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Automatic Replenishment: Everything You Need to Know

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Want to learn about automatic replenishment? Because this article has everything you need to know! Keep reading to find out: What automatic replenishment is How it works Who can benefit from it Its advantages and disadvantages The different types Best practices for choosing a system and vendor And lots more! Let’s dive in!

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9 Barriers to Optimal Inventory and How to Break them Down

Logistics Bureau

Those are the precise questions we’ve set out to answer in this article. For example, you can optimise for cost, profit, or service, but not for all of them. In that case, please read on, as the rest of this article is dedicated to explaining the nine fundamental factors typically contributing to suboptimal inventory levels.

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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?

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Warehouse Product Slotting: The Ultimate Guide

Logistics Bureau

If you browse through the Logistics Bureau blog, you’ll find at least two or three articles—and about the same number of videos—that cover warehouse product slotting. For example, slotting strategies often involve placing the fastest-moving SKUs close to the warehouse dispatch zones, minimising picking operatives’ travel distances and times.

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Top 6 Supply Chain KPIs: Keep Your Dashboards Simple

Logistics Bureau

“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. As an example of how illuminating the perfect order KPI can be, let’s look briefly at damage-free delivery as an example. x 0.96 = 0.8661.

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How to Deliver Great Customer Service at the Lowest Cost

Logistics Bureau

In this article we will look at the topic of customer service: getting it right in your business, understanding the implications for your distribution network, and how you can extract more value —and get more cost—out of your business. To do that we use a technique called conjoint analysis. What should the service be?

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Energy and Labour Costs: 2 Top Warehousing Challenges in 2023

Logistics Bureau

We hope the tips and ideas in this article will help you make inroads into warehouse energy and labour cost reduction. However, in this article, we’ll focus exclusively on the cost factor, drawing your attention to some questions you might ask yourself (and your team) about your facility’s energy usage.