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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. Costs associated with transportation. Warehouse operational costs. Procurement costs.

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5 Steps to Solve a Supply Chain Crisis

GlobalTranz

For example, if you operate in an area prone to bushfires, you need to consider how this will affect the roads and infrastructure. Unforeseen circumstances like these can disrupt transport and easily turn into a crisis. Download white paper. Another possible disruption to consider is a natural disaster. Author Bio.

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Industry View: Where’s Secondary Packaging Going?

Logistics Business Magazine

He explains what he means in the following example. To this end KHS is staging a number of workshops this year. These aim to find out how the percentage of recyclate in film – as stipulated by the new German Packaging Law, for example – can be increased. What can we do to counteract this?”.

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Hanging in the balance

Automotive Logistics

In recent years, adds Cassani, the company has put various logistics improvements in place, which include “delivery time and stock optimisation, as well as eco-friendly transport improvements and others.”. Of course, this had a negative influence on carriers’ overall performance and planning.

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Embracing a Growth Mindset: The Key to Freight Agent Succes

Trinity Logistics

Examples of this can include access to industry research, subscriptions to relevant publications, or budgeting for educational conferences. Be the example and show them how you take on that initiative, and they will likely follow suit. Of course, there’s plenty of time to network included! It’s not just about pats on the back.

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How to Operate Your Distribution Truck Fleet at Less Cost

Logistics Bureau

If it sounds like an unlikely option, consider how your fleet came to be the size it is. Was your fleet size and makeup designed from scratch, or did it evolve organically like many companies’ in-house transportation operations? That can help you reduce the number of trucks under your company’s ownership.

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Planning to sustain the force – Reflections on East Timor by a Logistics Unit Commander Part Two

Logistics in War

From this point, logistic planners can assess stockholding levels and locations, transport assets required and warehousing infrastructure needs. Of course we expect our people to be flexible, to ‘improvise, adapt and overcome’, and they did this magnificently. At the time, 9 FSB was structured similarly to the 9 Transport Regiment.