Logistics Business Magazine

MARCH 20, 2023

A new white paper from a supply chain consultancy suggests retailers are too fragmented in their approach to determining their Costs-To-Serve (CTS) and should instead adopt CTS analysis as a core, business-critical initiative for informing future decisions and direction. “In CLICK HERE to download the full white paper.

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Blue Grace Logistics

OCTOBER 20, 2022

How to Utilize Data to Drive Planning Changes and Improve OTD & Fill Rates. With persistent disruptions to the supply chain, having transparency to accurate data is crucial in forecasting, being able to stay agile, and combatting interruptions. What kind of impact does a data analysis have on the supply chain?

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CLX Logistics

MARCH 4, 2024

How to Elevate Your Logistics Operations with AI & ML Technology Global supply chain organizations are embracing digitization to propel their supply chain planning to new heights. What is Supply Chain Planning? Data informs transportation capacity and rates.

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FreightWaves SONAR

MARCH 2, 2021

From a financial standpoint, transportation cost analysis remains focused on determining the value of the resources used to execute a given shipment and goes well beyond benchmarking. Without clear budgeting and cost-prediction measures, the transportation network will be unable to accurately plan for increases and decreases in expenses.

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3PL Links

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Image source: Flickr | How to Protect Supply Chain from Cyber Attacks The management of data intelligence in the supply chain presents an enormous challenge to those involved. The supply chain depends more and more on IT systems to ensure information flow and security as it develops.

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Logistics Bureau

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

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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Log-hub

DECEMBER 8, 2023

So let’s dive in, and figure out how to do it with Log-hub’s solutions. While mathematics is powerful, it may not always align with real-world scenarios. If you have business-specific constraints and need to ensure a particular customer is supplied through a specific warehouse or factory, you can directly configure this in the app.

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Logistics Bureau

JULY 18, 2022

As you’ll know, if you follow our blog regularly, Logistics Bureau does a great deal of work related to supply chain strategy development and alignment. As a result, and as we’ve mentioned in several previously published articles, we’ve discovered that many companies lack a defined and documented supply chain strategy.

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3PL Links

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

How to Innovate Your Supply Chain Management: What You Need to Know | Image Source: Axestrack Organizations must prioritize supply chain management and implement strategies to increase its efficiency if they want to compete in the market. The supply chain is crucial in this regard.

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3PL Links

MAY 19, 2024

Image source: PxHere | Mastering Demand and Inventory Planning: Essential Strategies for Success Have you ever thought about how businesses effectively satisfy customer demand and maintain supplied inventory? Demand and inventory planning is a critical procedure that holds the key to success. How to do demand planning?

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GoShip Blog

JULY 7, 2021

Most c ustomers may never give it a second thought, but business owners are well-acquainted with the fact that supply chains operate like a well-oiled machine. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, disrupted supply chains made it difficult to provide communities with pandemic response, including food, vaccines, and other medical supplies.

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Trinity Logistics

MAY 10, 2023

Optimized load planning is fundamental to improving your service and revenue. Efficient load planning is more critical than ever and a key performance area for any supply chain. While this sounds great, load planning can be a very manual and time-consuming process. Some may not even offer load planning tools.

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EazyStock

OCTOBER 31, 2022

What is demand planning? Demand planning is part of a company’s planning strategy to allocate resources in the best and most effective way to meet demand and respond to demand changes. Why is demand planning important? Is demand planning the same as demand forecasting? What does demand planning involve?

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EazyStock

OCTOBER 31, 2022

What is demand planning? Demand planning is part of a company’s planning strategy to allocate resources in the best and most effective way to meet demand and respond to demand changes. Why is demand planning important? Is demand planning the same as demand forecasting? What does demand planning involve?

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 21, 2021

According to one survey , only 27% of leaders believe that they have the talent needed to meet current supply chain performance requirements. What should supply chain leaders be looking for to close the talent gap? AGCO Logistics Team Accepts Prestigious Supply Chain Award. Mr. Stevens talked about their supply chain initiative.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 3, 2023

Aera Technology offers a solution they call “Aera Decision Cloud” A key challenge for manufacturers is connecting integrated business planning (IBP) – a longer term plan – to operational planning and execution – what needs to be done in the near term. What part of the plan should be executed?

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 26, 2023

Mars has been on a journey to transform their digital supply chain. In 2019, Will Beery was appointed the vice president and tasked with leading the company’s global digital supply chain transformation. Mars’s Digital Transformation Mr. Beery started by asking, “what does a digital supply chain mean for us?”

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Ask manufacturing leaders what changes they plan to make in the next three years in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, and they will likely say their use of technology will deepen as more and more players in their supply chains come to rely on digital connections for daily interactions. Talent gaps: ? Changing consumer attitudes:?

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Logistics Bureau

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

So, you are thinking about a career in supply chain? While this article is intended as an evergreen resource, to help you navigate in your search for a supply chain job, and is not a COVID-19-specific guide, the pandemic has galvanized attention on the industry and its criticality. What is the Role of the Supply Chain Worker?

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 1, 2021

The Introduction of Smokeless Tobacco Products Complicated Philip Morris’s Supply Chain. This was done at a stock keeping unit level and for the entire manufacturing supply chain. At the end of 2019 that supply chain covered 38 PMI owned factories, 28 third party manufacturers, and more than 180 markets.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

DECEMBER 19, 2022

In an increasingly unpredictable world environment, practices for planning and forecasting inventory levels that worked in the past need to be reviewed. In the 1990s, APS (Advanced Planning and Scheduling) arose as a solution for making better decisions about inventory. Using AI in inventory management. Challenges of IO and AI.

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Log-hub

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

7 min read Maximizing Warehouse Efficiency: Unleashing the Potential of ABCD Analysis In the dynamic world of supply chain management, optimizing warehouse operations has become an indispensable factor for businesses. One of the most powerful tools employed in this endeavor is the ABCD Analysis.

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FreightWaves SONAR

APRIL 2, 2024

This is where having external benchmarking and analysis data becomes critical. SONAR Supply Chain Intelligence (SCI) empowers companies to strategically look at large projects or annual bids differently. By looking at lanes and whole supply chains with greater context (tender data, lane scores, peer rates, etc.),

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Supply Chain Brain

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

The majority of manufacturing companies manage planning through two separate teams. The operations team balances supply and demand and calculates future capacity and supply needs. Through such periods the financial and operations plans often diverge, sometimes dramatically.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

DECEMBER 19, 2022

In an increasingly unpredictable world environment, practices for planning and forecasting inventory levels that worked in the past need to be reviewed. In the 1990s, APS (Advanced Planning and Scheduling) arose as a solution for making better decisions about inventory. Using AI in inventory management. Challenges of IO and AI.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 8, 2021

Belcorp’s Maturity in Supply Chain Design. Belcorp Corporation has actively worked to be a leader in ensuring that their people can effectively use a complex type of software known as supply chain design. It requires a company to further leverage the supply chain design philosophy.

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Logistics Bureau

AUGUST 1, 2022

Has your company ever suffered problems with, implemented, or even considered implementing a sales and operations (S&OP) planning process? More to the point, though, for S&OP to be effective, it matters not whether a company uses Excel spreadsheets or the latest best-of-breed sales and operations planning software.

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FreightWaves SONAR

MARCH 18, 2021

Managing the manufacturing supply chain and freight markets of today requires skills, tools, applications and services that have never been utilized in the past. Supply chain constraints are impossible to avoid, but they can be planned for to reduce their impact. It is what sets manufacturing supply chain companies apart.

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3PL Links

MARCH 21, 2023

Image Source: Lokad | Supply Chain Risk Management: Top 5 Supply Chain Risks to Watch Out For Any action—or lack thereof—can cause a business to go out of business in this time of bleak future prospects. Nonetheless, many institutions struggle with managing supply chain risks.

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Turvo

AUGUST 24, 2021

Before the COVID pandemic ran through the supply chain, in-network resiliency had never been tested or tried extensively. Today, the definition of supply chain resiliency has been changed in ways that have caused ripple effects. Real-time data is critical to the supply chain’s smooth operations day in and day out.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 25, 2021

If your company’s supply chain survived 2020 and the disruptions of early 2021, it’s safe to say it has passed the supply chain resiliency test. Supply chain disruption has many sources: tariffs and trade disputes, natural disasters, pandemics, economic uncertainty and cybersecurity attacks.

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3PL Links

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

Image source: Rawpixel.com | How to Make Reverse Packaging Logistics More Efficient? Each tactic—from active consumer involvement to sustainable design—is laid out clearly and demonstrates how we may improve the efficiency of packaging recycling.

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Blue Grace Logistics

MARCH 24, 2022

How to Implement High-Level Analytics in Logistics. Predictive and prescriptive analytics can help companies stay ahead of the curve and solve challenges that are holding them back in today’s complex supply chain world. Predictive and prescriptive analytics are not only used in the supply chain.

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Blue Grace Logistics

JULY 27, 2021

Improving predictability in outcomes is valuable, but ensuring your supply chain is nimble enough to act on the data is even more so. With demand forecasting being complex, it is easy to lose supply chain visibility. The presence of data throughout the supply chain is vital to its evolution. Demand forecasting is hard.

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Logistics Bureau

OCTOBER 10, 2022

These are all pervasive issues for supply chain operators worldwide—and are classic symptoms of suboptimal inventory performance. The good news is that they are all problems with solutions, and that every supply chain can be improved through inventory optimisation. How to Improve Forecast Accuracy for Optimal Inventory.

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Stord

JANUARY 26, 2021

To keep up with the resulting complexity to the supply chain, brands have been relying on third-party logistics partners and manually piecing together long contracts, RFPs and limited software capabilities with their own third-party integrators and multiple software tools.

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