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

Logistics Bureau

Our three pillars (or fundamentals) of great supply chain management excellence are strategy, service, and cost. Aligning strategy, service, and financial factors in your supply chain operation is essential to support your company’s overall business strategy , mission, and objectives. The Importance of Alignment.

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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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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. A clear understanding of objectives and constraints will provide you with the starting point for your design review, so it’s important to get them documented and to make sure all stakeholders are aware of them.

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

GlobalTranz

At the same time, Hurricane Season yet again disrupted freight lanes, and demand on e-commerce is still breaking the record books causing massive shifts in tactics and strategies by shippers. For shippers, this means finding a way to handle changes in inventory and replenishment, as well as managing outbound freight and reverse logistics.

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

Ship Monk

Small businesses may start out with one type of fulfillment strategy then change when the company outgrows it. The risk that comes with that, of course, is what can happen to your “baby” if you completely entrust its growth and care to someone else. Don’t worry; you can change later on.

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Third-party logistics: Future fields of opportunity?

Automotive Logistics

Seat, the Spain-based Volkswagen Group brand, wants to introduce methods that will help outbound logistics to follow more of the ‘just-in-time’ process in production, which could mean a change in how transport resources are allocated and planned. However, carmakers outsourcing entire outbound supply chains remains relatively rare.