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

Logistics Bureau

As you’ll know, if you follow our blog regularly, Logistics Bureau does a great deal of work related to supply chain strategy development and alignment. 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.

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4 Ways to Enhance Warehouse Efficiency with Prescriptive and Predictive Analytics

Logistics Viewpoints

In this article, we will actively explore how predictive and prescriptive analytics can significantly enhance efficiency in several diverse aspects of warehouse operations. The models offer prescriptive analytics, leveraging data on order history, batching and pathing patterns, and warehouse layout to recommend optimal slotting strategies.

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

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How to Innovate Your Supply Chain Management: What You Need to Know | Image Source: Axestrack Organizations must prioritize supply chain management and implement strategies to increase its efficiency if they want to compete in the market. Given the variety of products and business strategies, supply chain management is not a static concept.

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5 Budget-Friendly Tips for Ecommerce Brands

Ship Monk

This is a plethora of articles, but at ShipMonk we know that one of the few cases of overpreparing that doesn’t hurt is when you’re absorbing as much information as possible about best ways to project your budget. In other words: Whatever inventory system and distribution strategy you go with, you want to order enough but not excess.

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Ecommerce Inventory Management: Challenges & Solutions

Logistics Bureau

The ecommerce logistics practitioner must instead integrate reverse logistics into his or her company’s inventory management strategies and processes. Naturally, there is much more to return inventory management than we have space for in this article. SKU proliferation is challenging retailers, in particular, to an unprecedented level.

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What is Lean Logistics? 5 Ways to Manage Lean Logistics Effectively

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For all supply chain managers looking to simplify their logistics, this article offers a tried-and-true method. This article details the essential transformation process and a workable technique for implementing lean logistics. Identify customer benefits: value stream analysis for supply chain management What exactly is a value stream?