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Energy and Labour Costs: 2 Top Warehousing Challenges in 2023

Logistics Bureau

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. A warehouse benchmarking exercise is an excellent way to start the quest for improvement opportunities.

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A Good Diet for Truck Drivers

Trinity Logistics

Of course, you don’t have to give those kinds of foods up completely; just reduce your intake of them. It replenishes your supply of glucose to boost your energy and alertness in the short term while also helping with weight management and reducing your risk of type 2 diabetes and heart disease in the long term. Does it love me?

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Warehouse Product Slotting: The Ultimate Guide

Logistics Bureau

Of course, as this is an ultimate guide to product slotting, it would only be fitting to leave you with a statement about the cost benefits if it includes an explanation of how they come about. Slotting Increases Replenishment Efficiency. Productivity improvements in picking, replenishment, and put-away. Pretty good, right?

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Happy New Year: Here’s the 7 things shippers need to know about the Q1 2021 freight market

FLS Transport

Inventory replenishment will continue well into 2021. It will be all-hands-on-deck as the greater economy, industrial, manufacturing, and housing businesses all fire back up and that pent-up demand and idle cap-ex are exercised. (2) Of course, the annual RFP has been a staple of the industry for 25 years.

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

Logistics Bureau

The added benefit of working with such a partner is that because they collect performance data from hundreds of companies, they can help you choose the most appropriate key performance indicators to use in your benchmarking exercise. Collaborative planning, forecasting, and replenishment (CPFR). Lean supply chain practices.

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

Logistics Bureau

The company was replenishing dealers’ inventory on a weekly basis, by direct shipment and cross-docking operations, from source warehouses located near Deere & Company’s manufacturing facilities. Of course, the above case studies are merely summaries of the changes these high-profile brands made to their supply chains.

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

Logistics in War

Of course we expect our people to be flexible, to ‘improvise, adapt and overcome’, and they did this magnificently. The OVP ‘…is the period immediately following deployment during which forces must maintain self-sufficiency until the logistic resupply system is in place to conduct replenishment.’