Logistics Bureau

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

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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Logistics Bureau

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

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.

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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. But what makes it so challenging to implement S&OP successfully?

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Logistics Bureau

JULY 18, 2022

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. Step 2: Gap Analysis – Customer Requirements and Supply Chain Trends. After all, even extensive articles dedicated to the topic can barely scratch the surface.

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Logistics Bureau

APRIL 4, 2022

Here is an overview of the most valuable benefits: More informed freight spending: Because freight benchmarking involves the analysis of carriers and the rates paid by companies using them, it gives you an evolving picture of clarity about your freight spending. Freight Benchmarking: How to Do it Right.

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GlobalTranz

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

Overused and misunderstood in blog posts and informative articles, “big data” describes the use of data to improve your operation, which includes shipping, warehousing, and supply chain processes. If a vendor fails to deliver product as specified, the vendor may be advised of how future violations will affect contractual obligations.

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Logistics in War

MARCH 23, 2018

Rather than using intuition to inform decisions, people often retreat behind analysis to avoid choosing between difficult options. Even if analysis is used to inform judgements, decisions at the highest level will tend to be intuitive and influenced by a range of factors. This article was originally posted in November 2017. [1]

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