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Sales and Operations Planning: The Interpersonal Element

Logistics Bureau

Has your company ever suffered problems with, implemented, or even considered implementing a sales and operations (S&OP) planning process? More to the point, though, for S&OP to be effective, it matters not whether a company uses Excel spreadsheets or the latest best-of-breed sales and operations planning software.

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Cost to Serve Analysis—And the Costs of Neglecting It

Logistics Bureau

If you can only say “No”, I will not be surprised, because many companies have never drilled down into the costs involved in selling specific SKU categories, individual SKUs, or providing particular services connected with those sales, to specific customers or customer categories. And that is the sole purpose of cost-to-serve analysis.

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Consumer Packaged Goods: How CPG Shipping Works

GoShip Blog

Some examples of CPGs are personal hygiene products, food, beverages, and cosmetics. Conditions such as the freight container’s temperatures and the care exercised during loading and unloading are carefully considered when transporting specialty goods. These are products consumers only buy after some research and comparison.

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BD Achieves End-to-End Supply Chain Visibility

Logistics Viewpoints

The company had access to huge amounts of trade data, for example. In an article, I voiced my skepticism and said that I believed using AI to solve this problem would lead to huge number of false positives. They came back after three days and said “we’ve got the mapping for you.” Finally, the tool is a sales tool.

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How to Select the Right KPIs for Supply Chain Benchmarking

Logistics Bureau

In answering that question, we’re not going to provide you with a list of possible supply chain KPIs to use in your business—at least, not in this article. Because you can find plenty of other articles on this blog and the Logistics Bureau blog if you’d like to peruse such lists. Conflicting KPIs: A Brief Example.

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High Ocean Freight Rates Might Spoil Holiday Season Shopping This Year

Turvo

In such tricky times, exercising forward-thinking and planning shipments in advance can help businesses take advantage of the holiday season. The Meishan terminal at the Ningbo-Zhoushan Port shutdown is the perfect example of this. The Rippling Effect of the Covid-19 Pandemic and Other Shipping Challenges.

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Freight Benchmarking: What Is It? Why Do It?

Logistics Bureau

Improved ability to predict and manage trends: After you’ve spent a while working with freight benchmarks, you’ll get a feel for the directions of seasonal rate fluctuations and other pricing trends. It will also make it easier to determine, for example, if you should opt for contract rates over spot rates or vice versa.