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Volga-Dnepr’s Cargo Supermarket Offering Delivers Insulin from Milan to Chicago

Airfreight Logistics

This shipment is a great example of collaboration between carriers, ground handling agent, freight forwarder, container manufacturers, airport and customs authorities. Understanding the supply chain constraints now is primarily important as there is still time to fix any discrepancies we might have before COVID-19 vaccine regular shipments.

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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. Cost per Purchase Order and Cost per Invoice.

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8 Reasons Why Your Business’ Success Depends Upon Your Supply Chain

Logistics Bureau

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. In other words, the majority did not recognise the need for close alignment between supply chain and general business strategies.

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The Power of Outsourcing for Supply Chain Improvement

Logistics Bureau

Improve Inventory Management Will your logistics outsourcing strategy include contract warehousing? If your enterprise operates in that sphere, you’ll be only too aware that online sales operations handle a much higher volume of returns than traditional brick-and-mortar retail operations. Let’s take ecommerce as an example.

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Freight Benchmarking: What Is It? Why Do It?

Logistics Bureau

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. There are several advantages to understanding your freight costs compared to the market generally.

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How Do Companies Name That Price? A.I. Can Help

Supply Chain Brain

to the complex exercise of pricing. The analysis ripples through the many stages of a supply chain, each of which can have a major impact on the final price of a product. It’s all about pattern matching, one of the abilities that is central to the workings of the human brain, but on a much greater scale than a person can handle.

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Reverse Logistics: Who Does it Well?

Logistics Bureau

In addition, returns typically cost more to handle than outbound shipments – 3 to 4 times more for traditional retail companies, for example. A plan is necessary, possibly based on one of the following strategies. Reverse Logistics Strategy 1: Don’t do it! Reverse Logistics Strategy 2: Make it Painless.