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5 Tips for Writing a Transportation Management Plan

GlobalTranz

Identify the Authority Concerned The transportation management plan is a document that bears a legal face. This document should not be prepared by just anyone. Only those people who have duly completed the advanced traffic management course or its equivalent should write it. Download White Paper.

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Top 6 Supply Chain KPIs: Keep Your Dashboards Simple

Logistics Bureau

Accurate documentation: This metric tracks the percentage of sales orders accompanied by accurate documents throughout the process. Documents included in the metric can vary but usually include advance shipment notifications (ASNs), labels, and invoices. For example, suppose you can see the cycle time reducing.

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The 3 Pillars of Supply Chain Management (And Why Their Alignment Matters)

Logistics Bureau

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. Why does the C-suite want the three pillars aligned?

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Leading the way for the Mobile Robot Takeover

Logistics Business Magazine

This of course includes Europe and the UK, where the number of companies understanding the productive power and cost efficiency of these platforms is ramping up. Hikrobot, for example, will only release a solution to the market once it has completely verified its stability. Hikrobot’s first UK application is at Superdry.

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A Recommended Approach to Warehouse Layout and Operational Design

Logistics Bureau

It’s also important to document any constraints that will impact your plans to meet those objectives. For example, your company’s objective might be to achieve maximum operational productivity, to improve customer service, or perhaps to minimise capital expenditure. 4) Document All Results and Assumptions.

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LTL to Intermodal Shipping: How to Find and Eliminate Freight Spend Black Swans

GlobalTranz

For example, a black swan event may include both the physical damage and ongoing disruption caused by a hurricane and subsequent bottlenecks, so shippers that know how to isolate the causes of poor visibility and areas that are likely to contribute to worsening of black swan events can effectively reduce their chances of coming to fruition.

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What is a 3PL? How Third-Party Logistics Providers Benefit eCommerce Brands

Ship Monk

This neutral third party acts as the admin and point person for managing the ins and outs of your 3PL order fulfillment situation, as well as all other supply chain partners you may work with (for example manufacturers, freight forwarders, outsourced customer service teams, etc.). Another example is the crucial factor of 3PL software.