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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

In addition, this education can increase the quality of service for individual brokers’ clients and importers in compliance with customs laws and maintain a high standard of professionalism in the customs broker community. It would create and maintain a measure of consistency across all customs brokers.

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Pick Aisle Slotting (Chapter 5)

Camelot 3PL Software

Most eCommerce fulfillment operations would benefit from maintaining a pick aisle for some or all of the products being fulfilled. By performing an analysis of the top products by average daily/weekly demand, it is possible to determine the fastest moving items that should be allotted prime accessible pick locations.

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How to Protect Supply Chain from Cyber Attacks

3PL Links

In addition to making data analysis more difficult, using parallel platforms—which are not approved by the company’s IT department—leaves data entirely vulnerable to cybercriminals. As a result, you must exercise extreme caution when selecting each partner, making sure they have sufficient security procedures and resources in place.

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Preparing for preparedness – how should we begin?

Logistics in War

Moreover, the attitude of commanders and leaders, logisticians and staff planners to comprehensively and critically assess the Defence organisation – a ‘blue force analysis’ – also influences the logistics system to function as intended. The combat force becomes a ‘one-shot wonder’ with little in reserve or in the training pipeline.

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Preparing for preparedness – how should we begin?

Logistics in War

Moreover, the attitude of commanders and leaders, logisticians and staff planners to comprehensively and critically assess the Defence organisation – a ‘blue force analysis’ – also influences the logistics system to function as intended. The combat force becomes a ‘one-shot wonder’ with little in reserve or in the training pipeline.

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TEST Shipping Data: How Machine Learning, AI, Automation & Chatbots Create Hyper Efficiency

RPA Labs

Trying to meet current market demands with obsolete systems is an exercise in futility, and that is causing many shippers, carriers, and forwarders to struggle. Overcoming these common problem areas can help shippers and carriers maintain a competitive edge in today’s volatile market. This includes email management as well.