Remove Course Remove Groups Remove Industry Remove Outbound
article thumbnail

Industry View: DCs Rise to Meet Unprecedented Challenges

Logistics Business Magazine

Pressing needs and panic buying have created the equivalent to peak season demand in many industries. Of course, businesses normally know when their peak season will occur and they plan for it. With a normal peak, large groups of employees are coordinated and trained all at one time.

Meeting 38
article thumbnail

KPIs to assist manufacturers and distributors with supply chain challenges

SYSPRO Smarter ERP

Industries experienced severe operational and financial consequences with issues like supply shortages, supply and demand surges, inventory shortfalls and reduced productivity. Another methodology is the Porter’s Value Chain Framework, which comprises of inbound logistics, operations, outbound logistics, sales, and service.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

Trending Sources

article thumbnail

Hanging in the balance

Automotive Logistics

The big questions now are whether the current downward trend will last and if new approaches in the outbound logistics segment can help support the domestic finished vehicle industry. . up on the previous year, according to the Polish Automotive Industry Association. In 2017, Poland produced 689,700 finished vehicles, 1.2%

article thumbnail

CBRE research makes the case for continued U.S. industrial real estate growth in 2018

247 Customs Broker

When sizing up the state of the industrial real estate market, which has been moving in the right direction for an extended period and spurred on in large due to e-commerce activity, the sector’s future continues to look bright in 2018, according to research issued today by industrial real estate firm CBRE. In its 2018 U.S.

article thumbnail

This Week in Logistics News (July 3 – 9)

Logistics Viewpoints

During a normal Olympics, millions of spectators flock to venues to watch over 300 events unfold over the course of two-plus weeks. chief executive of Bassett Furniture Industries highlighted just how bad the problem has become. However, this year, like most everything during Covid, will be different. Rob Spilman Jr.,

article thumbnail

Retail disruption and K-shaped recovery highlight importance of freight data

FreightWaves SONAR

The pandemic has sent the retail industry on a K-shaped trajectory — the final straw that has sent many retail chains into bankruptcy while also contributing to a surge in sales for many of the leading chains. As disorienting as the past year and a half have been for everyone, few industries have experienced as much upheaval as retail. .

article thumbnail

Dematic AGVs optimise new DC

Logistics Business Magazine

Toll Group has implemented Dematic Automated Guided Vehicles (AGVs) at Mars Wrigley’s new national distribution centre in Melbourne, Australia. Toll Group is a leading Australian transportation and logistics (T&L) company, with operations in road, rail, sea, air transportation, and warehousing. Shift to automated operations.