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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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From food products to medicines: The trends of Sortation technology

Logistics Business Magazine

Thomas Wiesmann from BEUMER Group , pictured above, knows which sortation trends owners are following, how they can react to them and where the journey will take them. The companies intend to save costs with their systems, to pursue a more environmentally conscious approach and above all follow market trends. Market trends?

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Food products to Medicines: Trends of Sortation Technology

Logistics Business Magazine

Thomas Wiesmann from BEUMER Group , pictured above, knows which sortation trends owners are following, how they can react to them and where the journey will take them. The companies intend to save costs with their systems, to pursue a more environmentally conscious approach and above all follow market trends. Market trends?

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An 8-point Guide to Understanding Your Cost to Serve

Logistics Bureau

Let’s start with an uncomplicated example: Company A is in the business of distributing whiteboard markers. If they are going to understand their cost to serve, they need to know the cost of shipping, for example, the green one to a customer. Let’s take allocation of fixed warehouse costs as an example.

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The Trends Shaping Supply Chain and Logistics: Takeaways from Descartes Evolution 2017

Talking Logistics

Which is why a drone took flight from the stage during Ryan’s keynote address at the Descartes Evolution 2017 Conference a couple of weeks ago and broadcast real-time video of the audience as it flew across the front of the hall. Drones and its future in supply chain and logistics processes. Logistics Excellence: Now & in the eFuture.

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Supply Chain Resiliency Poised to Become Competitive Differentiator

IoT World Today

The global supply chain, for example, has been hit hard over the past 15 months, creating supply shortages and imbalanced demand. The cybercommunity will be front and center in determining how resilient our supply chains will be going forward,” said Andrea Little Limbago, vice president of research and analysis at AI SaaS company Interos.

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The New Definition of Supply Chain Agility and Resilience in an Unpredictable World

Logistics Viewpoints

In fact, IT spend as a percent of business capex crossed over the prior ~10 year average in 2019 and we see that trend extending in early 2020.”. blockchain), and video-based collaboration/content sharing. A Positive Example. And Agility Can Help Improve Profitability Too?