Logistics Business Magazine

MARCH 12, 2024

“The grocery industry is extremely competitive, as shoppers change consuming habits fast and change stores even faster,” says Kari Miikkulainen, Director of Warehouse & Distribution Industry Sales at Cimcorp. For example, Cimcorp has helped Mercadona to match automation and RPCs for excellent results.

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Logistics Bureau

MAY 30, 2022

For example: Alignment of strategy and cost leads to happy shareholders. As an example, let’s say that as a part of its customer service promise, your company guarantees its customers that they will receive their orders within 24 hours. Costs associated with transportation. Distribution Network Costs.

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Blue Grace Logistics

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Packaging plays a significant role in preserving freshness and preventing damage during transportation. Transportation: Produce often travels long distances to reach consumers. The primary modes of transport include trucks, ships, and planes. These centers serve as key hubs in the supply chain.

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3PL Insights

JANUARY 17, 2023

Evans Distribution Systems adopted machine vision with AI to improve order accuracy for our fulfillment customers. We list some of these cost-saving strategies in our “Tips for Controlling Parcel Rates” article. By nearshoring, companies can reduce transportation costs, improve lead times, and increase flexibility. Nearshoring.

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Forto

APRIL 25, 2020

A comparison of the different transport options from air to rail freight. Special times require special measures: As medical protective equipment and disinfectants are needed everywhere during the Covid-19 pandemic, the German customs authorities are speeding up the transport of these goods to Germany by facilitating import regulations.

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Logistics Bureau

APRIL 3, 2023

In this article, I will redress the balance by exploring outsourcing from a more holistic perspective, focusing on ways to consider outsourcing partnerships for improvement throughout the supply chain. So, for example, outsourcing sales activity is not typically a good idea if yours is a retail sales company.

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Logistics Bureau

OCTOBER 9, 2023

If you’ve followed our blog over the years, you’ll know that we’ve shared lots of information about distribution network design, why it’s vital to get it right, how long it should take, the importance of reviewing the network every so often, and various elements of design such as determining the number of warehouses and where to locate them.

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Logistics at MPEPS at UPV

MARCH 26, 2023

In this article, we will explore how logistics concepts can be applied to the popular sandbox game Minecraft and how it can help players optimize their gameplay. They can also set up resource storage areas and distribution centers to ensure easy access to the resources they need. source of image: [link]

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Conger

MARCH 22, 2024

This new idea has become a big part of the modern business world, revolutionizing how goods are transported within warehouses and manufacturing plants through automated guided vehicles (AGVs). They are often used in industrial applications to transport heavy materials around industrial buildings, such as a factory or warehouse environment.

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Conger

MARCH 22, 2024

This new idea has become a big part of the modern business world, revolutionizing how goods are transported within warehouses and manufacturing plants through automated guided vehicles (AGVs). They are often used in industrial applications to transport heavy materials around industrial buildings, such as a factory or warehouse environment.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 9, 2022

A few weeks ago, I wrote an article on the benefits of time slot management. In that article, I highlighted the importance of the network effect on time slot management and related technologies, as well as the main benefits of a time slot management application. This is where the true power of time slot management exists.

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Logistics Bureau

MARCH 22, 2021

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. Then look at the transportation process in the same way.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 19, 2023

For example, as a picker is moving through the warehouse, their scan gun will read, “go to location XB312 and pick three cases!” Our ability to do this has gotten better because real-time transportation visibility solutions give the warehouse much better certainty surrounding when a truck will arrive at the DC. Let me explain this.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 27, 2021

Because warehousing and transportation represent significant cost centers, intelligent logistics decisions are critical. Uberization: Exploring On-Demand Transportation, Labor and Warehousing. 1] Now that same concept is poised to similarly disrupt the world of distribution. Five Forces Reshaping Logistics as We Know it.

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ShipLilly

JANUARY 6, 2022

This article urges companies to look again at medium-sized logistics companies as a possible alternative. The smaller orders are diversely distributed in regions that do not always get the full attention of larger 3PLs. This can be by way of distribution companies or subsidiaries. Smart power concept.

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Stord

JANUARY 7, 2019

New approaches to warehousing and distribution are causing a market shift: we’ve now seen some of the biggest brands in the nation utilize these strategies when the stakes are highest. We’ve rounded up the key insights from the article below. In short, they exist to ease the pressures of traditional distribution.

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AIMMS

JUNE 16, 2020

Materials shortages , demand fluctuations and plan t closures have led many organizations to revisit their supplier relationships, as well as distribution and production locations. The y needed to assess if closing some of their distribution centers made sense from a cost stance. . Stay tuned! .

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Kanban Logistics

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

In this article, we’ll identify and define the most common value-added warehousing services that a 3PL provider may perform. Common and not-so-common examples of 3PL value-added warehousing Cross docking Cross docking is a service in which products are unloaded from a truck (or railcar if intermodal) for temporary storage in a 3PL warehouse.

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3PL Links

MARCH 27, 2024

As a result of the increased use of technology, a number of issues related to product distribution, storage, and transportation have been recognized, along with potential solutions. IoT applications in logistics are demonstrated in this article by 3PL Links, along with their benefits. 3PL Links Inc.

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Shipping and Freight Resource

MARCH 8, 2022

Given China’s systemic production cost advantage, which now averages 30% to 35% even when shipping costs are included, ” says a recent article from the Harvard Business Review. This alone has caused a severe delay in the US supply chain, which has since rippled throughout inland distribution systems. .

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 10, 2022

At one point in my career, I did some work in a large distribution center in Southern California. For example, related to warehouse technology, a recent Lucas Systems industry study found 89% of respondents agreed that implementing artificial intelligence-based software within distribution centers can provide a competitive advantage.

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3PL Links

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Thus, it covers every aspect of a product’s life cycle, from the acquisition of its inputs to its transformation, storage, transport, packaging, sale, and distribution, among other activities. Ikea’s packaging design is a well-known example to help with this matter. How to innovate?

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ShipLilly

JUNE 16, 2021

Orange Fruit and food distribution, tropical fruit of Thailand.Truck loaded with containers reefer control by ventilator mode to be shipped to the market. This article examines the effects of the re-opening process on restaurants and the food supply chain in general. Transportation industry in crisis.

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Ship Monk

FEBRUARY 24, 2024

For example, ShipMonk customizes logistics services and associated fees to the unique needs of every client. In the previous example, you have the physical weight that extra travel inventory creates in your luggage that you have to lug around. You never want to cut corners on these, or any, crucial areas of your ecommerce brand.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

According to a recent article in Forbes , 48% of consumers today prefer a hybrid shopping model that combines online and in-store components. For example, they might browse products online, but visit a brick-and-mortar store to finalize their selection. Transportation: Moving to a Digital Environment.

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PINC

JANUARY 22, 2020

Matt Yearling’s articles ranked on both Logistics Viewpoints’ and Talking Logistics’ most-read article lists for 2019. . Here’s a synopsis of his most-read articles for the year and the evergreen insights that he shared with readers: Excess Inventory? Transportation Trends: First Autonomous Spotters, Then Autonomous Trucks.

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Blue Grace Logistics

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

For example, if a focus on customer service has resulted in shipments that are too small for optimized handling, the right provider should have ideas for a hierarchy of batching decisions that will both protect the company’s reputation with customers and create new efficiencies. READ THE FULL ARTICLE HERE.

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Logistics Bureau

APRIL 3, 2018

In this short article, I’m going to explain why not knowing the cost to serve (CTS) is a mistake that could be limiting the profitability of your business operations in Thailand. SOURCE: Article by Cerasis Logistics. Bangkok in particular, is an area that logistics operators know to be expensive in terms of transport and distribution.

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Logistics Bureau

OCTOBER 20, 2021

As an example of how illuminating the perfect order KPI can be, let’s look briefly at damage-free delivery as an example. In many cases, your distribution operation will incur unwanted costs to manage returns of damaged items and deliver replacements to the customers (not to mention the cost of writing off damaged inventory).

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Logistics at MPEPS at UPV

MARCH 15, 2021

According to the article “ How IoT can improve the logistic pro ces s ” the internet of things (IoT) provides data, which describes objects “physical assets” for example a good to be transported and distributed worldwide.

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Trinity Logistics

OCTOBER 16, 2020

As logistics are an integral part of supply chains, they affect the global distribution of goods. Global supply chains involve big supply networks, which need air or ocean transportation. Such means of transport can largely contribute to GHG emissions. 3 Choosing greener means of transportation.

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Ship Monk

AUGUST 3, 2022

Not all of those examples are exactly illustrious, but they do (for the most part) prove that two heads really are better than one. These services can include transportation, warehousing, distribution, and overall supply chain management. Behind every hero is a sidekick who helps guide them to success.

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Logistics Business Magazine

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

However, achieving major growth was not possible with just ironing articles alone. Today, the company from Hilden near Düsseldorf offers more than 5,000 articles from the areas of lingerie, bathroom, living, kitchen, and leisure – with patents or property rights for around 1,500 products. Business boomed.

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Globalior

DECEMBER 12, 2020

This Incoterm can be used for shipments moving on any mode of transport. For example, if the seller is in Singapore and the buyer is in the United States, the sales contract should mention: DAP ( buyer’s warehouse ) Incoterms® 2020. The Seller bears all transportation costs up the point of delivery. A final word.

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ShipLilly

AUGUST 24, 2021

By using a variety of high-quality freight forwarders, you will reduce delays at customs offices and your inland transportation network will benefit from a smoother transition of cargo from the port onto land services. This article takes you through the basic process. SECOND: Start the process of transporting the merchandise.

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Logistics Bureau

JULY 10, 2023

To do so on an industrial scale—meaning that you wish to set up distribution facilities and establish a logistics network in the new geography—is no mean feat. That doesn’t necessarily mean that you can abstain from logistics management entirely. A 3PL partner can help you to remedy process fragmentation and its associated weaknesses.

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Logistics Bureau

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

With that question answered, I’m giving the rest of this article over to highlighting several business and supply chain issues, which, if you are experiencing them in your enterprise, are potent indications that CTS analysis should be on your agenda —for execution at the soonest. In short, you can’t. I can think of a few more.

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