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Know Your Supply Chain KPIs – Procurement

Logistics Bureau

Of course, the consequences, and their seriousness, will depend on the criticality of the product, but availability challenges are never desirable. One way to get a handle on this is to measure their track record of product availability.

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Key Factors to Consider When Planning and Designing Warehouses

Logistics Bureau

Of course, it would be possible to write an entire book on this particular subject, so for the sake of keeping this article relatively brief, I’ll stick to a short explanation of crucial factors to consider when planning a warehouse network (even if it is a network of one). Think About Inbound Too. Where are your suppliers located?

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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. If an honest assessment points more to the latter, now is a good time to course correct. However, a bigger headache is created when people take exception to the way you communicate with them and start exercising their privacy rights. Technology can help.

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Don’t Let Your RFT be a 3PL Solution Designer’s Nightmare

Logistics Bureau

Selecting the right 3PL is no simple exercise, yet it’s one that’s all too often subject to shortcuts, a dearth of detail, and overly compressed timelines. Of course nothing is wrong at all if tables like this are supported by files containing data at a much more granular level. If Only There Were More Good Tenders.

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Supply Chain & Logistics Education: Ask the Professors

The Logistics Academy

Darren Prokop, University of Alaska Anchorage (UAA): As in the academic world in general, there is a trend to online course delivery. We also provide frameworks for effective interactions with others in courses such as purchasing, negotiation, professional selling, and team-based assignments. It is also an exercise in trade-offs.

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5 Mini Case Studies: Successful Supply Chain Cost Reduction and Management

Logistics Bureau

The company grew substantially over the course of two decades, with a considerable proportion of that growth achieved by way of acquisitions. As a result of the decentralised environment, in which inbound logistics and transport management were separate operational fields, there was insufficient transparency in the supply chain.

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Transportation’s Tricky Balancing Act

247 Customs Broker

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. Thus, the choice of scale is a strategic exercise because it involves a forecast of what market conditions are expected to be over the short run interim. It’s certainly a good question for investors to ask.