Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

It’s hard to believe that after so many years, a legend of Boston has officially called it quits. A post earlier this week on Facebook read “After decades of brotherhood, touring the world and making great records together, we have decided to no longer continue on as a band. So after nearly forty years, I say thanks for the memories.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

AUGUST 1, 2022

A Bill of Materials (BOM) is a comprehensive list of all the items needed to manufacture a product. A BOM may be a relatively simple document or a complex, multi-levelled product description made from multiple sub-assemblies. First, keeping track of the production process is very beneficial. What is a Bill of Materials?

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 23, 2024

Returns are clearly a big problem in retail, especially after the holiday season. This allows the retailers to eliminate wasted miles and get the item into the appropriate location for re-sale. In some cases, a customer can cancel or change the shipping location after the item has been picked and packed.

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3PL Links

AUGUST 2, 2023

In terms of how RPA helps improve the agility and quality of supply chain processes, the tool makes it possible to manage invoicing more effectively by automating actions like sending purchase orders and downloading and uploading documents and receipts.

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FreightWaves SONAR

APRIL 16, 2024

Bill of lading data The bill of lading is among the most referenced and misunderstood documents in logistics. It is a required document that serves as a digital receipt of services and a working contract. After all, the industry still relies on trucking, even if only for final mile delivery, for every shipment in some form.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 26, 2023

After a couple of years in software design and development, I moved to professional services, managing WMS implementations. WMS products were not nearly as configurable then as they are today, so implementation timelines and teams were often larger. It has to be a priority and involves a significant investment of time.

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GlobalTranz

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

Among e-commerce sales, up to 30 percent will be returned to the shipper, which reflects a huge demand for effective returns management and reverse-logistics process standardization. Warehouse Managers Underestimate the Importance and Demand of Reverse Logistics Brick-and-mortar sales are associated with an 8.9-percent

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WorkWave

MARCH 3, 2022

Some businesses adjust hours to accommodate fewer sales. If you’re not sure whether your business experiences an off-season, take a moment to review total sales — and total foot-traffic numbers if you run an in-person business. If possible, take a look at sales and traffic totals over a multi-year period.

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Dedola Global Logistics

MAY 21, 2021

It is crucial to consider the product’s dimensions after packaging when shipping via air freight. Depending on what you are shipping, there could be packaging requirements to keep the product safe during flight. This precaution maintains product safety. Include All Proper Documentation. Direct Service vs.

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WorkWave

MAY 24, 2024

From this, you can begin to benchmark your company’s valuation, identify potential buyers and even gain contacts as you begin exploring a company sale. Analyze your revenue and profitability by service, product line or other segments your business operates. WorkWave : What parts of your business bring the most value to the buyer?

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Globalior

JUNE 20, 2020

Importation refers to the process of bringing goods; either from an FTZ (Free Trade Zone) or any other entry point into a Customs territory, or bringing overseas products into an FTZ for storage and/or re-export. You are obliged to notify Singapore’s Customs if you are intending to import products into the country.

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Logistics at MPEPS at UPV

MARCH 13, 2023

This structure removes redundancy from the information and makes it error-proof, but it leads to slow information gathering in case there is a lot of information stored (the delay can be noticeable after half a minute).

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MTS Logistics

JULY 21, 2021

Working and studying from home decreased the usage of paper documents and increased the need for electronic documents. Businesses are still trying to find methods to keep their efficiency and productivity under control and reinterpret traditional work models with an innovative approach and use technology more effectively.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

“Ipsen’s strategic future was characterized by sales growth and frequent product launches.” As the supply chain team contemplated this growth, they realized that they had to envision a future, not that many years out, where the company could be generating up to three times their current sales.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

For supply chain executives, this is a good time to start contemplating stock keeping unit (SKU) reductions (reducing the number of products and product variations manufactured). Can the product be redesigned with lower cost substitute inputs? Companies also tend to be slow to cut production. The Pending Recession.

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Blue Grace Logistics

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

TO MAINTAIN PRODUCT VALUE OR INTEGRITY While some expedited shipments still result from a hiccup in forecasting or operations, several other reasons can come into play. Companies that work with perishable products, whether literal or practical, often use expedited services to ensure products arrive while they still have value.

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Globalior

JANUARY 10, 2021

HS code engineering or tariff engineering is the term used to describe a broad set of activities undertaken to change the way a product is classified under WCO’s harmonized system nomenclature for the classification of products. Reviewing product information to reassess essential character.

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Blue Grace Logistics

AUGUST 3, 2021

Here are five tips to build, maintain, and improve a healthy and productive relationship with your suppliers. After-sales service. Create a documented process that will help guide your team through the management and administration of suppliers. Usually, the selection should not depend on a single criterion.

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Logistics Business Magazine

APRIL 17, 2024

Unlocking customer experience is the critical role of your supply chain, writes Roy Arguelles, Senior Vice President of Supply Chain Sales, QAD. In today’s marketplace, where products and services proliferate and competition intensifies, businesses are realizing that they need to offer more than just commodities to thrive.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 2, 2023

After months of dire predictions, many in the financial community are lowering the odds of a recession in the next year. But “9% of the companies didn’t simply recover in the three years after a recession — they flourished, outperforming competitors by at least 10% in sales and profits growth.” Reduced working capital.

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3PL Links

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Reverse logistics is in the same predicament as the product inflow into warehouses 20 years ago, when businesses were more concerned with the product outflow. From the very beginning of the product development process, refunds should be taken into account. From challenging issue to tactical advantage.

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Forto

AUGUST 3, 2020

Deal with the customs formalities – also to be able to calculate your sales prices exactly. Manufacturers in China often produce articles much cheaper, so the profit margins in sales are therefore higher. After all, what good are articles that you are not allowed to market here?

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CH Robinson Logistics

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Research shows that global retail e-commerce sales are projected to reach 3.9 dollars in online retail sales. This year, Alibaba’s Single Days sales set record 74.1 Here are some facts: Shipping congestions and delays are expected during major shopping promotions such as Black Friday, Thanksgiving, Cyber Monday, Alibaba’s 11.11

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FreightWaves SONAR

APRIL 2, 2021

Bill of lading data The bill of lading is among the most referenced and misunderstood documents in logistics. It is a required document that serves as a digital receipt of services and a working contract. After all, the industry still relies on trucking, even if only for final mile delivery, for every shipment in some form.

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GoShip Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Some examples of CPGs are personal hygiene products, food, beverages, and cosmetics. That is why many brands invest millions – if not billions into their marketing to ensure their products keep selling out. The 4 Types of CPGs Consumer habits, price, and product characteristics affect how products are categorized.

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GlobalTranz

APRIL 28, 2015

After each blog post, we distribute each blog post via email to all of our blog subscribers (you can subscribe by scrolling at least 50% down this page and filling out your email in the box that will come up in the lower left). However, it is still possible to file a concealed damage claim after 5 days, it is just more difficult.

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Locus

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Time to value is the time customers spend to derive value from the purchased product. By value, we mean the benefit a customer expects from a product. Time to basic value Time to basic value is the lowest time a customer takes to realize the most negligible value from a product or service.

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Dedola Global Logistics

MAY 21, 2021

It is crucial to consider the product’s dimensions after packaging when shipping via air freight. Special Commodities Such as Electronics Depending on what you are shipping, there could be packaging requirements to keep the product safe during flight. This precaution maintains product safety. Direct Service vs.

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Logistics Business Magazine

JULY 29, 2021

Apart from this, our customers profit from our global sales and service network. BOWE SYSTEC will represent the traditional document and mail processing segment. With a broad product portfolio and expertise, BOWE INTRALOGISTICS provides full-service intralogistics solutions. Three independent divisions.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

OCTOBER 13, 2021

” That is how people can feel after an ERP system has been implemented. After a long project, your organization has finally gone live with an ERP system that allows the company to automate and integrate the majority of its business processes , share common data across all functions, and produce and access information in real-time.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 20, 2023

billion after a funding round. A graph database stores nodes and relationships instead of tables, or documents. If you take a big consumer goods company, you don’t need to just model products and customers,” o9’s CEO explained. A unicorn has a valuation of over $1 billion. One of the more interesting is o9 Solutions.

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Ship Monk

APRIL 26, 2023

Nowadays 2-Day shipping is a part of the normal online retail experience because the first thing customers typically think after identifying something they want is how fast they can get it. If you place an order on Wednesday after the 3PM cutoff, it delivers on Saturday. This is the case if the company has a flat 2 day policy though.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 1, 2022

After voting for independence, Congress turned its attention to the Declaration of Independence. Most historians have concluded that the Declaration was signed nearly a month after its adoption, on August 2, 1776, and not on July 4 as is commonly believed. The company’s commitment also involves supporting drivers’ well-being.

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Logistics Bureau

JULY 18, 2022

As a result, and as we’ve mentioned in several previously published articles, we’ve discovered that many companies lack a defined and documented supply chain strategy. Step 5: Consider Productivity and Visibility. After all, even extensive articles dedicated to the topic can barely scratch the surface.

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Logistics Business Magazine

JULY 19, 2023

On the one hand, the market is softening and the capacity crunch is reducing after tightening in 2021 and the first half of 2022. However, at the same time, impending recession and rising inflation is causing production demand to drop and prices to rise. Indeed, the future prognosis for the global FMCG market is generally positive.

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GoShip Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

of retail sales in the US were returned in 2021, and up to 10% of these returns were fraudulent. Swapping merchandise: This is when a fraudulent customer buys a new product and returns a damaged or old copy in its place. Return fraud is detrimental to sales and overall profitability. Handling fraudulent returns after the fact.

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Blue Grace Logistics

DECEMBER 18, 2018

Apart from the road, rail, air, and sea transport and warehouse operators, the term connected logistics also includes customer service teams, manufacturing, production planners, inventory planners, and the sales team. All these teams have responsibility for processes that are necessary to deliver the final product to the end consumer.

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