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Supply Chain Design: A Tool to Help Maximize Value

Logistics Viewpoints

Let’s replace “people” with “customer orders”, “family members” with “SKUs” and “housing” with “distribution locations” and you have the components of a common supply chain design problem. Do we have a demand forecasting tool in place and, if so, how good is that forecast? First comes the data and how well we understand it.

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VSM: A powerful tool to analyse process flows and logistics management of a product.

Logistics at MPEPS at UPV

Value Stream Mapping (VSM) is one of the fundamental tools of the Lean Manufacturing methodology. In this post I will explain the importance of this tool and the basic steps to elaborate a VSM by yourselves. Value Stream Mapping is a very powerful tool that allows us to understand and optimise our entire process.

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Seven Theses on Ergonomics in Logistics

Logistics Business Magazine

KG and talks about ergonomics in logistics and the distribution centre. Here, WITRON was one of the pioneers in the industry, as we have been working intensively for more than 20 years on how to minimize the lifting and carrying of heavy loads for employees in the distribution centre. Technical” ergonomics is important.

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What Shipping Analytics Tools Should Freight Market Participants Have in Their Freight Stack?

FreightWaves SONAR

Shipping analytics tools shine a light on the value of informed freight management. Freight market participants need these top shipping analytics tools in their freight stack. Shipping status tools to track freight. Tracking shipment status is a core function of advanced shipping analytics tools. Download the White Paper.

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Supply Chain Shifts: Elastic Logistics Will Define Supply Chains in 2024

MTS Logistics

Logistics companies are leading a shift towards elastic logistics in a world where supply networks are becoming more intricate and uncertain. Elastic logistics is becoming a shining example of efficiency and cost savings due to its capacity to dynamically react to changing demand by expanding or reducing operations.

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Inventory Management vs. Warehouse Management

The Logistics of Logistics

So, as an example, the IMS tracks and reports that there are 30 widgets in Warehouse A, 25 in Warehouse B, 48 in Manufacturing Plant A, and so on. First, as mentioned above, a WMS tracks inventory by location in real-time inside a distribution center or manufacturing warehouse.

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The Long and Short of Designing a Distribution Network

Logistics Bureau

I’ve noticed a trend in recent years in that when businesses want to check their distribution networks or design a distribution network , they immediately jump into loads and loads of detail. We did it all on spreadsheets in the early days because there were no specialist tools around. Specialist Tools.