Logistics Bureau

AUGUST 7, 2023

Standardise and Digitise The key to managing complexity, of course, is to be organised. You’re ordering more stock than you need so you can meet vendor minimum order quantities. The ecommerce logistics practitioner must instead integrate reverse logistics into his or her company’s inventory management strategies and processes.

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Logistics Bureau

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Before we look at the barriers to optimal inventory and the possible ways to eliminate or overcome them, let’s be clear on what inventory optimisation means—because misconceptions do abound. For example, you can optimise for cost, profit, or service, but not for all of them. Inventory Optimisation: A Clarification.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Supply chain vendors have been touting their investments in artificial intelligence (AI) for the last several years. In the course of updating our annual research on the supply chain planning market , I talked to executives across the industry. Lead times, for example, are a critical form of master data for planning purposes.

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Logistics Bureau

JANUARY 7, 2020

Of course, it is helpful to have some statistics on hand to validate the statement above. Supply chain strategy is critical to business success, but companies often underestimate its importance and hence pay it less leadership attention than other areas of operation. Supply Chain Strategy. What’s wrong with this picture?

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Logistics Bureau

JANUARY 9, 2019

Of course, it is helpful to have some statistics on hand to validate the statement above. Supply chain strategy is critical to business success, but companies often underestimate its importance and hence pay it less leadership attention than other areas of operation. Supply Chain Strategy. Mini Case Study: Walmart.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

The organization realized that everything they had saved over the last 10 years by contracting with a preferred vendor, they lost in three months when they had to go off contract and find alternative suppliers. Of course it would! This analysis surfaced the need for alternative suppliers for these products.

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Blue Grace Logistics

JULY 21, 2020

It’s about understanding why key stakeholders which should include, vendors, purchasing, customer service, sales, are making the decisions that they do and how those decisions affect your supply chain. For example, technology helps to maximize efficiency and, in turn, increase profitability. Enhanced control over shipment scheduling.

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Ship Monk

APRIL 28, 2023

In addition to satisfying conscientious consumer demand, eco-friendly efforts can benefit your ecommerce business by reducing waste within your company and improving operational efficiencies. Translation: these ecommerce businesses have operating standards that minimize or reduce negative impact on the planet.

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GlobalTranz

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

The most common complaint of newer companies using big data analytics capabilities tends to revolve around traditional questions of business strategy. Consider the following elements explains John Richardson of Inbound Logistics, that impact business strategy. Increasing order efficiency. Demand forecasts. The quantity of each product.

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AIMMS

JULY 15, 2019

While I’d be first to concede that there are some incredible S&OP tools out there (I particularly admire Kinaxis and OM Partners), it’s incredible that we can play on the same pitch with these large COTS vendors so quickly. Analytics will play an increasingly important role in S&OP . A focus on Digital Twins .

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Transporeon

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

As a simple example, if you have 100 lanes with 10 offers per lane, that number would be 100 10 , or 100,000,000,000,000,000,000. Added to that, there is a global directive to reduce outbound logistics complexity, and therefore only two suppliers per facility may be awarded export business. On behalf of a U.S.-based

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Logistics Bureau

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

For example, a member of the sales team could apply to become a purchasing agent, based on her experience of negotiating sales deals. For example, you can be doing finance in supply chain, or you can be doing operations. You could be particularly numerate, or into analysis. Sea Change—A Supply Chain Career is now seen as ‘Cool’.

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AIMMS

JULY 15, 2019

While I’d be first to concede that there are some incredible S&OP tools out there (I particularly admire Kinaxis and OM Partners), it’s incredible that we can play on the same pitch with these large COTS vendors so quickly. Analytics will play an increasingly important role in S&OP . – Tweet this. A focus on Digital Twins .

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Logistics Bureau

APRIL 4, 2022

The answer is to benchmark your freight, of course. At Logistics Bureau, we want to help you with that, so we’re publishing this brief guide to help you if you haven’t already included freight benchmarking in your management strategies or want to benchmark more effectively than you are now.

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Logistics Bureau

JANUARY 3, 2018

It’s also the time when I start to think about sharing my thoughts on trends for the coming year , but of course, stop short of trying to make predictions. Ask questions later” approach to multi-channel and omnichannel strategies in their haste to avoid losing sales to ecommerce giants like Amazon.

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Freightos

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

A 20,000 metric tons reduction in emissions. Freightos’ VP of Architecture, Noam Fraenkel, who has led Big Data and technology teams at Hewlett-Packard and Mercury, splits data trends at large companies into two categories: data analysis and data functionality. Big Data Analysis. In 2011, UPS trucks drove 20.4 The result?

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Supply Chain Brain

APRIL 4, 2018

Specifically, they are inferring pose for articulated motion analysis in crowded scenarios. For example, the current setup has a dense array of cameras which we assume is probably required to make this all work. Of course, privacy concerns will need to be considered in all of this as well. The Future of Sentient Buildings.

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Automotive Logistics

JULY 13, 2018

In June, the OEM outlined a new strategy that includes ambitious targets for electric cars and autonomous vehicles, as well as a rapid rise in the volumes delivered through subscription contracts rather than sales. Of course, Volvo is not alone in these kinds of ambitions. You can do all kinds of scenario analysis and ‘what-ifs?’

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The Logistics Academy

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

For example, as online sales reach a record high, B2C service provider Jet.com uses some creative logistics concepts to bring value to customers. Darren Prokop, University of Alaska Anchorage (UAA): As in the academic world in general, there is a trend to online course delivery. But hard skills must be coupled with soft skills.

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247 Customs Broker

APRIL 6, 2018

The trick, of course, is how to make S&OP more effective, and thus more beneficial to managers in the trenches. They also need to consider how to provide insights to S&OP teams about issues like inventory policies, or item/SKU stocking strategies that, when incorporated into plans, set the stage for success.

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Camelot 3PL Software

APRIL 3, 2019

You will discuss these goals with vendors, who take notes, but these conversations are generally much higher-level than the detail in which the Project Team will get during implementation. Change Management Plans are crucial, as most software implementation will have at least some changes come about during the course of implementation.

Modeling Software 40

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Freightos

JULY 26, 2018

These examples are from retail, but I sense that the same customer empowerment phenomenon is happening broadly across everything we do at Amazon and most other industries as well. Team Analysis. A key direct relationship with this role is with ocean carriers, and also with third-party vendors.

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247 Customs Broker

APRIL 5, 2018

Gilmore Says… In a great example of the balance in this book, Sheffi notes the actual evidence of consumer preference for Green products is tenuous at best. And it is this supply chain complexity (more on that in a moment) that in part makes crafting sustainability strategies such a challenge in practice.

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Logistics Bureau

MARCH 14, 2018

Less passenger traffic and reduced congestion means flexibility for TNT in scheduling onward transport, whether by air or road. From the use of archived data on tapes for sales analysis, Wal-Mart went to a system that made each individual sale from each Wal-Mart outlet available for scrutiny in fewer than seven minutes.

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247 Customs Broker

APRIL 19, 2018

An off-cited analysis from McKinsey in late 2017, for example, found automation could destroy as many as 73 million US jobs by 2030, about one third of all jobs in the country. For example, in a story I remembered that we ran in 2014, a company called Parkdale Mills had recently re-opened a factory near Gaffney, SC that now produces 2.5

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