Logistics Bureau

AUGUST 7, 2023

To kick off our brief guide, we’ll look at the challenge of managing inventory effectively across multiple sales channels. Multicha nnel Sales Complexity: Organise, Organise, Organise Does your company operate in the ecommerce sphere? So what can you do to ensure your inventory management meets the challenge of multichannel sales?

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Ship Monk

JULY 27, 2022

Keep reading to learn what demand forecasting is, why you need it, and how to implement it into your eCommerce strategy! What percentage do they account for in overall sales? How often does inventory need to be replenished? How many SKUs does it take to reach full stock? What is Demand Forecasting?

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Logistics Bureau

JULY 10, 2018

While the development of a wholly demand driven supply chain (DDSC) might not be for every enterprise, there is no doubt that many can benefit from such as strategy. “In a world that’s changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.” ” – Mark Zuckerberg.

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Logistics Bureau

AUGUST 1, 2022

Has your company ever suffered problems with, implemented, or even considered implementing a sales and operations (S&OP) planning process? Often, in our experience, the problem is a human one… It’s not the data, not the process, not the technology, or the strategy, but the people. Marketing and Sales Head(s).

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Logistics Business Magazine

AUGUST 8, 2022

Big events cause seismic ripples through this system and the recent re-introduction of paid returns is no exception. If they get it wrong, research suggests it could have a significant impact on customer retention with 62% of UK shoppers saying they would not shop again with a retailer after a poor returns experience.

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Logistics Bureau

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Inventory management is a crucial aspect of supply chain management, and effective strategies can help businesses reduce costs, improve customer service, and increase profits. But what does a great inventory management strategy look like? At that point, each SKU will be taken to any convenient storage location in the warehouse.

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GlobalTranz

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

Editor's Note: Today's blog is the second part of Chuck Intrieri's series on how procurement and suppliers can avoid issues with their contracts. In part two, Chuck focuses on how to draft your terms and conditions. How to Begin Your Terms. Writing your terms of use can be a monumental task for anyone.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

The adoption of digital strategies is a major feature of new strategies that manufacturers are planning. It may be difficult to decide how to spend a limited budget on new digital technology. Integrating quotations and sales with inventory and production functions will improve customer service.

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Logistics Business Magazine

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Edward Napier-Fenning, Sales & Marketing Director of leading supply chain software company Balloon , explores five key areas that can boost performance – including route planning, picking, labour management reporting and data entry. A minor example is some work we recently did for Birlea.

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GlobalTranz

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

For example, the reverse logistics process includes the management and the sale of surplus as well as returned equipment and machines from the hardware leasing business. Normally, logistics deal with events that bring the product towards the customer. Any process or management after the sale of the product involves reverse logistics.

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WorkWave

MARCH 29, 2023

Special projects or events : Businesses may also require additional staff for short-term projects or events outside their regular operations. Therefore, learning how to use the off-season as an opportunity to offset business costs is pivotal to a successful season.

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247 Customs Broker

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

To better understand true cost and volume impacts, Zipline Logistics evaluated a sample of 33,000 shipments, comparing data prior to the 2017 Tropical Storm Harvey with data after the event. Data shows that the Average Cost Per Load after the 8/26 hurricane went up by $159.58, or 11% and that the Average Cost Per Mile increased by 15%.

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Locus

DECEMBER 15, 2022

A survey predicts that e-commerce sales in India will hit the $100 billion mark for the first time in 2023. Delivery exceptions are circumstances where packages are temporarily delayed in transit due to unexpected events. Let’s say you are making a call after office hours to get information from the delivery company.

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Stord

JANUARY 11, 2022

From our daily engagement (and years of deep industry experience), these are some of the issues that should prove most impactful this year, and some ideas on how to overcome some of those challenges. And one particular issue has been the inability to effectively use and compare against FY20 data (with COVID considered a “ black swan ” event).

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247 Customs Broker

MARCH 26, 2018

I was having lunch with a friend of mine who had recently conducted a transportation sourcing event. There are plenty of companies using a flawed process in conducting their transportation sourcing events. As the VP of Sales for a large national truckload carrier recently told me, “Today, our negotiation strategy is indifference.

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Freightos

OCTOBER 18, 2017

And, as if choreographed, speakers from startups, carriers, and forwarders brought up example after another of where the forces of change are finally breaking through. Charley Dehoney, Exec VP Strategy and Growth at Airspace Technologies. Those forwarders embracing electronic freight sales, for instance via the Freightos Marketplace.

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GlobalTranz

AUGUST 9, 2017

Parcels are no longer bound by weight or size dimensions, and parcels can easily entail a multi-carrier shipping strategy. Surcharges have become commonplace in shipping after rising costs, notably the sudden spike in gas prices over recent years. This may also when negotiating a contract with a third-party logistics provider (3PL).

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Logistics Business Magazine

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Poor reverse logistics management – For every sale made and item shipped, there is a chance it will end with a return. How do you reduce your Scope 3 emissions? New partnerships and optimisation strategies, such as leveraging omnimodal capabilities, should be on your agenda for cutting your carbon emissions.

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Logistics Bureau

MAY 8, 2023

That’s the first big mistake I want to address in this article, after which I’ll share information about ten other freight management mistakes we commonly see at Logistics Bureau while working with clients on supply chain improvement. 1: The Mistake of Minimalist Freight Management So, what about this minimalist management issue?

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WorkWave

JULY 31, 2019

By pairing a solid organic social content strategy with a full-funnel social advertising strategy, you will gain much greater value and be able to tie efforts to actual ROI. Put this code on every single page of your website and add a lead event tracking code to all of your thank you pages, as well as any other relevant events.

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Talking Logistics

OCTOBER 9, 2018

Of course, all of this is easier said than done, but new challenges tend to require new strategies and new innovation. Freight Capacity Crisis: How Did We Get Here So Quickly? That’s assuming there are no major economic events. Here are a few ideas on how to manage through the current capacity crisis: 1.

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GlobalTranz

JANUARY 6, 2015

It’s a lot of work to effectively manage freight and that is evident as readers gobbled up posts around freight claims, freight shipment processing by understanding the documentation and how to class your freight so you can get a freight rate. After all, it helps you get better rates and more value for your money.

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GlobalTranz

JANUARY 4, 2016

After all, any professionals job is to do the best job the most cost and time efficiently all while reaching your goals. . After reading, we'd love to hear from you in the comments section below. Businesses cannot unlock the full potential of digital without reinventing their supply chain strategy. Get basics right first.

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Bringg

DECEMBER 27, 2017

With ecommerce sales reaching $23 trillion in annual sales worldwide, customers are relying on better and faster deliveries for all sort of goods and services. From the millions of data points and variables in any supply chain should come the knowledge required to determine business strategies and to support decision-making processes.

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Ship Monk

JUNE 30, 2023

We’re going to show you how to identify KPIs for your business by breaking the process down into three parts. A KPI may be a single metric, like “sales,” or a calculation that uses more than one metric, such as dividing sales by the number of orders to find the average order value in a given time period.

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Logistics Bureau

APRIL 4, 2022

At Logistics Bureau, we want to help you with that, so we’re publishing this brief guide to help you if you haven’t already included freight benchmarking in your management strategies or want to benchmark more effectively than you are now. Freight Benchmarking: How to Do it Right. Freight cost per kilogram/100 kgs/tonne.

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Logistics Bureau

JUNE 14, 2021

If, like many business leaders, you’re looking for ways to make your supply chain more resilient to major disruptions and black swan events, you might like to consider initiatives based on the following guiding principles. Indeed, in many cases, sales and orders increased. Lessons From a Pandemic.

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Logistics Bureau

DECEMBER 19, 2022

For example, slotting strategies often involve placing the fastest-moving SKUs close to the warehouse dispatch zones, minimising picking operatives’ travel distances and times. Therefore, any slotting strategy should focus on minimising such travel. So let’s move on and look at how to do it. Slotting Benefits: Summary.

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Trinity Logistics

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

This includes factoring in China’s zero-COVID strategy, which is likely to continue to disrupt both production and transportation of goods, possibly for the entire year. So, some companies might end up with an oversupply of goods after everything is said and done. The good ones are gold baby!” – Benjamin Bowne, Sales Executive . “I

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Logistics Bureau

OCTOBER 11, 2021

While the pandemic has helped ecommerce companies increase sales immeasurably, it has, at the same time, disrupted the global supply chains that so many retailers rely on and, by accelerating ecommerce sales growth so quickly, placed immense pressure on distribution networks. How to Improve Product Availability.

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Blue Grace Logistics

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

This impacts your business with inconsistent rates, uncertainty of available equipment, fulfillment strategy, and more importantly the customer experience. Labor shortages weave throughout the supply chain industry in every way, affecting drivers, warehouse workers, sales representatives, and so on. How to Overcome a Capacity Crunch.

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GlobalTranz

JUNE 29, 2016

Rather than simply initiating changes between accounts, bitcoin goes a step further by recording every motion in a long chain of events, explains Adrian Gonzales of Talking Logistics. For example, an employee that goes into the system to change past events will alter the coding of the event.

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Ship Monk

JANUARY 20, 2023

Merchandise Inventory Merchandise inventory is defined as inventory that is in stock and ready for sale (usually finished goods from a manufacturer or wholesaler), but not yet sold. When finished , the gears are considered finished goods, or merchandise inventory ready for sale.

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Automotive Logistics

JULY 13, 2018

In June, the OEM outlined a new strategy that includes ambitious targets for electric cars and autonomous vehicles, as well as a rapid rise in the volumes delivered through subscription contracts rather than sales. Every carmaker will need to fathom the supply chain implications of its strategy. . It’s a key thing,” he says.

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GlobalTranz

MAY 23, 2016

You may have to learn how to navigate a new software, or your organization may simply need additional training on a new transportation management system (TMS). In the event of an accident, an international shipment’s value could be lost without an appropriate standard of coverage, leaving the shipper to pay the full cost.

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GlobalTranz

DECEMBER 30, 2015

With that said, when we call a blog post a freight blog, it will focus more on the actual freight vs. the strategies and other factors involved beyond that freight. The 7 Best Events For Freight Shipping in 2015. Are you up-to-date with the latest events in freight shipping and logistics? Read the full Article here. .

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GlobalTranz

AUGUST 25, 2016

For example, certain types of cargo are excluded, only specific equipment and terminals are covered, losses caused by certain events are not covered, or coverage applies only if a service is performed in a certain way. Renewable policy is required for a particular value requiring renewal after policy expiration.

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