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Flexibility in the Face of Uncertainty

Freightos

Blog " * " indicates required fields Email * Name This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged. Of course, the economic viability of these types of shipments is limited to specific commodities. The interesting shift here, though, is that there’s a whole world of alternative shipping routes.

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Cost to Serve Analysis—And the Costs of Neglecting It

Logistics Bureau

And, of course, I will also share how knowing your cost-to-serve will help you to solve those all-too-familiar performance gremlins. Of course, it’s always possible to factor estimates of those costs into your product or service pricing, but then you can find yourself overpricing them. Are Your Profit Margins Declining?

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11 Golden Rules for Meaningful Supply Chain KPIs

Logistics Bureau

I’ve written many posts on this blog about the importance of having a supply chain strategy aligned with the overall business plan, and why it is a mistake to have misaligned strategies. Furthermore, you should present them in the right language for each stakeholder group and using the most appropriate instrument.

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For Your Supply Chain KPIs to be Meaningful, Apply Some Golden Rules

Logistics Bureau

I’ve written many posts on this blog about the importance of having a supply chain strategy that’s aligned with the overall business plan, and why it is a mistake to have misaligned strategies. Furthermore, you should present them in the right language for each stakeholder group and using the most appropriate instrument.

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How to Select the Right KPIs for Supply Chain Benchmarking

Logistics Bureau

Because you can find plenty of other articles on this blog and the Logistics Bureau blog if you’d like to peruse such lists. Of course, you can have as many other metrics as you like, but the KPIs are the ones that should form a catalyst for action. If your KPIs are common ones, it shouldn’t be a problem, of course.

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Omnichannel Retail and the Cost to Serve Online Customers

Logistics Bureau

To make things easier, it might be worth considering an investment in some analytics software to speed up the process, and of course, you won’t look at every SKU or customer. That’s a strong indicator that improvements are there for the taking, but you need to exercise care in how you go about it. Why Modeling Makes Sense.

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Drone Operator Wanted: apply within?

Logistics Business Magazine

blog by Tom Viggers, Global Account Director, pymetrics. And of course, the skills and know-how associated with supporting and operating these technologies are new too. Ironically enough, it is technology that could present the solution. But it’s not for a specific product, commodity, or even for transportation capacity.