Logistics Bureau

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Of course, benchmarks and benchmarking can cover all kinds of different things, at work or elsewhere. It’s a strategy worth considering before looking at external benchmarking, because it might allow you to reduce the scope of an external benchmarking exercise, and narrow the gaps between your company and its peers.

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The Lean Thinker

OCTOBER 13, 2020

It was used in conjunction with our “how to walk the gemba” coaching sessions that we did with the lean staff, and then taught them to do with leaders. If you think about it, the Improvement Kata simply gives us much more rigor to (D). Stop pretending you have standards or rules about how the work is done.

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Logistics at MPEPS at UPV

APRIL 1, 2023

Military planning in Russia follows a strict hierarchical, top-down structure, with the Force Commander choosing the course of action and the commander’s staff detailing how to proceed. The logistics planning follows predefined principles, well-exercised scenarios, and calculations of ammunition consumption and attrition.

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Logistics Bureau

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

And, of course, I will also share how knowing your cost-to-serve will help you to solve those all-too-familiar performance gremlins. Of course, it’s always possible to factor estimates of those costs into your product or service pricing, but then you can find yourself overpricing them. Are Your Profit Margins Declining?

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Conger

MAY 28, 2021

How to develop your own in-house forklift training program. How to Start Developing Your Own Forklift Safety Training Program. The instructor may give a lecture, show a PowerPoint slideshow, play videos, or host a question-and-answer exercise to discuss training topics. How to calculate forklift capacities. Let’s dive in.

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GlobalTranz

MARCH 3, 2016

How to start a freight brokerage. Getting the top freight broker training books is also important, so you can always refer to them when you’re unsure how to go ahead. You’ll also pick up practical knowledge about the work of a freight broker, and learn how to work with shippers, and how to handle shipping rates negotiations.

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UL EHS- Sustainability

OCTOBER 31, 2019

But the most successful learning and development teams also understand how to measure the success of each training course and react accordingly. Collect information about the employees currently doing the work: ? Certainly, employee development plays a pivotal role in every successful enterprise today. When conducting a TNA: 1.

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Logistics Bureau

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Of course, there is no quick and easy way to curb increases in the cost of energy and labour, but now is an excellent time to start thinking about practical ways to reduce energy usage and increase labour productivity and efficiency. Do We Understand Our Warehouse Energy Consumption Profile?

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Logistics Bureau

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Let me share with you some very simple tips this week on how to fit more into your warehouse so that you can either avoid or delay having to move to a larger facility. I have seen warehouses this full, but I show you this just to talk about how… when is a warehouse full, how full is full?

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World Food Programme Logistics

MAY 20, 2020

Curious to know how they’re adapting, we asked them a few questions about how they are getting on working from home. Photo: Babita Thapaliya Tell us a bit about who you are, the job you do for WFP and how you are finding this new experience? Kamal’s two rooftop activities: reading and exercise.

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Logistics Bureau

AUGUST 1, 2022

The need for any S&OP process to have an executive sponsor who actively participates in the process, albeit only by exercising final approval over plans and, of course, making any decisions that call for executive authority, cannot be overstated. S&OP is ostensibly a numbers game, of course. The Executive Sponsor.

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GlobalTranz

APRIL 6, 2021

Of course, toilet paper and paper towels were in short supply as well. Wholesale food distributors and producers had to figure out how to sell directly to the public. Broadline food distributors learned how to price restaurant-quality meat in family-sized packages and coordinate curbside pickup. Overall, U.S.

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The Lean Thinker

JULY 2, 2024

This was all about stock price. They didn’t talk about profits or dividends. Of course, a high stock price enriches those people who already own shares, and makes options and stock grants more valuable, but they didn’t get into that either. I left the class not really sure of why they took us through that.

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Logistics Bureau

MARCH 3, 2019

In this post, I’d like to talk about the key factors that will impact on the optimum facility network and design required to meet your warehousing or storage requirements. This requirement, in turn, will influence decisions about the number of warehouses required, and their capacity. How fast are your inventory turns?

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Logistics Bureau

APRIL 4, 2022

The answer is to benchmark your freight, of course. In addition, it will imbue you with some knowledge about best practices—and the secrets to freight-benchmarking success. They provide intelligence about real-time market rates, enabling a company to identify and compare results with peers and competitors that are very similar.

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Logistics Business Magazine

JULY 15, 2020

In the normal course of events, these goods risk disposal or destruction. Results like this should be a call to action for all potential stakeholders to support this valuable resource – less about direct benefit, rather taking responsibility to tackle crime proactively.”.

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Logistics in War

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

Through the course of 2017, and because of my academic research, I have been extremely fortunate to interview a range of senior military officers and public servants. Strategy is a concept of relating means to end; it is complex and subtle and is about thinking, vision, learning as opposed to planning. By David Beaumont.

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Logistics in War

DECEMBER 2, 2019

I have been extremely fortunate to interview a range of senior military officers and public servants through the course of academic research in 2017. Strategy is a concept of relating means to end; it is complex and subtle and is about thinking, vision, learning as opposed to planning. Strategic failure.

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Logistics Bureau

JULY 18, 2022

Another thing we talk about quite often on our blog is how companies often misjudge the needs and preferences of their customers. Hence, your first task will be to gather unequivocal facts about your customers’ requirements. It may do, but how do you know? Step 1: What do Your Customers Want?

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Conger

JULY 28, 2022

How to Measure Warehouse Safety. How Safe Are Warehouses? Frequently Asked Questions About Warehouse Safety. We’ll talk more about specific risks later in the article, but briefly, warehouse workers commonly face hazards associated with: Forklifts and other material handling equipment. How to Measure Warehouse Safety.

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Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 8, 2017

My exercise plans for the weekend are set. The challenge, of course, is finding the right balance — that is, figuring out how to meet peak demand volumes without building out a network that goes under-utilized the remaining 11 months of the year. Rake today, shovel tomorrow. Maybe they’ll do better in 2018.

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Penske Move Ahead

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

Through Share the Road , a highway safety program developed by the American Trucking Associations (ATA) , professional truck drivers teach teen drivers how to exercise good judgment when driving on roadways shared with commercial vehicles like tractor-trailers. They are excited about driving. Driving Home Highway Safety.

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Logistics Marketing Advisors

JUNE 20, 2018

Communication is a two-way street, of course. Among other rights, people (in the case of GDPR, EU citizens) now have the right to know what information you’re collecting about them and what you’re doing with it, as well as the right to have their data removed from your system (“the right to be forgotten”). What about digital marketing?

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Conger

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Blue Light on Forklift Are you curious about enhancing safety in industrial environments? Understanding Warning Lights Warning pedestrians about approaching forklifts is crucial to averting accidents and protecting lives. For example, a flashing red light may indicate that the forklift is carrying a heavy load and is about to reverse.

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The Logistics Academy

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

Darren Prokop, University of Alaska Anchorage (UAA): As in the academic world in general, there is a trend to online course delivery. Another trend is learning how to deal with the avalanche of data that supply chain managers have at their fingertips. My courses change from year to year based on industry events and trends.

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Conger

DECEMBER 13, 2022

How Do You Get Forklift Certified? Frequently Asked Questions About Forklift Certification. Online forklift schools or forklift courses are legit and can get you trained to operate a forklift. Online forklift certification courses aren't different from in-person training. How Do You Get Forklift Certified?

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Logistics Bureau

DECEMBER 19, 2022

If you browse through the Logistics Bureau blog, you’ll find at least two or three articles—and about the same number of videos—that cover warehouse product slotting. Slotting is all about optimising the placement of warehouse SKUs to gain efficiency , increase productivity , and reduce operational costs.

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247 Customs Broker

JUNE 6, 2018

In just about every episode of Shark Tank at least one of the wealthy investors will ask an aspiring entrepreneur if the deal they’re pitching is scalable. Of course, that would be hard to do if the business in question needs to pile on costs just in order to increase its market share. Why is this important? Inside and outside.

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Logistics Bureau

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Whether that is the case or not, a brief study of the origins and progression of fleet route optimisation, covering the last three decades or so and looking forward to the near future, highlights in a spectacular way how technology, in particular, has revolutionised the business of logistics. Let’s take a brief look at some of them.

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Logistics Bureau

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

If you follow our blog, you’ll know that we often post articles about logistics outsourcing. Don’t Make Assumptions About Outsourcing’s Impact on Costs. What About Insourcing for All the Wrong Reasons? After establishing your logistics costs, you can use the information to make the right outsourcing decision.

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Conger

JANUARY 7, 2022

This article is all about forklift weight capacity. In it, you'll learn: How forklifts work. How to calculate your forklift's actual capacity. How a Forklift Works: A Balancing Act. How Much Weight Can a Forklift Lift? Forklift Capacity Plate: What It Is and How to Read It. OSHA’s rules on forklift capacity.

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Logistics Bureau

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

So far, so good… but what about those further expenses? In addition, while you can take the credit for low CTS, it may also be that high CTS is more your fault than the customer’s — and here’s why… Customers have their own expectations about the service they receive from their suppliers. Efficient order terms.

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Logistics Bureau

MAY 31, 2021

The tips in this article will help you know how to identify the customers, products, and processes that might be inflating your cost to serve (CTS) unnecessarily. To make things easier, it might be worth considering an investment in some analytics software to speed up the process, and of course, you won’t look at every SKU or customer.

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GlobalTranz

JANUARY 21, 2015

Each Supplier gives a presentation about their company’s expertise, and overview of how they have worked with you. Light lunch: cold cuts, bread coffee, and soda: simple: this expenditure is up to you, of course. The first action of the group should be to gather all the information about the item. What is Value Analysis?

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247 Customs Broker

OCTOBER 3, 2018

leaders express nervousness about the land swap. We have seen Russian attempts to interfere and to influence,” said NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, who plans to visit Vucic in Belgrade next week during joint NATO-Serbia emergency-response exercises. “It Resolving their differences is a prerequisite of E.U.

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Automotive Logistics

AUGUST 14, 2018

That would make it more expensive to ship vehicles and the question was where that cost would be absorbed because shipment costs were not something the customer cared about. vehicles each), while Japan accounts for 20%, or about 4.5m. It is an academic exercise to speculate …but there are some big dollars at stake here.”.

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