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8 Reasons Why Your Business’ Success Depends Upon Your Supply Chain

Logistics Bureau

Supply chain strategy is critical to business success, but companies often underestimate its importance and hence pay it less leadership attention than other areas of operation. Supply Chain Strategy. In other words, the majority did not recognise the need for close alignment between supply chain and general business strategies.

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7 Reasons Why the Supply Chain Matters to Business Success

Logistics Bureau

Supply chain strategy is critical to business success, but companies often underestimate its importance and hence pay it less leadership attention than other areas of operation. Supply Chain Strategy. In other words, the majority did not recognise the need for close alignment between supply chain and general business strategies.

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Energy Efficiency Is Key to Better Logistics

Material Handling and Logistics

While studies show that consumers want sustainable products, only 5%-10% will actually pay a price differential for that,” Sheffi says. For example, UPS is aiming to have 25% of its new vehicles run on alternative fuel or be an advanced technology vehicle, such as hybrid trucks that uses materials that improve fuel efficiency.

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31 Motivations for Reshoring Manufacturing & Updated Reshoring Stats

GlobalTranz

And, according to a Boston Consulting Group (BCG) study, 54% of companies with above one billion in revenues are now considering reshoring. for example, compared to shipping state-to-state. For example, Chinese wages have increased 320% since 2000. Since 2005, U.S. Motivations and Stats on the State of Reshoring in 2015.

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Emergency response: Weathering the storms

Automotive Logistics

Fortunately for many OEMs and their providers, the lessons learned from hurricanes and storms like Matthew (2016), Sandy (2013) and Katrina (2005) underscored the value of developing contingency plans that helped to mitigate the potential impact from the 2017 storm season, which includes the major storms Harvey, Irma and Maria.

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Rockin Your DC With Pick Zone Punches!

Blog on Log

Those 1,000 Rockin Sockin Robots your buying department purchased a decade ago, for example, take up valuable space. Here are some strategies to consider for maintaining a lean storage profile in your DC operation. Another effective trick is to do a quick study on the buyers' behalf. Talk to your Manhattan rep.PKMS is for you!

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Limping to war

Logistics in War

An unprepared military offers political leaders few options, corrupts strategy, is inefficient and ineffective, and poses a national risk. For example, it is widely accepted that the Australian Defence Force (ADF) had little logistics capacity to sustain a large second-rotation force after intervening in East Timor in 1999.