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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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4 Ways to Enhance Warehouse Efficiency with Prescriptive and Predictive Analytics

Logistics Viewpoints

While predictive analytics seeks to answer questions such as “what might happen in the future,” prescriptive analytics goes beyond by recommending the best course of action going forward. Predictive analytics can inject some intelligence into this process.

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Must-Have Features for Ecommerce Software

Ship Monk

Enter this article. Strength, Weakness, Opportunity, Threat) analysis that will help you make your best, most strategic decisions for finetuning your operation through optimal order management. Where is the package? Delivery Confirmation whereby you, the ecommerce brand, ensure your customer is aware that a package has arrived.

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Ecommerce Inventory Management: Challenges & Solutions

Logistics Bureau

Standardise and Digitise The key to managing complexity, of course, is to be organised. Naturally, there is much more to return inventory management than we have space for in this article. So what can you do to ensure your inventory management meets the challenge of multichannel sales?

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No Supply Chain Strategy? Here’s How to Develop One

Logistics Bureau

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. Your fact-finding efforts should seek to determine what your customers want in the following aspects of supply chain service: Packaging and labelling requirements.

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How to be an Eco-Friendly Ecommerce Brand

Ship Monk

Go with a More Sustainable Shipping Strategy Billions of packages are shipped just within the US every year. That includes using full pallet space, selecting the right size of packaging for orders, choosing the best option in terms of floor-loaded shipping vs. palletized shipping , knowing when to leverage freight shipping , etcetera.

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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. Does your company use incandescent, halogen, or HID lighting in its warehouses?