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Supply Chain Design Crosses the Chasm

Logistics Viewpoints

Pop up warehouses, micro fulfillment centers, and warehousing-on-demand are all examples of how the nodes are becoming increasingly dynamic. Design can help test such ideas before implementing changes to the master data. This is leading these organizations to move from Design being an episodic activity to a continuous process.

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5 Recommendations towards a Resilient S&OP

Logistics Viewpoints

As product flows rapidly shifted and hard baked assumptions about lead times and sourcing locations were put to test, users across many organizations bypassed their planning systems and turned to excel sheets, internal data science teams or non-traditional supply chain vendors who could deliver AI based solutions at a faster turn.

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Energy and Labour Costs: 2 Top Warehousing Challenges in 2023

Logistics Bureau

For example, could some areas of your warehouse be adapted via racking optimisation to store higher inventory volumes? A warehouse benchmarking exercise is an excellent way to start the quest for improvement opportunities. For example, you could reduce human labour by deploying robotic equipment or other forms of direct automation.

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Warehouse Product Slotting: The Ultimate Guide

Logistics Bureau

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. Slotting Increases Replenishment Efficiency. Productivity improvements in picking, replenishment, and put-away.

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A Good Diet for Truck Drivers

Trinity Logistics

For example, the life expectancy of truck drivers is 16 years less than those of other working professions. 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.

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6 Toyota Experts Share How They Apply Lean Management Principles

Conger

When collecting data to solve a problem, we ask “why” over and over until we believe we have arrived at the root cause. Robert gives three specific examples of how they’ve used Toyota Lean Management in their parts department. It was difficult to stock and exercise first-in first-out rules. Asking Why in Lean Management.

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Supply Chain Management:A New Lens for Supply Chain Roadmaps

Infosys Supply Chain Management

Cloud & Big Data. Let us take an initiative such as Inventory Optimization as an example. The resulting solution set focuses on master data management, demand planning and replenishment management systems, and the sequence in which they must be implemented. Business Process Outsourcing. Customer Service. Distribution.