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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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6 Types of Automation [Benefits, Pros/Cons, Examples]

Conger

Examples of automation range from a household thermostat to a large industrial control system, self-driven vehicles, and warehousing robots. Examples are industrial robots and multipurpose CNC machines. For example, full warehouse automation to support event-driven, mission-critical system delivery.

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What are the Advantages of Using a NVOCC?

MTS Logistics

For the differences between freight forwarders and NVOCCs, please read this article. There are multiple reasons for this, and to learn more read this great article by MTS Logistics Executive Vice President M. This will enable you to send your documents on time to your own customers.

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How to Innovate Your Supply Chain Management: What You Need to Know

3PL Links

Thus, it covers every aspect of a product’s life cycle, from the acquisition of its inputs to its transformation, storage, transport, packaging, sale, and distribution, among other activities. Ikea’s packaging design is a well-known example to help with this matter. How to innovate?

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An 8-point Guide to Understanding Your Cost to Serve

Logistics Bureau

Let’s start with an uncomplicated example: Company A is in the business of distributing whiteboard markers. If they are going to understand their cost to serve, they need to know the cost of shipping, for example, the green one to a customer. Let’s take allocation of fixed warehouse costs as an example.

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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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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. For example, you don’t want to assume that a single logistics strategy and service approach will meet all your customers’ needs. It may do, but how do you know?