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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. You’re ordering more stock than you need so you can meet vendor minimum order quantities. The ecommerce logistics practitioner must instead integrate reverse logistics into his or her company’s inventory management strategies and processes.

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7 Easy Steps to Create an Inbound Vendor Routing Guide

GlobalTranz

An inbound vendor routing guide is comparable the beating heart of your operation. Creating an effective inbound vendor routing guide is not without its share of challenges. Assess Your Current Inbound Vendor Routing Guide. For example, provide direction for each vendor that comes from a specific area.

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

Logistics Bureau

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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How to Successfully Implement a Transportation Management System

Talking Logistics

The cost saving and service improvement benefits of a transportation management system (TMS) are well documented. This is usually a three to six month process and may be part of a larger corporate strategy or transformation process that it has to plug into. How well do the vendors communicate with you? The TMS selection process.

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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. 2) Know Your Operational Profile and Requirements.

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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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Vendor Managed Inventory Model for Supply Chain Cost Reductions

GlobalTranz

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?