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Cost to Serve Analysis—And the Costs of Neglecting It

Logistics Bureau

Have you conducted a cost-to-serve (CTS) analysis for your enterprise? And that is the sole purpose of cost-to-serve analysis. If you were going to say, “What is a cost-to-serve analysis?” Only a complete cost-to-serve analysis will expose these underlying issues unless they happen to be discovered incidentally.

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Mastering Demand and Inventory Planning: Essential Strategies for Success

3PL Links

Image source: PxHere | Mastering Demand and Inventory Planning: Essential Strategies for Success Have you ever thought about how businesses effectively satisfy customer demand and maintain supplied inventory? This article contains useful information on how to integrate the operations and sales departments in a demand planning process.

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How Supply Chain & Logistics Companies are Mitigating Labor Shortages

Logistics Viewpoints

The automation opportunity is not only for laborers, but also for knowledge workers who spend an inordinate time preparing data and running reports rather than conducting higher-value analysis and planning. Companies are changing their hiring strategies to attract workers. Retention strategies are also changing to keep workers.

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3 Warehouse Insights for Supply Chain Leaders from the Wall Street Journal’s Industry Analysis

Stord

The Wall Street Journal’s recent analysis of retailers’ logistical challenges highlights the appeal and success of alternative solutions to traditional warehousing in retail and beyond. We’ve rounded up the key insights from the article below. Scalability is a huge component of alternative strategies. Visibility is also vital.

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Top Transportation Management and Transportation Articles of 2015

GlobalTranz

We continue our series on the most read articles from the Cerasis blog for 2015 today by featuring any of the blogs in the transportation management or transportation categories. . We've already listed the top 10 manufacturing articles, the top 10 supply chain articles, and yesterday, the top 10 logistics articles.

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Logistics Manager Analysis: EV Cargo targets acquisitions, on-demand services in global growth bid

247 Customs Broker

EV Cargo has launched its fifth business division – EV Cargo Solutions – as part of a wider strategy to turn the $1 billion 3PL… The post Logistics Manager Analysis: EV Cargo targets acquisitions, on-demand services in global growth bid appeared first on 24/7 Customs Broker News.

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When is the right time to outsource your fulfilment?

ShipLilly

A logistical analysis and important tips for businesses. This article considers some of the indicators to consider if outsourcing might be the solution for your needs. Of course, there are those who have an aggressive business strategy right from the outset. There are two sides to the cost-benefit analysis.