Logistics Bureau

MARCH 3, 2019

Let’s begin with a look at network planning, because whether your company requires one warehouse or five, your service, efficiency, and costs will be influenced heavily by your choice of location and capacity. This requirement, in turn, will influence decisions about the number of warehouses required, and their capacity.

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Conger

JULY 28, 2022

How to Measure Warehouse Safety. How Safe Are Warehouses? How to Measure Warehouse Safety. Otherwise, how will you know if things got better, worse, or stayed the same? Near misses provide insight into the factors that led to the unsafe incident and provide a framework for how to fix them. Let’s dive in!

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Conger

JANUARY 7, 2022

This article is all about forklift weight capacity. In it, you'll learn: How forklifts work. The difference between a forklift’s rated capacity and its actual capacity. OSHA’s rules on forklift capacity. How to calculate your forklift's actual capacity. How a Forklift Works: A Balancing Act.

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Logistics Bureau

AUGUST 1, 2022

So it’s easy to see how vital it is for the demand planner to communicate and collaborate effectively with the functional stakeholders who own the necessary data. So, for example, the Head of Supply might be the Supply Chain Director, Supply Chain Manager, or another non-executive supply chain management specialist. Inventory turns.

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247 Customs Broker

MARCH 26, 2018

But today, when capacity is extremely tight, it’s the wrong approach and will produce awful results!”. Viewing transportation as a commodity in today’s market where capacity is tight—and likely to remain tight well into 2019—can be very, very costly. It’s important to press for in-depth answers and examples. Guess what?

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Conger

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Those operating forklifts must be aware of the load capacity of their equipment and adhere to it. When operators attempt to make quick turns or exceed the load capacity, it can lead to the forklift tipping over , posing risks that can even be life-threatening.

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247 Customs Broker

JUNE 6, 2018

Because an understanding of the opposing forces of economies and diseconomies of scale is necessary for shippers and carriers to know how to strike the right balance in their transportation planning. The modern assembly line is the best example of this. For example, compare a 3’x 3’x3’ container with a 6’x 6’x 6’ container.

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Sabinext

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

London, for example, accounts for 32 % of the UK’s national GDP produced by only 23 % of the population. Moving thousands of people and products effectively from A to B on a daily basis is an incredibly complex exercise, both financially and environmentally. The challenge of being too big to fail. Data-driven approach.

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The Lean Thinker

DECEMBER 21, 2017

On the one hand, the practice has become more sophisticated as people explore and learn application in contexts other than the original industrial examples. That book provides working examples of vertical linkage between organizational strategy and shop floor improvement efforts. Check Equipment Capacity. It is a learned skill.

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Logistics Bureau

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Slotting a warehouse product is the same, for example, as placing your umbrella close to your front door at home, so it’s easy to pick it up and run when it’s raining, and you’re late for work. It also stands to reason that when you undertake a slotting exercise, you should think about it from the perspective of these activities.

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Logistics Business Magazine

DECEMBER 11, 2022

For example, a big-box retailer that started to build out its pickup services, it delivery services, and so on, so that when the world pivoted, and stores were closed, but people still wanted this retailer’s products, it already had all of that investment there. Consumers are looking for more durable products.

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Logistics Bureau

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Whether that is the case or not, a brief study of the origins and progression of fleet route optimisation, covering the last three decades or so and looking forward to the near future, highlights in a spectacular way how technology, in particular, has revolutionised the business of logistics.

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Talking Logistics

JANUARY 11, 2019

As reported by Reuters, “Amazon could build a stake of almost a third in warehouse robotics firm Balyo in the next seven years…Under the terms of the deal, Amazon will receive free stock warrants representing up to 29 percent of Balyo’s capital which it can exercise depending on orders of the company’s products.

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Automotive Logistics

AUGUST 14, 2018

There is a basic imbalance in the number of vehicles that the US imports and exports with its global trading partners, which contributes to ongoing problems involving congestion and limited capacity on hinterland feeder services, something compounded by a lurch in consumer preferences for bigger trucks and away from passenger vehicles (sedans).

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