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How to Operate Your Distribution Truck Fleet at Less Cost

Logistics Bureau

But do you know how to operate your fleet for the maximum economy? How to Reduce Truck-Related Costs Trucks and vans are not cheap to run, so if you can save even a little on the cost of operating each vehicle in your fleet, those savings can mount up to a lot—and the more extensive your truck fleet, the more you can save.

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The 3 Pillars of Supply Chain Management (And Why Their Alignment Matters)

Logistics Bureau

In this post, we explain what those pillars are, why they matter, and how to align them in a way that supports supply chain management excellence. For example: Alignment of strategy and cost leads to happy shareholders. How accurate and effective is your demand planning? Why does the C-suite want the three pillars aligned?

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5 Steps to Solve a Supply Chain Crisis

GlobalTranz

For example, if you operate in an area prone to bushfires, you need to consider how this will affect the roads and infrastructure. Having a detailed plan of how to deal with issues like these will ensure that your employees are prepared and able to handle a problem before it becomes a supply chain crisis. Author Bio.

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‘Are we going the extra mile?’

World Food Programme Logistics

Other evaluations are commissioned based on strategic interests, the need for learning and accountability, such as strategic evaluations, emergency response evaluations and of course the decentralized evaluations commissioned and managed by WFP country offices. a good example is the joint evaluation of the Mozambique cyclone response of 2019.

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Industry View: Where’s Secondary Packaging Going?

Logistics Business Magazine

He explains what he means in the following example. To this end KHS is staging a number of workshops this year. These aim to find out how the percentage of recyclate in film – as stipulated by the new German Packaging Law, for example – can be increased. The material’s getting thinner and thinner,” states Klumpe.

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The 7 Principles of Warehouse and Distribution Centre Design

Logistics Bureau

For example: Why will it exist? That’s exactly what will happen if, for example, you underestimate the quantities of products your warehouse must comfortably hold. You will need to make sure you calculate, for example, how many intake doors will be optimal for your volumes of incoming goods. What market does it serve?

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‘One step forward, two steps back’

World Food Programme Logistics

At the beginning, COVID-19 was an unknown, rapidly-spreading pandemic and global health authorities were still identifying protocols, what high risk meant and how it was spread, how to protect ourselves. Meet the four women behind WFP’s humanitarian helicopter in Haiti How has our cargo changed? What is the Logistics Cluster?