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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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Continuing Education For Licensed Customs Brokers

MTS Logistics

Information on the accreditation process and details on courses offered by CBP and PGAs will be posted on the CBP website as they become available. For those who are unsure what a customs broker does, here is a quick summary of the role of customs brokers: Assists clients with the importation of goods into the U.S.

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Are your L&D programs reaping the outcomes you need?

UL EHS- Sustainability

But the most successful learning and development teams also understand how to measure the success of each training course and react accordingly. A training needs analysis (TNA) will identify where employee training can make a meaningful contribution towards improving performance. When conducting a TNA: 1.

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Know Your Supply Chain KPIs – Procurement

Logistics Bureau

For example, you might use simple observation to identify visible defects at goods-in, or you could make your analysis a bit deeper by testing a percentage of items received from the supplier. In procurement, cost analysis is not just about the price of your company’s purchases. Supplier Defect Rate.

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Energy and Labour Costs: 2 Top Warehousing Challenges in 2023

Logistics Bureau

Of course, there is no quick and easy way to curb increases in the cost of energy and labour, but now is an excellent time to start thinking about practical ways to reduce energy usage and increase labour productivity and efficiency. A warehouse benchmarking exercise is an excellent way to start the quest for improvement opportunities.

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Preparing for preparedness – how should we begin?

Logistics in War

Of course additional funding and attention can improve the capability and capacity of any military force to sustain itself in peace and on operations. Part Two offered examples where militaries get it right, and a number of examples where events did not transpire as well as they might.

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The Power of Outsourcing for Supply Chain Improvement

Logistics Bureau

So, for example, outsourcing sales activity is not typically a good idea if yours is a retail sales company. But, of course, what those circumstances are is for you to decide. Let’s take ecommerce as an example. But just because you can outsource it all doesn’t mean you should.