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Editor’s Choice: Why Supply Chain Design Is Not a “One-and-Done” Exercise

Logistics Viewpoints

Today’s article is from Ahmad Jiwani at Coupa and looks at supply chain design. Traditional supply chain design and planning relied on the idea that, “governments were rational, variability would be low, and logistics would always be available,” as Lora Cecere of Supply Chain Insights has said. To read the full article, click HERE.

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Editor’s Choice: 8 Supply Chain Planning Challenges Retailers Will Face In 2022 And Tips To Overcome Them

Logistics Viewpoints

This article is from Asena Denizeri & Anil Gurbuz at Solvoyo and examines the challenges around supply chain planning for 2022 and beyond. this experience has changed how we dress and exercise. We stopped going to the gyms and favored outdoor activities or at-home exercises. To read the full article, click HERE.

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Editor’s Choice: Creating Full Truckload Budgets in a Volatile Market

Logistics Viewpoints

Today’s article comes from Emerge, and looks at how to create full truckload budgets in a volatile market. One of the more difficult activities that logistics executives have to engage in is the creation of transportation budgets. To read the full article, click HERE.

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Raising Productivity in Logistics Operations: The BHAG Approach

Logistics Bureau

They did a benchmarking exercise with us and we found that the industry standard was about 40 lines per hour. But think of the potential rewards, which, as I have personally witnessed, and recounted in this article, can be as dramatic as: A 217 percent productivity increase. A Delivery in full, on time (DIFOT) of 99.72

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6 Quick Tips for Successful Logistics Outsourcing

Logistics Bureau

In this short article, I’ll redress the balance a little by highlighting a few practical guidelines which, if adhered to, will increase the chances of a successful logistics outsourcing alliance. An extensive process mapping exercise, prior to supplier selection, should help to prevent this issue. Lets’ Raise a Half-full Glass.

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Underwriting preparedness – considering the logistics of the future preparedness system

Logistics in War

What is less easy to treat is the logistics system which underpins the generation of capability. As I have said many times before, the quality of the logistics support given to a military is the sum of innumerable parts. The actions of these participants is bound by policy and orders, command direction and doctrinal behaviour.

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Facility Safety: What Could Go Wrong? Can You Answer These Four Questions?

Logistics Viewpoints

Nevertheless, understanding the most rigorous safety processes, and being able to appropriately adopt them to less hazardous facilities, is a worthwhile exercise. This article examines facility safety and lessons learned from the Buncefield Oil Storage Depot fires. appeared first on Logistics Viewpoints.