Logistics Business Magazine

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Distribution and fulfilment operations are under increasing pressure to perform – but labour availability is tighter than ever. But it is all too true, and nowhere more so than across the logistics and distribution sector. A ‘pick’ in a distribution centre may have 30 or more time-study elements. The demands of ecommerce.

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Logistics Bureau

JANUARY 7, 2020

Mini Case Study: Walmart. Along with the design of supply chain strategy, the design of the supply chain itself, especially the part dealing with outbound distribution from plants or warehouses, is instrumental in the success or failure of businesses. . Mini Case Study: Whirlpool. Supply Chain Network Design.

Supply Chain Design Software 122

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 31, 2022

Let’s put a major multinational – Saint-Gobain – under the microscope to illustrate how this kind of analysis. Saint-Gobain designs, manufactures, and distributes materials and solutions for the construction, mobility, healthcare and other industrial application markets. The company typically does 25 to 50 studies per year.

Material Savings 124

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Logistics Bureau

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Too much leads to resources being monopolised on gathering tons of data and a subsequent risk of “paralysis by analysis” Cost to Serve (CTS) is an approach that helps you avoid both extremes. A product can be analysed in terms of overall costs to stock and distribute it. This sounds like common sense.

Purchasing Skills 88

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, some of the challenges it posed to manufacturing and distribution were new. SYSPRO ’s 2020 survey, The Inflection Point for the Factory of the Future , showed that only about one-third (38%) of manufacturers’ business systems had enabled them to meet the challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Manufacturing Procurement 110

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Since then, virtually every supplier I talked to in the process of updating this year’s Supply Chain Planning Market Analysis Study has said they are investing in this area. That is every machine, factory, DC, mode of transportation, supplier, product, material, etc. These indices then become attributes of these objects.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 21, 2021

At AGCO when there is an allocation of supply decision to be taken, there is just one person communicating with a particular supplier and telling them how the tight supply will be allocated among the AGCO factories. The premise of the study was interesting. The goal should not just be to close the existing gaps.

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Locus

MAY 25, 2023

And another one is Amazon opening up new distribution centers and partnering with smaller carriers. Ford Whitman Harris first published the model of Economic Order Quantity in a paper Factory, The Magazine of Management , in 1913. This model became dominant for order-quantity analysis in the study of supply chains.

Inventory Reduction 52

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Material Handling and Logistics

JUNE 25, 2018

Also, for whatever reason, Gartner limits the scope of the Top 25 to companies in the manufacturing, retail or distribution sectors. The slideshow that follows, then, is our coverage of Gartner’s rankings, which includes both comments from Gartner’s analysts as well as our own analysis, based on independent reporting. Media Type.

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Logistics Business Magazine

DECEMBER 11, 2022

For example, brand manufacturers and retailers—are beginning to perform life cycle analysis of their products to ascertain the environmental impacts of the products they sell. Typically product life cycle studies included just a handful of products, and results were extrapolated to similar products.

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247 Customs Broker

APRIL 19, 2018

A little more than 20 years ago, I was doing some consulting for a company called Indiana Glass, then a division of Lancaster Colony, at its Dunkirk, IN factory just outside of Muncie. Alas, it appears the factory was shuttered more than a decade ago. • The growing army of robots used in distribution.

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GlobalTranz

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

We’ve seen increases in recycled content and reduced material requirements through thinning of container walls and replacement of voluminous corrugated with minimal plastic for unitizing distribution units. Our folks have spent much of the last 45 years on factory floors across America. Root cause. At Lantech we’re observers by nature.

Waste Reduction 80

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GlobalTranz

MARCH 15, 2017

We’ve seen increases in recycled content and reduced material requirements through thinning of container walls and replacement of voluminous corrugated with minimal plastic for unitizing distribution units. Our folks have spent much of the last 45 years on factory floors across America. Root cause .

Cost Reduction 48

Cost Reduction Waste Reduction Expense Reduction Material Savings 48

GlobalTranz

MARCH 28, 2016

Using AI driven product nature of being and smart attributes, data can be structured to support the needs of ERP applications as well as strategic sourcing and Value Analysis activities , all from one data set. These super-intelligent machines are already taking over factory workers, stock traders, data processors, even news reporters.

Logistics Network Optimization Software 56

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