ShipLilly

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

A logistical analysis and important tips for businesses. This article considers some of the indicators to consider if outsourcing might be the solution for your needs. Of course, there are those who have an aggressive business strategy right from the outset. There are two sides to the cost-benefit analysis.

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Logistics Bureau

AUGUST 7, 2023

Standardise and Digitise The key to managing complexity, of course, is to be organised. Here at Logistics Bureau, we help ecommerce companies to identify and apply the necessary techniques to heighten demand forecasting and become more competitive. Try to establish consistency in the identification of your company’s products.

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Logistics Bureau

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

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. Here at Logistics Bureau, we’ve been helping warehouse operators with layout optimisation for decades.

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Logistics Bureau

APRIL 3, 2023

To date, most of our content has covered topics related either to logistics or manufacturing outsourcing. 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.

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Logistics Bureau

AUGUST 1, 2022

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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Logistics Bureau

JANUARY 3, 2018

It’s that time when idle chatter at the office Christmas lunch turns to debating what next year will bring, especially among logistics and supply chain professionals, for whom it seems every New Year brings new challenges, trends, and disruptive innovations. 2018 Trend #2: Big Data and Advanced Analytics in the Cloud.

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Logistics Bureau

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

So if you’re one of those people who can absorb information more readily by reading, and have an interest in what’s happening in the world of healthcare logistics, the following transcript should be a valuable source of enlightenment for you. Health Supply Chains Present Complex Challenges. Kenya is a big exception.

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Ship Monk

MARCH 30, 2024

When ShipMonk started, one of the driving forces was shaking up the long-static logistics industry with innovation that would allow ecommerce brands to grow and scale optimally. Check out our Section 321 FAQs and supplementary article on why Section 321 is your solution to import savings. Have more questions?

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Logistics Bureau

AUGUST 2, 2021

On this blog and the one published by our sister company Logistics Bureau, we often receive questions relating to metrics suitable for monitoring procurement performance. In procurement, cost analysis is not just about the price of your company’s purchases. 7 Procurement KPIs You Should be Using. Best Regards, Rob O’Byrne.

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Freightos

APRIL 27, 2023

In this article, Eytan Buchman, Freightos’ CMO, discusses the importance of data and context in global freight and logistics. Legibility, followed by analysis and the ability to take action can literally change industries. This was, of course, an extremely popular use case for market data.

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Morai Logistics

JANUARY 1, 2020

2019’s over, but there’s plenty of technology to look back on over the course of the year to see what affects it had on supply chains. This article by Morai Logistics underscores many of the most significant developments in supply chain technology in 2019. Nonetheless, there’s plenty more to cover. Blockchain.

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Logistics Bureau

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

You are not alone, especially as in the time since we first penned this article, one huge and unforeseen event has raised awareness of the global importance of this vital sector—and shown it to be an attractive career choice. And now let us examine the reasons why a career in logistics offers so much diversity to so many workers.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

When you can barely see beyond the bow of the ship, when extreme wind and waves threaten to throw you off course – or worse, sink you – it’s understandable that long-term thinking can get chucked overboard like so much extra ballast. I can only imagine what it must be like to be at sea during a major storm. He lives in Chicago.

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Logistics in War

SEPTEMBER 1, 2019

Logistics In War has been exploring preparedness and logistics in a series of articles over the last three months. The role of logistics in preparedness is self-evident. However, while we know that this is the case, it has been difficult to rationally or accurately state why it is or ‘how much logistics is truly enough?’.

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Logistics Bureau

APRIL 12, 2021

For that reason, companies will usually establish one warehouse on the east coast and another on the west coast, depending, of course, on the service offer. If you want a really robust analysis that compares this distribution network with that distribution network, that’s when you need to adopt this kind of very detailed approach.

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Logistics Bureau

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Who would have thought that measuring the performance of supply chain processes like warehousing, procurement, or logistics could be so troublesome? Well, we know a few supply chain managers who, having made some of the mistakes covered by this article, would attest to the potential for difficulty.

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Logistics in War

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

At the operational and tactical level, East Timor may not be a great case study for combat arms officers however for the logistician [1] , there are lessons to be learned at every level from the Commander Joint Logistics down to the private soldier. My decision to write something on this topic was prompted by two factors.

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Logistics Bureau

MAY 24, 2021

Of course, all these guidelines and formulas portray an over-simplified approach to calculating safety stock levels, and your company’s supply chain will doubtless be subject to specific conditions and circumstances that you’ll need to include in your reasoning. Perhaps it’s time for your company to take a more scientific approach.

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3PL Links

MARCH 21, 2023

In order to ensure that your organization can take safeguards, we will discuss the key supply chain risks in this article as well as how to measure supply chain performance. Of course, it is impossible to totally eliminate this kind of risk. There are many risks in the supply chain because it is a complicated operation.

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Logistics Bureau

OCTOBER 20, 2021

“Paralysis by analysis” is a common term used to describe such a situation, and you can avoid it by monitoring a smaller number of carefully chosen KPIs. Use weekly, monthly, and year-on-year data for your analysis. That means your executive team can see the six top KPIs as recommended in this article at a glance.

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Logistics Bureau

APRIL 4, 2022

The answer is to benchmark your freight, of course. 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.

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Logistics Bureau

JULY 11, 2022

These KPIs should all be applicable to your supply chain operation, subject to some tweaking to reflect the precise characteristics of your inbound logistics and purchasing functions. None of these KPIs require sophisticated analytics capability and most can be managed even without enterprise business software.

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Logistics at MPEPS at UPV

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

Doing the research for an Unit Load analysis for products in supermarkets for the logistics course, I came over a really interested, related topic: the product placement in supermarkets. If you are interested, you can read more in these articles: – [link] – [link] – [link].

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Logistics in War

FEBRUARY 8, 2020

This narrow focus of this article is on the materiel aspects of ‘self-reliance’, and provides a starting point for a conversation that the ADF must have. Often these conversations end when the scale of the logistics problem is revealed. It is, of course, prudent to be as self-reliant as practicable.

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Logistics in War

AUGUST 18, 2019

Logistics readiness refers to the ability to undertake, to build up and thereafter to sustain, combat operations at the full combat potential of forces. [1]. Logistics readiness is not just a matter of prioritising Defence resources. I described the interplay between logistics and readiness. By David Beaumont.

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Supply Chain Brain

MAY 16, 2018

The chip records everything about the pallet's journey in real time: temperature, humidity, accidents and, of course, whereabouts. The high-tech pallets have logistics experts doing cartwheels. "Today " Read full article. "And God forbid there's a recall."

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247 Customs Broker

MAY 8, 2018

Related Articles. Møller – Maersk’s new financial reporting structure, effective from the first quarter, coincides with its strategy to become a global integrator of container logistics with one bottom line. Maersk’s new structure relies less on freight rates. Port Canaveral demolition begins.

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GlobalTranz

APRIL 30, 2015

The second article in our series on identifying supplier risk explores what to look for during on-site evaluations. Specifically, in the transportation and logistics industry it can be very beneficial to visit your carriers in person. In our last post , we discussed how to spot risky behavior when communicating with suppliers.

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The Logistics of Logistics

JUNE 30, 2022

55 Supply Chain & Logistics Experts You Should Follow on Social. Original Article: 55 Supply Chain & Logistics Experts You Should Follow on Social. Sarah takes the most complex supply chain and logistics subjects and explains them effortlessly to all audiences. . Lisa Anderson. Twitter: @LisaAndersonLMA.

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Supply Chain Brain

MAY 15, 2018

The course the government decides on will determine what burden exporters face, and whether it’s still viable for them to trade with the EU and with third countries Britain now has trade agreements with as a member of the bloc. Read full article.

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Logistics in War

MARCH 6, 2020

Logistics readiness refers to the ability to undertake, to build up and thereafter to sustain, combat operations at the full combat potential of forces. [1]. Logistics readiness is not just a matter of prioritising Defence resources. I described the interplay between logistics and readiness. By David Beaumont.

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Logistics Bureau

JANUARY 21, 2020

As online retail has become such a massive catalyst for changes in supply chain and logistics thinking and practice over the last few years, I thought it worth greeting the New Year with a brief look at the ecommerce sector and how some of its players have performed in 2019. Logistics: A Critical Strategic Element for Online Retail Success.

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247 Customs Broker

MARCH 7, 2018

The rapid growth of ecommerce is driving deep changes in logistics, from tightening up trucking capacity to elevating the importance of final-mile delivery processes. Read the Article: 8 Fundamentals for Achieving Artificial Intelligence Success in the Supply Chain.

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Logistics Bureau

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Quality and Detail of Data and its Analysis In some of our earlier posts, we’ve stressed the importance of simplicity in distribution network design , and we will return to that topic later in this article. It’s not a short list, so we’ll set it down here as a summary to help you with plans for analysis.

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Logistics Bureau

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

If you follow our blog, you’ll know that we often post articles about logistics outsourcing. In this article, we will revisit the logistics outsourcing topic by looking at the various reasons companies fall back on to justify a decision to outsource logistics or keep it in-house.

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Logistics Bureau

JANUARY 7, 2020

Of course, it is helpful to have some statistics on hand to validate the statement above. As a result, the newly merged company developed a systematic methodology for network design optimisation, based on the following four principles: A continual process of high-powered modelling and network design analysis.

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Logistics Business Magazine

JANUARY 19, 2022

The driverless transport vehicle with a lifting height of up to six metres is the first AGV from the Hanseatic company that was developed for purely automated use in logistics and production. The order-picking module with gantry robots enables efficient handling of a heterogeneous range of articles and is characterised by high scalability.

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