (PSR) before deciding how and whether it will apply the operating model to its own service, CEO Patrick Ottesnmeyer said during a third-quarter earnings call.
- “There certainly are elements of the precision scheduled railroading methodology that we think makes sense. A lot of these fallback to things like lean processes, trip plan compliance, more adherence to trip plans, improved asset utilization, discipline,” Ottensmeyer said.
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