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Seven Important Skills Every Supply Chain Leader Needs

Blue Grace Logistics

However, good leadership skills and information savviness alone are not enough to handle the supply chain function and manage the team. There are other necessary capabilities apart from business know-how and general leadership skills that a supply chain leader needs to lead the function efficiently and effectively.

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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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How to Get a Job in the Supply Chain Sector

Logistics Bureau

For example, a member of the sales team could apply to become a purchasing agent, based on her experience of negotiating sales deals. In a nutshell, the pandemic has increased the importance of supply chain, posited it as a ‘cool’ career choice, and strengthened the need for job seekers to improve their supply chain skill sets.

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How to Lower Your Ecommerce Shipping Costs

Ship Monk

Large shippers, such as retailers, marketplaces, and fulfillment or logistics companies, may be able to negotiate caps on annual rate increases. Large shippers may be able to negotiate waivers for certain surcharges, but have no control over the surcharges they do pay.

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How to create a reliable supply chain with effective forecasting and inventory management

SYSPRO Smarter ERP

Despite record layoffs in many industries, Canadian manufacturers face a skills shortage in key positions in operations and across the supply chain. Adequate cross training is not occurring fast enough to fill the gap. Click here to learn more about SYSPRO’s MRP solutions and how to plan and manage uncertainty. Talent gaps: ?

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Schneider Electric’s Works with EcoVadis to Drive Supplier Emissions Engagment

Logistics Viewpoints

Suppliers are facing increasing pressure from the buyers of their goods and services to report their environmental, social, and governance data. The data collected from the assessment is used to provide an internal sustainability scorecard that is shared by the supplier to their customers (the buyers).

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Logistics Planning 2024: How To Carry out Logistical Planning for This Year

3PL Links

Image source: Flickr | Logistics Planning 2024: How To Carry out Logistical Planning for This Year Have you ever given the recent evolution of logistics any thought? Read also: How to Make Reverse Packaging Logistics More Efficient? How to carry out logistical planning for 2024? Why is logistical planning necessary?