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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. A warehouse benchmarking exercise is an excellent way to start the quest for improvement opportunities. LMS applications can help with real-time workforce tracking, performance analysis, and scheduling.

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[INFOGRAPHIC] How to Become a Freight Broker: Your Ultimate Guide

GlobalTranz

Turning on your business know-how is important too, because you need careful analysis and critical thinking to make the best of existing opportunities. In general, the best tip to reduce the price you have to pay for your freight broker bond is to work on improving your credit score. Get Started!

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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. It also stands to reason that when you undertake a slotting exercise, you should think about it from the perspective of these activities. 4 Bonus Slotting Tips.

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How manufacturers and distributors can mitigate disruption in the global supply chain

SYSPRO Smarter ERP

This is to avoid more costly routes such as the Panama Canal or taking the long haul around the tip of Africa or South America. To assist with the short-term solution, the answer is an extensive data-gathering exercise. Use data to improve operations.

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Omnichannel Retail and the Cost to Serve Online Customers

Logistics Bureau

The tips in this article will help you know how to identify the customers, products, and processes that might be inflating your cost to serve (CTS) unnecessarily. Detailed cost-to-serve analysis can be complex and time-consuming, so it’s a good idea to break the task down by priority and target specific areas on which to concentrate.

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11 Golden Rules for Meaningful Supply Chain KPIs

Logistics Bureau

In an attempt to help you keep your supply chain organisation from analysis paralysis, metric manipulation, or measurement misnomers, I decided to use this post to share nine important guidelines, or golden rules, for benchmarking your business and monitoring performance using meaningful supply chain KPIs.

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For Your Supply Chain KPIs to be Meaningful, Apply Some Golden Rules

Logistics Bureau

In an attempt to help you keep your supply chain organisation from analysis paralysis, metric manipulation, or measurement misnomers, I decided to use this post to share nine important guidelines, or golden rules, for benchmarking your business and monitoring performance using meaningful supply chain KPIs.