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Cost to Serve Analysis—And the Costs of Neglecting It

Logistics Bureau

Have you conducted a cost-to-serve (CTS) analysis for your enterprise? And that is the sole purpose of cost-to-serve analysis. If you were going to say, “What is a cost-to-serve analysis?” Only a complete cost-to-serve analysis will expose these underlying issues unless they happen to be discovered incidentally.

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Know Your Supply Chain KPIs – Procurement

Logistics Bureau

For example, you might use simple observation to identify visible defects at goods-in, or you could make your analysis a bit deeper by testing a percentage of items received from the supplier. In procurement, cost analysis is not just about the price of your company’s purchases. Cost per Purchase Order and Cost per Invoice.

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Energy and Labour Costs: 2 Top Warehousing Challenges in 2023

Logistics Bureau

Of course, there is no quick and easy way to curb increases in the cost of energy and labour, but now is an excellent time to start thinking about practical ways to reduce energy usage and increase labour productivity and efficiency. A warehouse benchmarking exercise is an excellent way to start the quest for improvement opportunities.

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Sales and Operations Planning: The Interpersonal Element

Logistics Bureau

In this article, we’ll explain why that should be and how your company can avoid S&OP problems by investing correctly in the people and their interrelationships , without which it’s simply impossible to tie the moving parts of S&OP together. S&OP is ostensibly a numbers game, of course. The Executive Sponsor.

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Preparing for preparedness – how should we begin?

Logistics in War

Of course additional funding and attention can improve the capability and capacity of any military force to sustain itself in peace and on operations. These articles might suggest to some that any attempts to devote time to addressing logistics readiness are likely to fail. I described the interplay between logistics and readiness.

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The Power of Outsourcing for Supply Chain Improvement

Logistics Bureau

In this article, I will redress the balance by exploring outsourcing from a more holistic perspective, focusing on ways to consider outsourcing partnerships for improvement throughout the supply chain. However, I can’t recall writing a general guide about exploiting outsourcing opportunities to improve your supply chain.

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Preparing for preparedness – how should we begin?

Logistics in War

Of course additional funding and attention can improve the capability and capacity of any military force to sustain itself in peace and on operations. These articles might suggest to some that any attempts to devote time to addressing logistics readiness are likely to fail. I described the interplay between logistics and readiness.