Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Within this discipline, one of the toughest challenges is how to get visibility to problems arising across the extended supply network. In a conversation with Everstream’s chief data officer, the executive told this writer that the company was using artificial intelligence (AI) and Big Data to solve this n-tier problem.

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Conger

JULY 20, 2020

Chapter 4: How to Pass Your Forklift Certification Test With Flying Colors. How to Decide If the ‘Operator’s Life’ Is Right for You. Chapter 6: How to Get a Job as a Forklift Driver. Part I: How to Get a Forklift License. How to construct, transport, stack, and unstack loads. Hands-on training and evaluation.

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Ship Monk

AUGUST 2, 2023

A product category like apparel, for example, has too many subcategories to be considered a niche. Whether you’re an e-tailer that sells a variety of brands, or a startup brand trying to make a name for itself, your niche will help you figure out how to present yourself to the world (and what parts of the world you can safely ignore).

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Logistics Bureau

APRIL 4, 2022

At Logistics Bureau, we capture, analyse, and exploit freight benchmarking data to help us when we provide freight contract negotiation services for our clients. How Can Your Business Benefit from Freight Benchmarking? Freight Benchmarking: How to Do it Right. 2: Take Care in Identifying the KPIs to Use.

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Logistics Bureau

AUGUST 1, 2022

Often, in our experience, the problem is a human one… It’s not the data, not the process, not the technology, or the strategy, but the people. Pundits typically emphasize data and digital technology when proselytising for the S&OP concept. But what makes it so challenging to implement S&OP successfully? The Demand Planner.

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Logistics Bureau

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

How to Improve Lighting Control It’s common for warehouse spaces to sit under artificial lighting even when or where it’s not strictly necessary. For example, could some areas of your warehouse be adapted via racking optimisation to store higher inventory volumes?

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GoShip Blog

MARCH 21, 2023

How to Create an Effective Inbound Freight Management Strategy To ensure that your inbound freight systems are seamless and efficient, you will have to pour time and energy into implementing the new processes into your business. Exercise patience when asking freight providers to take on new lanes. Communicate in a timely manner.

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FourKites

JANUARY 7, 2021

The COVID pandemic may have been an extreme example of what can go wrong, but it also underscored the importance of planning and decision-making in the event of sudden disruptions that upend the normal working of the complicated modern supply chain apparatus. How to Create an Agile Supply Chain Model.

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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. Example: Information collected during the review might include the learner’s opinion on the effectiveness of the training and the impact of the training on the employee’s job performance.

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Logistics Bureau

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Bundling/Upselling Opportunities For example, some of your products and/or services might have price structures that complement one another, creating opportunities for bundling or upselling. That’s far easier to do with solid data to inform you and your customer. In short, you can’t. I can think of a few more.

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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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Conger

JULY 28, 2022

How to Measure Warehouse Safety. How Safe Are Warehouses? How to Measure Warehouse Safety. Otherwise, how will you know if things got better, worse, or stayed the same? The downside is that it's a "lagging indicator," which means the changes you make won’t be reflected immediately in the data. Let’s dive in!

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Logistics Bureau

MARCH 3, 2019

For example, if speedy delivery is a part of your service strategy (which is often the case in today’s on-demand environment), you will either need to locate your warehouses close to customers, or close to the facilities of your preferred carriers. For example, we need to know if we can get to the required level of packaging unit.

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Logistics Bureau

JULY 18, 2022

For example, you don’t want to assume that a single logistics strategy and service approach will meet all your customers’ needs. It may do, but how do you know? Then, you can analyse your current supply chain capabilities using the research results and your data concerning customer needs. Delivery service levels.

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Logistics Marketing Advisors

JUNE 20, 2018

Those letters are short for General Data Protection Regulation – a law created by the European Union (EU) to give its citizens the ability to protect their personal data and online privacy. This means, for example, no pre-selected checkboxes on forms. Now, let’s address the letter versus the spirit of the law using an example.

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Automotive Logistics

APRIL 15, 2019

Many early examples have focused on warehouse management and product picking, but, as the technology improves and the range of products on the market increases, there is some evidence that the use of this technology could go much further. . Simon Woodward, head of accelerated innovation and digitalisation, DHL Supply Chain UK and Ireland.

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The Logistics Academy

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

For example, as online sales reach a record high, B2C service provider Jet.com uses some creative logistics concepts to bring value to customers. Another trend is learning how to deal with the avalanche of data that supply chain managers have at their fingertips. They must know which data deserves priority for a given problem.

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Logistics Bureau

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Slotting a warehouse product is the same, for example, as placing your umbrella close to your front door at home, so it’s easy to pick it up and run when it’s raining, and you’re late for work. It also stands to reason that when you undertake a slotting exercise, you should think about it from the perspective of these activities.

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GlobalTranz

JUNE 22, 2016

And in doing so, he provides a perfect example of the power of disruptive innovation. Exercises to improve dribbling skills to imitate Curry’s will become common. And now Curry has done the same, showing how quickly disruptive innovation can elevate a player or a company to the top.

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WorkWave

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

From engaging with potential clients face to face to providing a tangible example of your product, learning how to sell door to door is a great skill to hone. . Sales-enabling technology helps track information like past customer information, purchasing reports, and client retention data.

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Sabinext

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

London, for example, accounts for 32 % of the UK’s national GDP produced by only 23 % of the population. They need skilled and ongoing maintenance, and as the data above shows, the stakes are too high for them to fail to support their millions of inhabitants and thousands of businesses, as well as their country’s economic health.

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Conger

MAY 6, 2019

Problem ownership, therefore, is how we empower our team to get decisions made and create the possibility for meaningful change.". When collecting data to solve a problem, we ask “why” over and over until we believe we have arrived at the root cause. It was difficult to stock and exercise first-in first-out rules.

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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 Business Magazine

DECEMBER 11, 2022

For example, a big-box retailer that started to build out its pickup services, it delivery services, and so on, so that when the world pivoted, and stores were closed, but people still wanted this retailer’s products, it already had all of that investment there. The proliferation of data will change the scope and role of demand forecasting.

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Conger

MAY 6, 2019

Problem ownership, therefore, is how we empower our team to get decisions made and create the possibility for meaningful change.". When collecting data to solve a problem, we ask “why” over and over until we believe we have arrived at the root cause. It was difficult to stock and exercise first-in first-out rules.

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Logistics Bureau

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Too much leads to resources being monopolised on gathering tons of data and a subsequent risk of “paralysis by analysis” Cost to Serve (CTS) is an approach that helps you avoid both extremes. If profits start to decline afterwards, your CTS data can offer valuable information about what changed and how to get back on track.

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Logistics Bureau

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

For example, it either makes sense to outsource logistics activity to a 3PL, or it makes more sense to keep it in-house. For example, outsourcing can seem like a potential cure for obfuscated logistics costs , given that lack of cost transparency is a common issue for organisations that manage logistics internally.

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Automotive Logistics

MAY 24, 2018

Internal guidelines spell out how to address risks and test fixes. Jarvis doesn’t just tell you the issue, it tells you how to remediate it, where it is and gets everything ready for the supplier,” Boulton adds. If they’ve been riding on the system thinking it’s going to remain a trust exercise forever, that has now changed.”.

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Conger

JANUARY 7, 2022

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. How to Calculate the Capacity of Your Forklift. We’ll discuss this in more detail in the section How to Maintain Forklift Stability.

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Talking Logistics

JANUARY 11, 2019

As reported by Reuters, “Amazon could build a stake of almost a third in warehouse robotics firm Balyo in the next seven years…Under the terms of the deal, Amazon will receive free stock warrants representing up to 29 percent of Balyo’s capital which it can exercise depending on orders of the company’s products.

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Logistics Business Magazine

MAY 5, 2020

Creating supply chain resilience is a holistic exercise that involves more than just a few savvy logistics people. As mentioned, this should not be an exercise limited to supply chain professionals. For example, how vulnerable is the manufacturing location when it comes to labour regulations, corruption, or flooding?

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GlobalTranz

JANUARY 21, 2015

The manufacturer has access to the distributor’s inventory data and is responsible for generating purchase orders. Vendor Managed Inventory Model : The manufacturer receives electronic data ( usually via EDI or the Internet) that tells him the distributor’s sales and stock levels. The distributor maintains the inventory plan.

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Automotive Logistics

AUGUST 14, 2018

From a purely automotive perspective, the US vehicle handling ports exported 4m vehicles last year and imported twice that number, according to data from analyst PwC. According to GE Transportation, the system integrates data from across the port to better align people and resources and more efficiently move cargo through it.

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