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Energy and Labour Costs: 2 Top Warehousing Challenges in 2023

Logistics Bureau

We hope the tips and ideas in this article will help you make inroads into warehouse energy and labour cost reduction. However, in this article, we’ll focus exclusively on the cost factor, drawing your attention to some questions you might ask yourself (and your team) about your facility’s energy usage.

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The fight for logistics and survival in #highintensitywar

Logistics in War

Exercises undertaken to simulate high-intensity war such as US Pacific Command’s Exercise Pacific Sentry 17-03 highlighted significant force posture challenges that might constrain air (and other) operations against a peer adversary.

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Warehouse Product Slotting: The Ultimate Guide

Logistics Bureau

If you browse through the Logistics Bureau blog, you’ll find at least two or three articles—and about the same number of videos—that cover warehouse product slotting. Slotting Increases Replenishment Efficiency. Productivity improvements in picking, replenishment, and put-away. Slotting Benefits: Summary.

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Happy New Year: Here’s the 7 things shippers need to know about the Q1 2021 freight market

FLS Transport

Inventory replenishment will continue well into 2021. While this is nothing to cheer about, industrial output combined with the other items noted in this article will continue to increase the demand for trucks during the normal lull. One data point shows inventories declined 9% year-over-year while sales increased 9%.

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No Supply Chain Strategy? Here’s How to Develop One

Logistics Bureau

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. Ideally, though, evaluating your position against competitors should not solely be a KPI benchmarking exercise. Vendor-managed inventory or replenishment.

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Intelligent Logistics or Just Good Old Common Sense?

Blog on Log

This article does not profess to address all components of creating ‘Intelligent Logistics’. However, in reality most strategic planning exercises neither embed foresight, nor create responsive networks. Last month’s feature article talked about ‘Information Factory’. The periodicity may range from six months to five years.

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Planning to sustain the force – Reflections on East Timor by a Logistics Unit Commander Part Two

Logistics in War

Editor’s note – this article continues with the experiences of the then Commanding Officer, 10th Force Support Battalion (10 FSB), deploying to East Timor (now Timor Leste) as part of the INTERFET operation. . This would not be like a month-long exercise in the local training area.