UL EHS- Sustainability

OCTOBER 31, 2019

But the most successful learning and development teams also understand how to measure the success of each training course and react accordingly. The best training strategy in the world can’t fix operational issues. Evaluate existing and new training options that eliminate the knowledge or skill gaps 5.

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Logistics Bureau

APRIL 19, 2021

If you’ve never done a benchmarking exercise before, read on. You will learn how you can significantly boost your supply chain performance—and in the process identify numerous cost-saving opportunities. It would, of course, be what the winning time was when this race was last run in your district. The Benefits of Benchmarking.

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Logistics Bureau

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

If yours is not one of those businesses, and you’re confident in your KPI suite and the relevance of the data it provides, congratulations! Supply chain management objectives can encompass several success factors, including cost reduction, supply chain speed, efficiency, and service improvement. You’re in a good place.

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Logistics Bureau

MARCH 30, 2020

It is also fair to speculate that future supply chain designs will need to be monitored using new performance measures such as resilience, re-configurability, and responsiveness, along with traditional KPIs such as cost, quality, and delivery. Not only does this spread the risk, but transportation costs are lower. 4) Create Redundancy.

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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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Logistics Bureau

APRIL 4, 2022

The answer is to benchmark your freight, of course. At Logistics Bureau, we want to help you with that, so we’re publishing this brief guide to help you if you haven’t already included freight benchmarking in your management strategies or want to benchmark more effectively than you are now.

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Logistics Bureau

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Of course, benchmarks and benchmarking can cover all kinds of different things, at work or elsewhere. A second one is then cost; For instance, “Is that level of service, whether current or planned, cost-effective?” Good Data is Key to Success with SCOR. Those levels are “benchmarks”.

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Logistics Bureau

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Of course, benchmarks and benchmarking can cover all kinds of different things, at work or elsewhere. A second one is then cost; For instance, “Is that level of service, whether current or planned, cost-effective?” Good Data is Key to Success with SCOR. Those levels are “benchmarks”.

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Logistics in War

FEBRUARY 22, 2020

The risks accepted in not beginning are, of course, high and err towards a professional negligence that ultimately costs time, resources and people at the time of a future war. Firstly, it recommended conducting realistic wargames and exercises to reflect threats and the capability of the ‘logistics enterprise’ to respond.

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Logistics Bureau

MARCH 3, 2019

Let’s begin with a look at network planning, because whether your company requires one warehouse or five, your service, efficiency, and costs will be influenced heavily by your choice of location and capacity. Your distribution strategy too, will have a bearing on network optimisation. It can go further than this, of course.

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Conger

MAY 28, 2021

And the results indicate that better training reduces operators’ errors. According to OSHA as well as many other experts, when errors are reduced, accidents are reduced as well. The instructor may give a lecture, show a PowerPoint slideshow, play videos, or host a question-and-answer exercise to discuss training topics.

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GlobalTranz

JANUARY 21, 2015

As a supply chain director, manager, or boss of a multinational corporation, where the supply chain is an integral part of your business, supply chain cost reductions are always at the forefront of your team’s mind. Vendor Managed Inventory Model for Supply Chain Cost Reductions. What is Reverse Marketing?

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Logistics Bureau

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Slotting is all about optimising the placement of warehouse SKUs to gain efficiency , increase productivity , and reduce operational costs. Or a similarly sized reduction in warehouse labour costs ? Therefore, any slotting strategy should focus on minimising such travel. Why Implement Slotting in Your Warehouse?

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Supply Chain Brain

MAY 7, 2018

to the complex exercise of pricing. of course, has the potential to affect multiple stages and functions of the supply chain. It’s that latter quality that applies to data-heavy disciplines such as pricing. The result,” says Webb, “is much greater richness and breadth of data.” On one hand, A.I. At the same time, an A.I.-driven

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Logistics Bureau

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

To do so will likely lead to problems at some point, such as when crises arise relating to logistics service and cost. When Cost is Not an Appropriate Reason to Insource or Outsource. We often hear from our clients that cost was a primary factor in a decision to contract logistics out or keep it in-house.

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The Logistics Academy

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

Darren Prokop, University of Alaska Anchorage (UAA): As in the academic world in general, there is a trend to online course delivery. Another trend is learning how to deal with the avalanche of data that supply chain managers have at their fingertips. They must know which data deserves priority for a given problem.

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Logistics Bureau

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Too much leads to resources being monopolised on gathering tons of data and a subsequent risk of “paralysis by analysis” Cost to Serve (CTS) is an approach that helps you avoid both extremes. How Much Does It “Cost to Serve” Your Customer? It costs you a certain amount to make a product. Marketing costs.

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FLS Transport

JANUARY 4, 2021

And while retailers were able to modestly re-stock going into peak, data now shows that they lack adequate inventory. One data point shows inventories declined 9% year-over-year while sales increased 9%. Per the FMCSA calculations, this represented a very deep cut of 4.4% Inventory replenishment will continue well into 2021.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

JANUARY 19, 2022

This situation has been compounded by the fact that Covid-19 essentially exposed what was already an underperforming process thanks to factors such as the US-China trade war, less efficient shipping routes and a huge drive to cut costs by consolidating loads. Use data to improve operations. The benefits of ERP.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

The answer, of course, is yes. Instead of manually entering data at set intervals throughout the month – an after-the-fact exercise prone to errors and omissions – an automated solution captures billable activities correctly in real-time, improving overhead utilization, cost control, and revenue leakage at once.

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Shipping and Freight Resource

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Data the “new” gold, is in high demand all over the world and especially now in the shipping and freight industry. But just data alone is not going to assist. Data and its usage must be standardised and there must be a standardised approach to digitalisation. So that Industry Blueprint was quite crucial.

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GlobalTranz

MARCH 3, 2016

We asked David from LoadTraning how much time one would have to set aside to pass a freight broker course as well as some hands-on training. David told us that in order to go through the “Broker Operations Manual”, which includes all the relevant theoretical info and data, one should plan on setting aside about three weeks.

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Logistics Bureau

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

So that’s the route we’re taking in this article, exploring the evolution of fleet route optimisation from a time-consuming pen-and-paper exercise to a high-tech process that, in some cases, can be completed in minutes. Let’s take a brief look at some of them.

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Conger

JULY 28, 2022

Warehouse safety includes the regulatory guidelines, actions, and best practices that help reduce injuries, provide workers with a safe environment, and reinforce safe behavior. Thus, focusing on warehouse safety helps reduce and prevent these risks as well as the accompanying fallout that goes with them. 15 Warehouse Safety Tips.

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Logistics Business Magazine

MAY 5, 2020

With current events in mind, managing future supply chain disruptions will be an integral component of corporate strategy. Creating supply chain resilience is a holistic exercise that involves more than just a few savvy logistics people. How then to build a strategy? Unpredictable is not a reason to be unprepared.

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

NOVEMBER 16, 2012

Cloud & Big Data. As was the case last year, the 2012 holiday buying season will be very much about the continued leveraging power of consumers in exercising multi-channel buying preferences and technology-enabled online tools. Business Process Outsourcing. Customer Service. Finance & Accounting. Human Resources. Banking Suite.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 11, 2024

The cost of the treatment and use for weight loss makes insurance coverage complicated, and the attractiveness of the market means many competitors are nipping at their heels. Planning together allows companies to reduce excess inventory that builds up when they plan sequentially.

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Globalior

MARCH 12, 2020

The move is meant to force traders to exercise greater due diligence in classifying imported products correctly under a more specific description instead of an “Others” description, which is generally regarded as a residual classification category. What should India’s Importers expect? What should companies do in the meantime?

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Automotive Logistics

AUGUST 14, 2018

From a purely automotive perspective, the US vehicle handling ports exported 4m vehicles last year and imported twice that number, according to data from analyst PwC. In addition, the Port Conveyance Program transfers surplus federal land to states and local governments at no cost for use as a port facility. Digital ports.

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