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Top 6 Supply Chain KPIs: Keep Your Dashboards Simple

Logistics Bureau

These key metrics become your organisation’s “multi-function display” and give you the primary data needed to monitor and manage “normal flight conditions.” ” Feel free to track lots more metrics in the background if you wish, but try to keep attention focused on the five or six “real KPIs.”

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Warehouse Labor is Front Page News: But what’s below the fold?

Logistics Viewpoints

Of course, virtually everyone relied upon direct-to-consumer fulfillment at some point during the COVID-19 lockdowns, placing widespread reliance on warehousing capabilities. There is a forest of legal documents addressing procedural hurdles. Source: Osha Certified Warehouse Worker. Yes, fourth motion. Maybe, maybe not.

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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. Alignment of cost and service is good news for your customers. 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.

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Why is o9 Solutions Growing So Fast?

Logistics Viewpoints

This January the company reported that its annual recurring revenue grew at over 84% year-over-year. A graph database stores nodes and relationships instead of tables, or documents. Meanwhile decisions like how much production capacity needs to be added, or what raw materials need to be purchased, don’t change on a daily basis.

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Ecommerce Inventory Management: Challenges & Solutions

Logistics Bureau

Standardise and Digitise The key to managing complexity, of course, is to be organised. 2) A need for variants of products that are more suitable for online ordering and shipping than those suited for in-store sales (leak-proof packaging, for example). Try to establish consistency in the identification of your company’s products.

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How to Sustain a Lean Culture in Manufacturing & Supply Chain

GlobalTranz

All activities are documented by a team recorder. It typically describes how a process should consistently be executed and documents current ‘best practices.’ These metrics would, of course, be aligned and are updated every hour. Specific metrics: process metrics and outcome metrics. It takes years.

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Use the New GDPR Legislation to Rethink the Way You Market

Logistics Marketing Advisors

Communication is a two-way street, of course. cookies and Google Analytics tracking) of sites/companies that they wish to hear from or otherwise interact with. If an honest assessment points more to the latter, now is a good time to course correct. This means, for example, no pre-selected checkboxes on forms.